Global Soft Skills Education Revolution
Soft Skills are emerging as the single most critical need in education and for workers and corporations. This is true no matter where a person is or what a person does. Soft Skills are critical skills. These soft skills include creativity, collaboration, leadership, emotional intelligence, global thinking, cross boundary team building, critical thinking, and whole system design. Learning these makes the critical difference is the competition for existing jobs, which is getting more and more severe. Increasingly, companies choose employees on the basis of Soft Skills. Soft Skills make the difference in interviews and job promotion. In the United States, a recent study indicated that 93% of employees feel that Soft Skills are more important than Hard Skills. Employees have a 94% chance of being promoted if they demonstrate Soft skills. In terms of job success, 84% comes from Soft skills.