Bridging the Soft Skills Gap How to Teach the Missing Basics to the New Hybrid Workforce

Nurture and develop well-rounded team players by focusing on soft skills development

People entering the professional world are better educated than ever before. Their technical skills are often off-the-charts, helping them make short work of even the most challenging tasks. At the same time, however, many of these very same people lack soft skills we’ve often taken for granted.

In the newly revised second edition of Bridging the Soft Skills Gap: How to Teach the Missing Basics to the New Hybrid Workforce, veteran business advisor, speaker, and consultant Bruce Tulgan delivers a practical and incisive roadmap to developing crucial professionalism, critical thinking, and teamwork skills. You’ll also find:

• A collection of 92 instructive lesson plans designed to break soft skills down into their component parts and teach them one manageable piece at a time
• An exploration of the soft skills gap, including what it means and how its impact on your organization will be felt
• Explanations of why you can’t hire your way around a soft skills gap

An essential leadership handbook for executives, managers, and other business leaders, Bridging the Soft Skills Gap is a must-read resource for human resources professionals, team leaders, and front-line employees who deal with promising, but unpolished, talent.

BRUCE TULGAN is a sought-after speaker, leader, and advisor to businesses and executives around the world. He is the Founder of RainmakerThinking, Inc., which works with top companies on improving their management practices, as well as the bestselling author of It’s Okay to be the Boss, Managing Generation X, and Not Everyone Gets a Trophy.

PART ONE:

THE SOFT SKILLS GAP

PROLOGUE

Meet the Workforce of the Future

CHAPTER ONE

The Soft Skills Gap

CHAPTER TWO:

You Can’t Hire Your Way Around the Soft Skills Gap

CHAPTER THREE

Unlocking the Power of Soft Skills

PART TWO:

HOW TO TEACH THE MISSING BASICS TO TODAY’S WORKFORCE

CHAPTER FOUR

Teaching the Missing Basics of Professionalism

CHAPTER FIVE

Teaching the Missing Basics of Critical Thinking

CHAPTER SIX

Teaching the Missing Basics of Teamwork

LESSON PLAN LIST; 92 LESSON PLANS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Index

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