How Technologies Like VR And AI Can Solve The Soft Skills Crisis
Jason is the CEO of Sozo Labs, focusing on building VR and immersive apps that deliver real business value for their customers.
The World Economic Forum ranked creative thinking, agility and flexibility, and empathy and active listening within the most important skills for workers in 2023. Teamwork, compassion in leadership and clear communication are also essential skills employees will need over the coming years. What’s becoming increasingly apparent is the focus on these soft skills and, while certainly still necessary, the veering away from hard or technical skills.
But there is nothing “soft” about soft skills; they are often considered the hardest skills to learn because they are challenging to master and take a long time before we can start using them confidently in our day-to-day lives. That’s largely because they are used by people to impact other people.
Thirty years ago, when I started my career