Greatest Hits: Why We Need to Start Calling Soft Skills Power Skills Instead

In today´s greatest hits episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast’, host Sheila Boysen - Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter and Talent Development Leader talks about learning and building “Power Skills” and the ways to move further in this direction.

Episode Highlights: 

• When we talk about how we define skills (hard & soft skills), she thinks it helps when we consider it in a way that's opposite.
• Power skills are essential in the world that lays ahead of us in central in the future of the world of work.
• Creative thinking would be another example for being able to come up with unique solutions, or alternatives because that's what drives innovation.
• One of the most interesting new corporate competencies that she wants to touch is actually curiosity.
• Put some intention into continuously developing each of your own power skills.

 3 Key Points:

1. Hard skills change all the time, they're constantly becoming obsolete and they're actually relatively easy to learn.
2. The bottom line is that we need to take these power skills seriously and we need to build ways for people to really learn them.
3. Focus on listening to learn, and not just listening to respond.

 Tweetable Quotes:

• “”You've probably heard the terminology quite often of hard skills versus soft skills.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
• “Specifically, we're starting to see the language change from soft skills, to power skills.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
• “And how does shifting the language to something like power skills, make a difference?” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
• “So this means not only being cooperative, but also displaying strong leadership skills when necessary.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
• “So let's all change this language, let's all focus on how we can actually go about calling these not soft skills, but power skills.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli

Resources Mentioned:

• Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: WebsitePodcast