Bridging the Soft Skills Gap: How to Teach the Missing Basics to Todays Young Talent

PART TWO HOW TO TEACH THE MISSING BASICS TO TODAY'S YOUNG TALENT

Part Two of this book is dedicated to helping you teach the missing basics—complete with step-by-step lesson plans. The missing basics are organized into chapters based on three old-fashioned categories:

• How to Teach the Missing Basics of Professionalism
• How to Teach the Missing Basics of Critical Thinking
• How to Teach the Missing Basics of Followership

All of the exercises within the lesson plans are exercises we have developed and tested over the years in our “career skills” and “managing your boss” seminars with young people in the workplace, following this basic teaching strategy:

• Make them aware: Name it and describe what the skill means to the organization.
• Make them ...