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Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills: What’s the Difference and Which Do I Need to Build?

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Whether you are a hiring manager determined to build a winning team or a job-seeker searching for the perfect career, you need to know the difference between hard skills and soft skills. The relative importance of hard skills vs. soft skills can vary between industries and positions. So how do they differ?

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Bibliotherapy: Boost Well-being and Find Community With a Therapeutic Book Club

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Millions of Americans participate in some type of book club, whether virtual or in-person. Book clubs come in all shapes and sizes. They can focus on fiction or nonfiction, have themes to guide book choices, and be organized through places like work, school, professional organizations, religious groups and libraries.

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45 Professional Development Books to Level Up Your Career and Your Life

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In a world with countless ways to level up your professional development, books are one of the most underestimated tools. Professional development books give insight on how to grow in our careers, grow as people and better approach work-related challenges, shifting work environments and new opportunities.

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The 10 Best Books for Creativity

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Take a look at this list of 10 books on all things creative: 1. Authored by Sarah Stein Greenberg, the executive director of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (Stanford’s “d.school”), the book is a combination of stories and exercises intended to encourage the reader to face and overcome challenges in creative ways. By Pavan Soni.

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2020 Training Opportunities for Administrative Assistants

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When you set your mind to improving your job skills, you take control of your life to reach your full potential. Here’s what we have in store for administrative professionals in 2020: Joan’s 30 Year Anniversary Tour – Timeless Skills for Assistants. 1 Day Training, 4 Cities. Free webinars Downloadable eBooks Books.

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Resilience Training: 4 Tools to Help You Persevere

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But it requires resilience training. Tell it about the skills and resources you have to persevere. Train and discipline your inner voice as you would an unruly pet. It took years to train your inner voice to treat you disrespectfully. Try: Ani Trime’s Little Book of Affirmations. Argue back at it.

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9 Problem-Solving Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

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You need problem-solving skills to succeed in work and in life. We recommend each of these books to hone your problem-solving skills and level up in business and life. Solving the People Problem: Essential Skills You Need to Lead and Succeed in Today’s Workplace. Cracked it!: By Brett M. Cooper and Evan Kerrigan.