Research

 

 
Here you’ll soft skills inform­a­tion and research, and links to other sources of interest.



This series provides ‘lite-bites’ of evid­ence that demon­strate why soft skills are now essential.

  1. Soft Skills Char­ac­ter­ist­ics: what they are and how BBM treats them
  2. Skills Employ­ers Want: and are they get­ting them?
  3. Skills the Coun­try Needs: which skills, why, and how we rate internationally
  4. Lifelong Learn­ing: why this is import­ant now and how soft skills help
  5. Pro­mot­ing Equal­ity: the part that soft skills play




A selec­tion of research con­cerned with soft skills development:

2002: How to access and man­age cre­ativ­ity in organ­isa­tions / RSA
2003: Learn­ing for the 21st cen­tury/ Part­ner­ship for 21st cen­tury skills
2005: Health, wealth and hap­pi­ness / MORE THAN Busi­ness
2006: Work­ing pro­gress: how to recon­nect young people and organ­isa­tions / Demos
2006: Are they really ready to work? Employ­ers per­spect­ives on the basic know­ledge and applied skills of new entrants to the 21st cen­tury U.S. work­force / The Con­fer­ence Board et al
2008: Inward­ness: the rise of mean­ing­ful work / The Work Found­a­tion
2008: Soft skills hard facts/ Penelope Tobin
2008: Today’s tro­jan horse / Diana McLain Smith
2009: Build­ing char­ac­ter / Demos
2009: Goals gone wild: the sys­tem­atic side effects of over-prescribing goal set­ting / Har­vard Busi­ness School
2010: Lead­er­ship for per­son­al­ising learn­ing / National Col­lege for Lead­er­ship of Schools and Children’s Ser­vices
2011: Labour Mar­ket Out­look: Focus on young people / CIPD


Print Print