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What are you doing to support your company’s leadership?

Soft skills have become essential in the modern workforce to build solid leaders. If you don’t work on advancing hard or soft skills alike in your organization, you may discover skills gaps that hinder employees from growing into successful leaders. Potential costs to an organization or its people that can result from gaps in soft skills include:

  • Decreased productivity
  • Lower employee retention
  • Lack of innovation

Harvard University, Carnegie Foundation, and Stanford Research Center agree¹ that developing soft skills is essential in today's job market as they account for 85% of one's career achievements. Only 15%, on the other hand, comes from mastering technical abilities. Download our free whitepaper, “A guide for how to develop future leaders in the workplace,” to learn how to help support your leadership team with soft skills such as:

  • Communication
  • Problem-solving
  • Empathy
  • Teamwork
  • ...and more!

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