Dané Johnson is the Culture and Change Consultant at SweetRush. She works in the Thrive by SweetRush team focusing on cultural transformation in organizations at a comprehensive level. She is a human-centered leadership collaborator and coach as well as a mentor at Everwise who previously held a Management and Leadership Adjunct Faculty position at the Foster College of Business at Bradley University. Dané has a Master of Business Administration, Leadership, Strategy, Organizational Behaviour, and Marketing Communication and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Relations Marketing from Bradley University.

Dané joins me today to share some hard truths about soft skills. She explains what soft skills are and how they help people build relationships, navigate emotions, and be more open and connected. She reveals how soft skills are harder to measure and quantify than hard technical ones. We discuss whether people today have lost their humanity, curiosity, listening, and caring skills. Dané also defines emotional intelligence and elaborates on how it can affect professional and personal lives.

“The goal of practicing these skills is to bring you into a new mode of being so that—as you cognitively practice them in your daily life—some of that cognition becomes unnecessary.” - Dané Johnson

This week on Insert:Human

• What soft skills are, and how they help people understand themselves better, empathize with others, and make precise assessments of certain situations
• Learning soft skills and why you should practice them in your daily life
• Using conscious leadership skills in your personal life and relationships, and why it is harder to apply these concepts to the people we care about the most
• How an individualist, achievement-oriented, target-driven society has caused a loss of soft skills
• How corporations, colleges, and universities are beginning to put more of an emphasis on soft skills
• Which soft skills to learn in one’s developmental journey

Connect with Dané Johnson:

• SweetRush
• SweetRush on LinkedIn
• SweetRush on Instagram
• SweetRush on Facebook
• SweetRush on Twitter
• Dané Johnson on LinkedIn

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