Soft Skills Insights
We unpack behavior science, habit research, and academic research to provide practical insight into how to upgrade your people's critical thinking, communication, people management, and time management skills
Critical thinking ranks among the most in-demand skills for job candidates and leads to better life and job outcomes.
However, both educational institutions and employers have found it challenging ...
What if you could tell if you or a colleague were going to burn out a full year before it was to happen?
For companies and their leaders, the value would be tremendous. Burnout among physicians alone...
Like many of my classmates, shortly after college, I joined the ranks of a top strategy and management consulting firm. I knew I was signing up for long hours.
But the reality of that didnât really s...
By now, weâve all been fairly warned of the increasing prevalence and consequences of burnout, but actively preventing it isnât easy. You first must know what causes it. On this front, most of what
...When the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its definition of burnout in late May to label it as a âsyndrome,â it made official what millions already knew by experience: Burnout is real, debilita...
Productive people work faster than their peers, constantly finding shortcuts to get work done in less time than their peers. Thatâs what I thought when I started my career at a management consulting f...
In January 2017, I decided I would leave my job at a Boston-based management consulting firm to start a company in the small, northern California city of Redding that I had moved to six months earlier...
If youâve been reading business publications like this Inc. or Harvard Business Review, you likely have a high value for creativity and innovation. You probably spend a lot of time on idea generationâ...
When we think of the greatest minds, we tend to default to those who see into the future and come up with history-changing ideas out of thin air. These are the people who possess unusual levels of cre...
Ranking number two on the World Economic Forumâs list of top skills required for the high-paying jobs of 2020 is critical thinking. And critical thinking is only beat by complex problem-solving, which...
Founder Matt Plummer was featured in this extensive report by Hubstaff, which provides a time-tracking app. Below is the selection from Matt found in the âExperience Well Beingâ section of the report....
When coaching or training people on how to reach their full potential at work, itâs easy for me to get them riled up in less than a minute: tell them they should have less than 3 email folders.
While...
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