Soft Skills are key to success and well-being. Yet, the recognition of soft skills, as a key driver of performance, well-being, and development, has lagged. The key challenge in soft skills is that they are seldom paid as much importance as needed and therefore, much focus is given to domain or technical skills, comparatively. But why do soft skills lag in recognition and investments? Here are some reasons:
A blog on human capital development including on education, learning and development related to personal, professional and social outcomes across contexts such as individual and institutional, public, private and social sector, formal and informal, education and work, policy and implementation, etc. Some of the topics include school and higher education, technical and vocational training, entrepreneurship, leadership, alternative education and development, etc.