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May 9, 2025

AI-Proof Skills

"By 2030 70% of the skills used in most jobs will change, with AI emerging as a catalyst. The good news? Professionals are not standing in place and are working to keep pace. We've seen a 140% increase in the pace at which LinkedIn members add new s…

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May 9, 2025

The Only Constant is....

"So the big issue is the tactics. Once you get into complex goal-driven behaviors the tactics of habit formation that the scientists have studied, they just don't apply, they don't work. But that's why there's a new habit book every year and people …

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May 9, 2025

Psychology and Agility

"Constraints breed excuses. Limit constraints to what is essential, keeping them clear, concise, and minimal. Encourage people to move freely within these boundaries. Confident in their distributed authority" - Andrew Hobday In this week's…

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March 12, 2025

How to Love the Job You Have

"Every workplace is going to be a little bit annoying all the time. That is a baseline level of acceptance. Some organizations are really annoying, but it's for a small period of time... The challenge is when you have a high level of intensity of em…

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Dec. 29, 2024

End of Year Recap

It's the end of 2024 and this is usually the time we get to review what have we learned and what have we achieved. This week, I want to focus on doing a recap of key lessons learned through the podcast this year.  Artificial Intelligenc…

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Dec. 12, 2024

How to Have a Great Team

“Interpersonal skills have always been important in working successfully in groups within organizations, but these findings indicate they will continue to be important—perhaps even more important—in the electronically connected fut…

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Oct. 17, 2024

Hardcore Soft Skills Lessons: What are Your Attributes?

“Attributes also don't direct our behavior. They inform our behavior. They tell us how we're going to show up to an environment. So for example, my son's levels of perseverance and resilience inform the way he showed up when he was learning th…

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Oct. 3, 2024

Keys to Communicate with Influence

Hope you are having a good beginning of the month. This month Hardcore Soft Skills podcast turns 4 years old, so its a great time to start a new season of the podcast with a new episode next week. In case you have not noticed, I have made some updat…

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Sept. 19, 2024

Communication in Remote Work

"When people are trying to be dominant, they will, they will take up important resources. Okay. So the important resources around us are things like time, volume, not only volume of voice, but volume of space, how much space they take, how much volu…

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Sept. 12, 2024

Giving Feedback is Great, Receiving Feedback Sucks

"Giving feedback is worthless. It's actually not quite worthless. It's worth something for the person who gives it. But study after study shows that basically giving someone else feedback has very minute impact in their behavior. What you want is a …

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