Soft Skills - Ask a Wharton MBA
Develop Soft Skills – Work Smart & Live More
Why am I here on earth? What makes me truly happy in life? How do I find my passion? I don’t know about you, but I am asking myself these questions more and more often as I get older. There is so much societal pressure to make more money, get that promotion faster, and show off the fancy car/house we were able to buy. Yet, there always seems to be a disconnect between what we can achieve and our happiness. ...
With my new job, I have had many opportunities to learn useful and simple presentation tips. In the last 3 months, I attended two conferences and three Town Hall presentations led by senior leaders. Each one was memorable in its own way. In this article, I summarized four simple presentation tips I learned from watching how these leaders engaged my attention during their presentations. ...
It is critical to your mental and physical health to know How to Stop Thinking about Work. This post is written for my benefit and yours, if you find yourself in a similar situation.
During the last six weeks, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about work. I love my new job, and theoretically I am only working about 40 hours a week, 8:30 am to about 5:30pm, Monday through Friday. I don’t take my computer home, and I only look at my work phone at home to check on my meeting schedule for the next day. ...
Stanford Professor Carol Dweck developed this concept in her 2006 book – Mindset – The New Psychology for Success. In there, she provides the following Fixed Mindset and Growth Mindset definitions:
“In a fixed mindset, students believe that their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits. They have a certain amount and that’s that, and then their goal becomes to look smart all the time and never look dumb. In a growth mindset, students understand that their talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching and persistence. They don’t necessarily think that everyone’s the same or anyone can be Einstein, but they that believe everyone can get smarter if they work at it.” ...
So you think you are qualified for a particular job, fit to lead a team or the right candidate for a promotion, just because you have extensive experience or highly developed technical skills? Well, apart from these elements for professional success, one needs to also have great soft skills, also commonly known as “people skills.” ...
A month ago, every morning at 5 AM, I found myself consumed by worry. As the head of a newly created digital experience strategy team, I inherited two team members to help build our capabilities. Three weeks in, I realized they both had significant gaps in skill, experience, and motivation necessary to produce the high-quality output I envision. ...
What skill does every senior executive has in common?
So what is the one skill that every successful senior executive has? Listen to this 9 minute candidate conversation with Helena Light to find out. I was even surprised at what she said and how executives practiced this skill every day. You can also read the Audio Transcription of Our Conversation below ...