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Entrepreneurs Need to Up Their Game on Soft Skills

Darren A. Smith

December 7, 2021

Make Sure Your ‘Soft Skills’ are the Right Soft Skills You’ve probably watched Lord Alan Sugar on BBC’s The Apprentice…

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Christmas TV Adverts 2021: Who Will Come Out on Top This Year?

Sarah Garratt

November 23, 2021

Here is Your 2021 Christmas TV Advert List – Is John Lewis This Year’s Winner? Christmas. The time of year…

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How to Reduce Stress & Become Calm with the EMDR Butterfly Hug

Darren A. Smith

November 11, 2021

The Butterfly Hug was First Used with Survivors of Hurricane Pauline in Mexico in 1998 The Butterfly Hug is an…

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Under Attack: Simple Ways to Dodge the Real Threat of Cybercrime

Darren A. Smith

November 7, 2021

This Company Has Been Phished That company has been subjected to ransomware. My friend has lost his identity. I have…

Book Review: The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell

Darren A. Smith

November 5, 2021

About the Book The Bomber Mafia – A story set in war by Malcolm Gladwell. Malcolm Timothy Gladwell CM is…

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29 One-Sentence Ways to Upskill Yourself

Darren A. Smith

October 22, 2021

So, You Want to Upskill Yourself? Great. You’re at the Right Place. Maybe you’d had some training and you want…

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What are Soft Skills? Essential Skills for Individual & Team Success

Ailish O'Rourke-Henriette

October 4, 2021

Soft Skills in The Workplace Ah, soft skills! Those skills we love to claim to have but hate to spend…

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Become a Soft Skills Guru With These 7 Steps

Darren A. Smith

September 14, 2021

Jack Ma, the Chairman of Alibaba, Said That Soft Skills are the Future. Humans cannot process data quicker than machines,…

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How to Improve Your Likeability With the Likeable Coin

Darren A. Smith

September 8, 2021

What is Likeable? Right off the bat, let’s deal with the spelling – likability vs likeability. That pesky ‘e’. It…

Learning Styles Questionnaire

Gabby Smith

August 31, 2021

Let’s Get Started Finding Out How You Learn With This Free Learning Style Questionnaire This learning styles questionnaire has been…

Gibbs Reflective Cycle

Charles Smith

August 23, 2021

Feel the Benefit of Experiential Learning The Gibbs Reflective Cycle, also known as the Gibbs Model of Reflection and Gibbs…

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5 Soft Skill Models That Are Easy to Learn and Implement

Darren A. Smith

July 12, 2021

Five a Day! Back in 2018, Jack Ma said, “We have to teach our kids something unique, so that a…

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