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Work Ready Community: Soft Skills An Element of the Work Ethic Skill - Simply put, Soft Skills are the manners of everyday work actions expected of any employee, whether old or young, new or long-time, management or labor By Doug McCammish Chairman, Columbia/Adair County Economic Development Authority We have been asked, "What are these Soft Skills you talk about in the Work Ready Community application?" I agree that the phrase "soft skills" doesn't tell you much. I've had many discussions with local business people about things included in soft skills, but we had never heard of that label - we just wished that the people we hired had the skills. Someone said recently that they had had to terminate more people for lack of soft skills than for any other reason. Soft skills are simply the "manners" or everyday work actions expected of any employee whether old or young, new or long-time, management or labor. Soft skills include being at work on time, returning from lunch and breaks on time, working every day as scheduled, working well with others (teamwork), respecting others in the workplace, working safely, and other things related to these. When we're trying to do any job involving others but we can't depend on them for these things, it makes our job harder. Initially, we thought about applying for Work Ready Community status just because it would bump us up the "list" a little when being considered for new industry. After discussion with Lake Cumberland Area Development District and Adair County Schools folks, we realized that the Work Ready Community program addressed this area, we understood the enormous benefit to our community of not only applying, but of implementing the Work Ethic Seal program in our schools. However, this isn't just an Adair County Schools thing. We see area employers participating by giving preference in interviews to those who have the Work Ethic Seal or the parallel adult education "Ready4Work" certificate. Having those credentials for both young people and adults will do more to attract business to Adair than just being on a list. - Doug McCammish This story was posted on 2012-08-19 19:02:21
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