What are soft skills and why should kids be learning them?
Soft skills complement hard skills. These second are composed of technical knowledge and soft skills, as you may have heard, are a combination of people skills, social skills, communication skills, character, attitudes, among others.More important than knowledge, experience on field or intelligence quotients (IQ), soft skills are much more related to the emotional intelligence quotients (EQ). Daniel Goleman has been developing the theme and this “new” domain of skills. He describes this EQ with 5 pillars such as self-confidence, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. The good news is that EQ and soft skills are trainable and learnable. So everyone...