Tag: Soft Skills

Cat Links All Articles, Classroom Strategies, Soft Skills, Volume 09

Soft Skills On Demand: How Higher Education Can PrepareStudents To Succeed In The Marketplace

Posted on Shannon Fletcher & Kristen R. V. Thornton

Abstract Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, business organizations have quickly adapted so that employees can work remotely, which has in turn accelerated the value employers place on particular soft skills employees exhibit – namely Agency, Adaptability, and Curiosity. This study explores how these three soft skills show up in the

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Cat Links All Articles, Curriculum, Soft Skills, Volume 08

Beyond the Rhetoric: Assessing the Value of Formal Debate Inclusion in Sports Management Curriculum

Posted on Jonathan Rosenberg

Abstract There is an abundance of research found in the literature regarding student career preparation that focuses on the increasing emphasis on soft skills by future employers (Dabke, 2015; Petrone, 2018; Majid et.al., 2019). A study by Jones et al., 2019, found that soft skills account for 85% of career

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