EP #273 Hard Skills (Not) vs. Soft Skills
Why do we make hard skills and soft skills battle each other for attention?
It’s dumb. They’re both important.
The problem is, they are more fluid than we assume. Your hard skills can improve or get worse and your soft skills will need to change with different relationships.
There is no perfect way to train either of them but the best teams know how to use them to build something significant.
I wanted to invest some time in the process teams and leaders need to work through to help their people use each of these.
Do this well and you’ll find an incredible generous culture that attracts top talent and loyal customers.
Have a skilled rest of your week.📈
What You'll Learn in Today's Episode:
What are hard skills
What are soft skills
Why we all have both
Why you need to harmonize them
How to help a team to use them well
Why you can’t skip over hard skills in generous culture
How there is no exact timing of the benefits of either hard or soft skills
Why it’s easy for one person to identify they need both types of skills
Why it’s more of a challenge for teams
How it’s good to have a general set of soft skills and a specific set of hard skills
About examples of implementing each type of skills
How a leader of a large organization needs to implement skills
How hard skills and soft skills create attraction and more opportunities
About the positive loop of these skills
Quotes Worth Sharing:
“Are your skills hard or soft?” - Bob DePasquale
“What are the specific things you can touch and feel?” - Bob DePasquale speaking about hard skills
“These are the things that help you interact with other people.” - Bob DePasquale speaking about soft skills
“We should affirm each other.” - Bob DePasquale
“We don’t want to go so far in the other direction that we make it seem like the other thing doesn’t matter.” - Bob DePasquale
“Always believe that both are important.” - Bob DePasquale speaking about hard and soft skills
“You know I hate perks.” - Bob DePasquale
“You have to be able to find people who want to build their skills no matter what they are.” - Bob DePasquale
“You can expect everyone to have all of the soft skills.” - Bob DePasquale
“You are the example for all of the people.” - Bob DePasquale
“Hard skills and soft skills should not be a battle.” - Bob DePasquale
Resources from Today’s Episode:
episode about no man being self-made - EP #100: Why You Can’t Be Self Made with Jason Peterson
episode about leading from the edge - EP #67: What’s Your Leadership Style? with Rick Chromey
My Book - Personal Finance in a Public World
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