soft skills

Welcome to the 'soft-skills' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'soft-skills'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “soft skills”

• What IS Your Risk Management Philosophy?

  
  How to Manage a Camel - Project Management and Recruitment — Authority: 125
  If the content in the headline doesn’t stop you in your tracks, it will definitely do so when inserted into the content of a job interview question instead. When it comes to risk management questions in a job interview, the dilemma posed by the headline is hardly alone. For example: What tools would you ...
  3 days ago

• Projects: It’s About People And Interactions

  
  UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley — Authority: 419
  There is a central theme running through my Project Leadership Thoughts: it is impossible to look at a project as an isolated entity. It’s about people and interactions . And interactions happen throughout the entire social network. Every interaction effects another one. What does this mean for you, as a ...
  1 week ago

• Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #29

  
  Developers 42 — Authority: 104
  Silverlight 4 Beta is out and it has some cool features that could help our development, but we must wait. This article is about how new versions of a platform like Silverlight impact our current and ongoing development and why sometimes you need to wait and sometimes you need to push forward. Project status At ...
  1 week ago

• What I Learned About Personal Branding: Weird Is Good

  
  UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley — Authority: 419
  Yelling “ Self promotion, Baby ” is a little over the top, isn’t it? I love rhetoric. I enjoy Big Stories. Without Too Much Detail. As Too Much Detail ruins a Good Big Story. Although I sometimes say things excited and full of passion (”you need to…”), it’s always an invitation to look at the ...
  1 week ago

• Valley Junction Training | Kempton Park

  
  Search Engine South Africa — Authority: 152
  Valley Junction provides its excellent services to Industry, Mining, Agriculture, Local Government and the Private Sector, and they provide skills training in a variety of fields like management & supervisor development, safety, First Aid and Fire Fighting Training, lifting operator training , soft skills ...
  1 week ago

• Call Centre Training | Zog Training Solutions | Johannesburg

  
  Search Engine South Africa — Authority: 152
  The core business focus of Zog training is skills development and consulting. Excellent customer services and knowing how to communicate well and effectively on the phone are  some of the useful kills you will learn at Zog. They are fully accredited and each company will only benefit  from the highly evolved ...
  1 week ago

• Dear Project Manager: Why Should Anyone Want To Work For You?

  
  UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley — Authority: 419
  Why should people want to work on your project? You know about globalization, you know this makes employees competing with people from all over the world . Have you considered The Other Consequence? That you have to compete with other GLOBAL companies and Project Managers to get good people to staff your projects? ...
  1 week ago

• Marketing: You Hate It. But You Need It.

  
  UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley — Authority: 419
  If your are into software project management, you are into “marketing”. If you are planning to keep on working in (software) projects in the years to come, you better get good at it. It seems to be a dirty word among technical people: “marketing”. But it’s not about selling your soul to the devil. It’s ...
  1 week ago

• Does Transparency Lead To More Ethical Behavior?

  
  UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley — Authority: 419
  We are working with people from all over the world. Globalization goes together with an increase in transparency of reputations. The Internet introduced deadly transparency. With an increase in geographical and cultural distance the aspect of “trust” becomes all important. When people have never met, there are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #28

  
  Developers 42 — Authority: 104
  Todays post is about scaling a team, especially when innovating. Why do you need to scale? Well, thats an obvious question. You cant do everything yourself. Even if youre one of those "cant let it go, so got to do it myself" developers, then still you might have colleagues that actually want to do some work on that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Foggy Weather

  
  UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley — Authority: 419
  Let’s continue to LEAD, albeit backwards…The other day I wrote about Delegation.  Today, let’s focus on Act and Encourage.  Sometimes, a little fog is good for team climate… No matter what you say as a leader, your actions will always say more.   Rapport exists when two people develop a feeling of harmony, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Job Interviews: Ways and Mechanisms to Interview for Success

  
  How to Manage a Camel - Project Management and Recruitment — Authority: 125
  Interviews are the make or break of the job search; No matter how good your CV and career record is to date, the face-to-face (or telephone) interview remains the most important step towards achieving your objective. The old adage that “people buy people” is as true today as it has ever been, so what can you do ...
  4 weeks ago

• Two beautiful examples of ’soft skills’ from two Indian b-schools

  
  PaGaLGuY.com - India's biggest CAT 2009, MBA website — Authority: 424
  Much of the criticism of the MBA degree in its current form revolves around ‘ soft skills ‘, and how b-schools have failed to teach them to MBA students successfully. In that light, here are two examples of thoughtful communication from two b-schools, one from SIMS – Pune and another from ISB – Hyderabad that ...
  4 weeks ago

• Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #27

  
  Developers 42 — Authority: 104
  Its been a while again, but its been a bit of a hectic time. Ive been approached by the good people of silverlightshow.net , who have invited me to write some articles for them, but more on that later. Ive also been struggling with something Ive seen coming, but underestimated, fear of change. Thats what todays post ...
  4 weeks ago

• Speaker Alert: Make Me Laugh – Or Else

  
  The Accidental Communicator — Authority: 402
  Make Your Audiences Laugh And Theyll Remember What You Say Stop. How funny was the last speech that you gave? What – you were talking about how best to diversify a 401k basket of investments in order to incorporate more foreign exchange funds & there’s nothing funny about that? Wrong. You’re not trying ...
  4 weeks ago

• Here’s a Quick Checkup: Where Do You Stand on the Three Elements of Delegation

  
  PMcrunch — Authority: 100
  Whether new or experienced managers, we need to always be mindful of our delegation skills. Most important to remember is that not only can our delegation style change, but the people, tasks, and circumstances can change also. Thus, it is important to periodically ask ourselves "How are my delegation skills right ...
  4 weeks ago

Comments about soft skills