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Author: jim stedt
Company: The Business SoftSkills Company
Website: businesssoftskills.com
Author Comment / Biography:
Mr. Jim Stedt founded Hartley & Associates in 1984 and is One of the founders and partner of the Business SoftSkills Company Mr. Stedt has authored the following Books: “Talent Balancing - Staffing Your Company for Long Term Success” published by ABC-CLIO /Praeger (Available in both English and Polish), “Re:Organize - Managing Your Computer" (Textbook), “The Micro Computer Dictionary” (Textbook), “Jokes, Quips and Ponderables - 28,027,000 bytes of humor for the technically touched." In addition, Author of scripts for Career Enhancement, Military Edition of Career Enhancement and Train-The-Trainer. Creator of 14 Apple business apps and columnist for Micro Times Magazine. Written articles for numerous business, computer and technology publications Mr. Stedt serves on the following Boards and Committees: Business Education Statewide Advisory Committee for the State of California, California Community Colleges Professional Development Advisory Committee Computer Information Science Advisory Board for Irvine Valley College, Business Program Advisor for Westwood College. He has degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Technology.
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21. Business Soft Skills In High Schools
February 05, 2015
For a long time the business world has been asking colleges, trade schools and universities for graduates that are well versed in soft skills. As time goes by the K-12 educational institutions are now realizing that they need to start soft skills training way before college.
In a recent art...
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22. The Missing Element To Military Transition ~ Part Two Of Two
January 21, 2015
In part one, we covered three of the six rules for the missing element to military transition into the civilian workplace. Her are the final four.
Job behavior rule number three is: Be professional - Whatever your level of employment is, you should always be courteous, mind your manners and...
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23. The Missing Element To Military Transition ~ Part One Of Two
January 13, 2015
We now have thousands of military people making the transition into the civilian workforce and a lot of organizations are assisting them in the switch. Most are doing an excellent job with resume creation and interview skills. But there is one element that is missing from making the transition tot...
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24. Job Readiness Skills Successfully Taught to Intellectually Disabled
December 17, 2014
Job Readiness is defined as the skills that individuals need in order to be productive employees and know what employers expect from them in the workplace. In addition, people trained in these skills know how to interface with peers, management and customers in a professional manner.
Critic...
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25. Hard Statistical Facts About Soft Skills
December 09, 2014
There have been a lot of things written about soft skills, job readiness and being work ready but what are the real hard facts? Some recent studies can reveal the actualfacts through statistics. So let’s look at some of these studies. A recent survey of 810 small- to medium-sized employers sugg...
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26. Should Soft Skills Be Part Of Your Intern Program?
December 04, 2014
If you are an employer with a staff of over 100 employees you probably have an intern program or have entertained the thought of starting a program. Over the years, more and more companies have started these programs and it appears that intern programs are here to stay. If your look at Google, who ...
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27. Survey Proves Soft Skills Improve Hire-ability
November 17, 2014
In a recent survey by World Bank Employer Satisfaction Survey released at the FICCI Higher Education Summit revealed 75% employers are very satisfied with the engineering graduates’ talent that they hired. This is up from 33% in a survey from 2009. So how did this East Indian based undertaking resu...
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28. Power Listening
November 11, 2014
How may times have one of your business colleagues asked you, “Are you listening?” With all of the distractions in the world today, it is very difficult to really listen and in the business world, you must know how to listen. Here are some facts about something we call “Power listening.”
Wh...
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29. Positive Speak: What Is It And How To Use it
November 06, 2014
Positive Speak is defined as just being positive when speaking about business situations. If your boss is giving you a new assignment you should have a positive response, asking key questions. It is important to address the problems to be solved and not the situation that got you there. You shoul...
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30. Soft Skills For Management
October 29, 2014
Most people think that only new grads and transitioning military people need to have soft skills. But management also needs to take stock of their soft skills. In this article we are going to explore four key soft skills that management should always embrace.
The first soft skill is listen...
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