How Elon Musk Succeeded with Soft Skills

Known for: entrepreneur, innovator, humanitarian, futurist, founder of SpaceX, Co-founder of Paypal, Zip2 and Tesla Motors Primary soft skills: Critical thinking, Goal Setting, Resiliency Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. It’s easy to believe that the age of grand invention [...]

By |2021-04-20T11:34:41-05:00September 30th, 2015|Corporate, Education, Soft Skills|

How Martin Luther King Jr. Succeeded with Soft Skills

Known For: minister, humanitarian, activist, and leader of the Civil Rights Movement Primary Soft Skills: Empathy, Resiliency, Communication Skills, Attitude, Drive Strength/Motivation The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. [...]

By |2021-04-20T11:24:01-05:00September 17th, 2015|Corporate, Education, Soft Skills|

Soft Skills Roundup: August

Here at Conover, we are passionate about emotional intelligence and soft skills. We’ll be looking at six big examples which we think shine a light on how important understanding and developing soft skills can be.   1. News - Stephen Hawking: Black Holes “Are Not The Eternal Prisons” We Once Thought Source: [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:24-05:00September 4th, 2015|Education, News, Soft Skills|

Soft Skills in the World

Here at Conover, we are passionate about emotional intelligence and soft skills. This is the first of what will be a recurring series where we take a look at some interesting articles that highlight soft skills or their absence in news, media, etc... For the final month of Summer, we'll [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:24-05:00August 13th, 2015|Corporate, Education, Soft Skills|

Our Functional Skills System Apps

We have been receiving a lot of inquiries about our Functional Skills System apps over the last few days. Many people have noticed that our 42 Functional Skills System apps are no longer available in the Apple App Store. In fact, it was no less than 30 minutes after we took them [...]

By |2018-04-23T07:52:47-05:00July 22nd, 2015|Education|

Workplace Readiness

In our previous post, we discussed the new WIOA law and what that means for federal and youth programs. With the new law, federal programs now serve more youth with disabilities and must ensure they are prepared for the workforce. Youth programs have only served 20% of youth with disabilities, [...]

By |2019-09-30T15:35:30-05:00November 13th, 2014|Corporate, Education, Soft Skills|
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