How Can I Teach Soft Skills to Better Prepare Students for the Workplace?

Employers demand a talent pool armed with both hard and soft skills. Sadly, the focus on development of the soft skills ends somewhere between kindergarten and college. This Magna 20-Minute Mentor discusses core power skills which include: teamwork, communication, positive attitude, critical thinking, professionalism, and time management. You’ll also learn a four phase approach to integrating soft-skill education into a curriculum and how to design related activities to unleash the full potential of your students.

Purchase the How Can I Teach Soft Skills to Better Prepare Students for the Workplace? 20-Minute Mentor program, presented by Erik Christensen. Gain a clear understanding of the difference between hard skills and soft skills.

Learning Goals

After this program, participants will be able to:

• Have an increased awareness of the need to integrate soft skills into the curriculum
• Learn how to infuse curriculum with activities that focus on developing soft skills but complement the hard skills they are teaching in the class
• Be able to consider ways to integrate soft skill development directly into the curriculum, develop a new, standalone course, or offer as continuing workforce education (CWE) program offering

Topics Covered

What are Soft Skills?

• Definition and examples
• Other names for soft skills
• Difference between soft and hard skills

Why teach Soft Skills?

• Disconnect between students and employer expectations
• Importance employers attribute to soft skills
• What employers are looking for

How to teach Soft Skills:

• Learning Content
• Implementation Options
• Examples of teaching soft skills: Initial discussion, activity, conclusion, and extension activity (assessment)

Audience

This program will benefit:

• Faculty
• Instructional Designers
• Academic Deans

Product Code: PM19MA