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A Better Way to Measure Soft Skills
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Use checklists and rubrics for these often ill-defined capacities.
Use checklists and rubrics for these often ill-defined capacities.
Wed Aug 01 2018
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Measuring soft skills can be a bane for some training professionals, because no one knows whether training is effective without measurement. Meanwhile, soft skills are not actually soft—they are simply ill-defined. The process of measuring them, then, begins by defining exactly what you mean by the behaviors, characteristics, or attributes that demonstrate the skill in question.
Measuring soft skills can be a bane for some training professionals, because no one knows whether training is effective without measurement. Meanwhile, soft skills are not actually soft—they are simply ill-defined. The process of measuring them, then, begins by defining exactly what you mean by the behaviors, characteristics, or attributes that demonstrate the skill in question.