Your job performance is a combination of your "hard skills" — your technical knowledge and hands-on work product — and your intangible "soft skills," which are taking the American workplace by storm.

Senior leaders, listen up: Soft skills are not soft; they are in fact critical. Experts have discussed this ad nauseum, and yet "heads of" still aren’t getting it. You are in charge of ensuring the ...

What, exactly, are soft skills? And why do soft skills even matter, when generative AI seems more skilled than most workers today? Soft skills are things like interpersonal communication, work ethic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark C. Perna is a generational expert who covers education & careers. I’m a small business owner in an industry where soft skills ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Kermit Randa As ...

The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of top leaders and experts who pay dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership, and more. BY Nacho De Marco Here’s a ...

Retire “soft skills.” Call them what they are. Define them. Model them. That’s how we turn vague language into measurable ...

It’s a challenging time to be entering the workforce for the first time. The traditional path of getting a college education or learning a skill, then taking a job and remaining in it for your entire ...

Move over, cloud computing and mobile development. The skills that matter most today are the ones we mistakenly call “soft.” But there’s nothing soft about them. In fact, soft skills are quickly ...

While there are many different types of skills to look for in a potential communications team member, some can’t be taught in a classroom or through training. So-called “soft” skills, including ...

In recent years, recruiters and employers have increasingly focused their talent identification efforts on soft rather than hard skills. Look for any desirable position, and it's unlikely you will be ...

In the movie “The Graduate,” the young character played by Dustin Hoffman is given a simple piece of job advice from his father’s friend in a line that has become one of the movie’s most iconic: There ...