The right skills

Hard skills:

Hard skills or technical skills can be defined teachable and tangible skills to get and keep a job in the labor market. Simply saying, if you know how to do your job in your profession it means you have valuable hard skills.

Soft Skills

Soft skills are the complete collection of our social, communication, and self-management behaviors. These are the skills that enable us to work effectively and “fit in” at the workplace. Examples of soft skills are: demonstrating integrity and ethical behavior; being motivated and having a positive attitude; and critically analyzing information.

Emotional intelligence

Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to the ability to perceive, control and evaluate emotions. Some researchers suggest that emotional intelligence can be learned and strengthened, while others claim it is an inborn characteristic.

The Four Branches of Emotional Intelligence:

1. Perceiving Emotions: The first step in understanding emotions is to accurately perceive them. In many cases, this might involve understanding nonverbal signals such as body language and facial expressions.
2. Understanding Emotions: The emotions that we perceive can carry a wide variety of meanings. If someone is expressing angry emotions, the observer must interpret the cause of their anger and what it might mean
3. Managing Emotions: The ability to manage emotions effectively is a key part of emotional intelligence. Control emotions, responding appropriately and responding to the emotions of others are all important aspect of emotional management.
4. Using Emotions: The next step involves using emotions to promote thinking and cognitive activity. Emotions help prioritize what we pay attention and react to; we respond emotionally to things that garner our attention.

“Creatives” and “suits”

• Creatives and artists “create objects, emotional reactions, expressions, and thoughts through books, paintings, music, film, performances and programs”.
• Suits, on the other hand, are responsible for careful allocation of the organization’s resources to achieve optimal return on investment.

The War for Talent

The continuous search for the best and brightest employees to recruit and retain.

Companies and talent management assessment

1. What Are Talent Assessments?

Also called pre-employment tests or employment screening tests, are used to help employers identify candidates that will be a good fit for jobs at their company.

2. The Talent Assessment process comprises five key stages :

• Establish the Leadership Model for the organization,
• Assessment of Individual Capability & Potential where we implement the assessment process
• Group Talent Mapping
• Individual Development Planning (IDP)
• Ongoing Process of Review & Monitoring