Study skills fall into the category of “soft skills,” as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration. Soft skills are the problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills that a person employs. They are perhaps best defined as the opposite of “hard skills,” which are the technical skills required to complete a job.
The Carnegie Mellon Foundation and Stanford Research Institute surveyed Fortune 500 CEOs, identifying the most critical skills. They concluded that 75% of long-term career success depends on soft skills, such as: the ability to process and organize new information, solve problems, think critically, manage time and deadlines, communicate effectively with others, etc. Only 25% of long-term success, however, depends on technical “content” knowledge. softskills.com |
Howard Gardner:
Need to integrate additional skills to create a whole person:
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Approach to adding additional skills :
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Elements of our program (PDF)
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Corporate overview plus report of needs by CEO's ... IBM |