Getting to the CORE: Putting an End to the Term “Soft Skills”
We need to retire the term “soft skills.” A new vocabulary for describing critical social and organizational skills is long overdue. Substituting the acronym “CORE” (Competence in Organizational and Relational Effectiveness) for the loaded word “soft” provides a more fitting term for the important s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications Inc.
2019
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| Online Access: | View Fulltext in Publisher |
| Summary: | We need to retire the term “soft skills.” A new vocabulary for describing critical social and organizational skills is long overdue. Substituting the acronym “CORE” (Competence in Organizational and Relational Effectiveness) for the loaded word “soft” provides a more fitting term for the important skills the term describes and, in doing so, reframes the perceptions of these key skills to reflect their importance for career and organizational success. © The Author(s) 2018. |
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| ISBN: | 10564926 (ISSN) |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1056492618818023 |