People Skills: Developing Soft Skills—A Change Management Perspective

Levasseur, Robert E.

doi:10.1287/inte.2013.0703

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“…Soft skills are skills that facilitate relationships between individuals and communities that are developed naturally through personal experience and reflection. Soft skills are recognized as an important attribute in all aspects of life in the 21st century (Levasseur, 2013). This section will continue with the results of the research, by discussing how soft skills are very important to participants, and how they are practiced in the PPG program in Indonesia.…”

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Experiences of Participants in Teacher Professional Education on Obtaining Soft Skills: A Case Study in Indonesia

A.¹,

Suyanto²,

Arifi³

et al. 2021

EUROPEAN J ED RES

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<p style="text-align:justify">Teachers in the constitution in Indonesia are professionals who must meet pedagogical, social, personal, and professional competencies. This qualitative research with a phenomenological approach aims to explore the experiences of the teacher professional education program (PPG) participants in gaining soft skills. The research data were collected through in-depth interviews conducted on fifteen PPG participants consisting of seven females and eight males. The fifteen participants attended PPG in five universities spread out from universities in Central Java, West Java, Yogyakarta Special Region, and Jakarta Special Capital Region. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling. Data analysis was carried out through the horizontalization, texturally, structurally, and essential descriptions stages. The results of this research found that PPG participants received soft skills learning in hidden curriculum patterns so that each participant had an initial understanding and how to get various soft skill understandings. Soft skills obtained by participants during the PPG implementation are self-confidence, collaboration, hard work, respect for culture, patience, wisdom, maturity, mental resilience, humility, responsibility, creative thinking, positive thinking, cooperation, humility, respect for others, and tolerance. This research recommends that soft skills learning at PPG be implemented with a structured curriculum so that participants have better abilities as teachers.</p>

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confidence: 97%

Experiences of Participants in Teacher Professional Education on Obtaining Soft Skills: A Case Study in Indonesia

A.¹,

Suyanto²,

Arifi³

et al. 2021

EUROPEAN J ED RES

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“…The nature of soft skill is explained in the paper (Levasseur, 2013), includes self-awareness, communication, collaboration, and leadership. In the information systems branch are mentioned: interaction with users and clients, work cooperatively in a project team, understand the business environment, be self-directed and proactive, and be able to analyze IS solutions to business problems.…”

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How to Get Management Skill in the Course of Informatics?

Buřita¹

2020

MEST Journal

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The article introduces the content and methods of informatics education respecting a focus on management. Students of the communication and information systems branch are future officers of the Czech Armed Forces. Their main mission will be managing and working with people. This fact and the development of the so-called soft skills in management are taken into consideration in the teaching of informatics-related topics. Gradually, the article deals with individual topics of the course: management, organization and analysis of information sources, knowledge management systems and project management. The use of pedagogical methods is particularly emphasized by independent student work, the development of their creativity and innovativeness. In the literature review, there was not found any similar document with the theme of the paper. In the analyzed articles were discussed the various forms of leadership development and was emphasized the importance of ICT for innovativeness. The management part in the course is focused on management functions, management cycle OODA, and cycle PDCA of processes improving. The organization of the information sources and analysis of the text document is based on the explanation of the information systems development procedure and using Tovek Tools. The part of the course in knowledge management systems and project management is an opportunity for students to work independently in developing their own knowledge system and project planning.

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“…The skills achieved during higher education and used in working life can be divided into hard and soft skills. Hard skills focus on traditional technical expertise such as computational methods and technical problem-solving, while soft skills are a combination of social and interpersonal skills, Sustainability 2018, 10, 2605 3 of 18 personal qualities and career attributes [18,19]. Historically, hard skills have been the necessity for employment, particularly in the engineering field, and as a result, engineering education has focused on ensuring that students gain enough technical and computational competences.…”

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Building a More Sustainable Society? A Case Study on the Role of Sustainable Development in the Education and Early Career of Water and Environmental Engineers

2018

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Engineering education is critical for sustainability, given the key role that engineers have in shaping the development of our society. Yet, engineering studies have traditionally not been driven by sustainability-related knowledge and skills, but focused more on general computational skills and technical problem-solving. This has also been the case in our case study, which focuses on recent water and environmental engineering graduates in Finland. We studied the role that sustainable development has had in their education and early career through an extensive questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The analysis was done in two ways: indirectly by comparing how well the key working life knowledge and skills recognized by the respondents correspond with sustainability-related skills, and directly by studying the graduates’ views towards the sustainable development and their possibilities to advance it in their work. The results show that although sustainability was not at the core of respondents’ studies, their key competencies correspond well with sustainability-related working life skills. The respondents also see that sustainable development has a central role in water and environmental engineering, although it is typically more visible at a strategic rather than a practical level. However, the results also indicate that several early-career engineers have deficient knowledge of sustainable development, and are therefore lacking the ability to fully connect the principles of sustainable development into their own expertise. Overall, the findings suggest that water and environmental engineers with their wide set of competencies have the potential to take on a larger role in building a more sustainable society. To ensure this, engineering education should emphasize the connection between the field and sustainable development and clearly link engineers’ core competencies with the skills required to promote sustainability.

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People Skills: Developing Soft Skills—A Change Management Perspective

Cited by 45 publications

References 13 publications

Experiences of Participants in Teacher Professional Education on Obtaining Soft Skills: A Case Study in Indonesia

Experiences of Participants in Teacher Professional Education on Obtaining Soft Skills: A Case Study in Indonesia

How to Get Management Skill in the Course of Informatics?

Building a More Sustainable Society? A Case Study on the Role of Sustainable Development in the Education and Early Career of Water and Environmental Engineers

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