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Future-proofing your job against the robots

Comatch

There is little that machines, robots, and software-based AI won’t be able to do in the future – apart from feeling and acting in a human and emotionally intelligent way. “Our so-called “soft skills” are what make us human. This means all of us will have a unique path to continue developing our soft skills.

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The Lie That Perfectionists Tell Themselves

Harvard Business

For example, one of the most common ones is the belief that increasing productivity, or getting the most out of your time, will decrease the quality of your work, or your ability to do tasks perfectly. In fact, spending more time at work and on specific tasks can actually hurt our performance, reducing the quality of our work.

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How to Know If Someone Is Ready to Be a Manager

Harvard Business

For some real-world perspective on becoming a first-time manager, I reached out to my friend Dr. Jim Mitchell, a computer scientist who made the leap into management from an engineering position, eventually retiring as Vice President at Oracle Laboratories. How have you developed your people skills? Rebecca Knight.

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5 Ways to Focus Your Energy During a Work Crunch

Harvard Business

David Rock, director of the NeuroLeadership Institute , suggests in his book Your Brain at Work that, rather than suppressing or denying an emotion, an effective cognitive technique is labeling, whereby you take a situation and put a label on your emotions. “Partly, this is their ability to label emotion states.”

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