During the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, everyone seemed to be talking about learning a new skill. Hays recently published the results of their survey which found that the majority of professional (98%) said they would use an online training platform to develop their technical or soft skills.
On the blog, we talk a lot about skills development and using your career journal to help develop your skills and commit to your continuing professional development.
The survey found that the soft skills that professionals most wanted to develop included:
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Problem-Solving
- People Management
- Negotiation
- Judgement and Decision Making
- Emotional Intelligence
- Time Management
- Creativity
- Co-ordinating with others
- Ability to Learn
- Flexibility and Adaptability
- External Stakeholder Management
- Internal Stakeholder Management
- Service orientation.
Over the coming months, we will look to develop our prompts in some of these areas. In the meantime, you can click on the links for more content.