Author: Dr. Sara Brown, Signum Path Instructor There is a crisis in the workplace. You may not have noticed it yet, but it is there, it is growing, and it is affecting the most important resource you have: your workforce. To what am I referring? It is the significant deficit Read more…
Most companies seem to understand that their employees need to improve their foundational skills, but many organizations don’t seem to have a clue of how to provide the essential training required to fulfill that need. In reading articles about so-called soft skills, Dr. Corey Olsen noticed three common themes that Read more…
If foundational skills are so important, why is there a skills gap? Shouldn’t employers be looking for these skills right off the bat? And why are recruiters and HR departments noticing that prospective hires lack the skills that are so important in their jobs? In this third video in the Read more…
In this second video of the Signum Path series, Dr. Corey Olsen discusses another discrepancy in how the business world talks about foundational skills – things like critical thinking, communication, and emotional intelligence. Such skills have come to be known as “soft skills,” with the implication that they are vague, Read more…
There’s a relationship between humanities education and the most valuable skills being sought by employers today. Hear Dr. Corey Olsen’s thoughts on how humanities can help meed business needs.