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Skills 4.0: Focus
on Soft Skills
In today’s rapidly
changing dynamic markets, companies need an
adaptable and flexible workforce in order to be
ready to address potential skills gaps and
talent shortages. It is mostly soft skills that
are required to rise to the challenges brought
on by the megatrends and rapid change in
technology,
business models,
organizational
designs, and
customer needs.
The Fourth
Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) makes
formal degrees (hard skills) comparatively less
important, with personal skills (soft skills)
becoming more critical. People need new Skills
4.0 not only to cope with rapid, relentless,
unpredictable, an often transformational change,
but to thrive in it and to create change
themselves.
The new job
marketplace calls to focus on
capabilities instead of qualifications.
Instead of looking for hard-skill professionals,
companies look now more often for employees who
are open to change.
Employees need to
be trained for skills, especially
soft skills,
not tasks. Machines take care of
quality control, while employees need to
shift their focus on the things machines so far
cannot do, such as
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Innovation,
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Interpersonal Skills
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and
emotional intelligence. Employees have to be
open to
change, possess greater flexibility to
adapt to new roles, and build
cross-functional expertise through
continuous interdisciplinary
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