The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR

183 - Soft skills are POWER skills: Erica Spitale


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Erica Spitale joined us on The Modern People Leader.

We talked about the current HR job market, why soft skills should be called power skills instead, and the work-life smoothie.

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(2:41) Good news stories

(7:28) Erica’s journey and what’s next for her

(11:20) The current job market for HR leaders

(14:33) How she’s approaching her job search 

(18:48) Erica’s obsession with leadership

(22:54) What it means to be a manager versus a leader

(24:30) The hardest things in leadership are the things that make us human

(27:12) To be a leader requires you to think of yourself less and others more

(30:21) Building an inclusive leadership series

(33:15) What great leadership looks like

(36:12) Soft skills should be rebranded to “power skills”

(39:00) We need to find metrics to measure “power skills”

(41:00) Erica’s superpower skill

(43:30) Making leadership a choice, not a requirement

(45:37) The work-life smoothie

(48:21) Rapid fire questions

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