Got Skills

In this special episode, Sari and Michelle sit down with Kelly Ryan Bailey from Let's Talk About Skills, Baby, to discuss the behind-the-scenes process of making Got Skills.  

Learn why we felt a bite-sized show for career seekers was so important to build, what to expect in future seasons, and what we learned while making it! 

Big Takeaways: 

1. There is so much language in societal narratives that tries to separate work and life, maintaining they are two distinct things that need to be balanced. But actually, work and life can’t be separated. They exist together like colors blended on a palette.   
2. We have spent really the better part of the last century planning our lives around work - planning where we live around where our office is located. But there has been much greater flexibility in that over the past decade and we are so glad to see it continuing to grow.  
3. Everybody's kind of going around using their own vocabulary when discussing skills. We want to be able to dissect it from each different perspective, so eventually, everyone can speak the same skills language. 

Got Skills is a Growth Network Podcasts Production.

The Skill: Strengthening your self-discipline and self-leadership, so you can have the biggest impact. 

This week, we’re diving into Season 1 Episode 7 of Let’s Talk About Skills Baby. In this episode, Kelly speaks with Frank Britt, CEO of Penn Foster Group about the importance of helping others for your own personal journey. He believes we all need people to remind us that we are awesome from time to time and that we all have the opportunity and a responsibility to provide that vote of confidence to others. 

Key Takeaway: Genius comes in many forms, from mental to physical to spiritual, and more. We all have genius inside us, we just have to figure out what that genius is. 

Learn more at skillsbaby.com/gotskills  

Got Skills is produced by Growth Network Podcasts 

The Skill: Cognitive abilities and personality traits. Yep, these are skills!  

This week, we’re diving into Season 1 Episode 9 of Let’s Talk About Skills Baby, where Kelly speaks with Denise Leaser, President of Great Biz Tools about the skills and competencies-based platform they created to match job seekers with the jobs they were born to do. Denise explains that what they are not assessing is knowledge. Knowledge can always be learned and added in to supplement someone’s innate strengths. Rather they are assessing innate cognitive skills, abilities, and personality traits. 

Key Takeaway: Instead of trying to measure your knowledge, focus on your capabilities. This will help you find the opportunities that are truly meant for you. 

Learn more at skillsbaby.com/gotskills  

Got Skills is produced by Growth Network Podcasts 

The Skill: Emotional Intelligence and Social Capital are two skills that you should consistently work on strengthening to not only improve your hire-ability but your quality of life in general!   

This week, we’re diving into Season 1 Episode 6 of Let’s Talk About Skills Baby. In this episode, Kelly speaks with Gayatri Agnew, Senior director of Walmart Giving at the Walmart Foundation about the immense value of social, emotional, and relational skills, and the power of skills to unlock human potential. 

Key Takeaway: Social capital is not about knowing fancy people, it’s about having relational value in the relationships you do have, and constantly working to add to and grow your relationships.  

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The Skill: Being able to develop and articulate your ideas. 

This week, we’re diving into Season 1 Episode 3 of Let’s Talk About Skills Baby. In this episode, Kelly speaks with Elizabeth Leiba, Director of Instructional Design and Innovation at City College in Florida, and Cohost of The EdUp Experience Podcast. They discuss the types of skills Elizabeth feels students should work on strengthening most during their higher education experience, and that while the practical application of these skills in the workplace often looks very different from their application in academia, they are actually highly relevant.  

Key Takeaway: Being able to articulate your ideas, and write and speak in a way that explains them clearly to others is really the currency in the workplace.  

Learn more at skillsbaby.com/gotskills

Got Skills is produced by Growth Network Podcasts

The Skill: Blending your various interests into one niche perspective. 

This week, we’re diving into Season 1 Episode 2 of Let’s Talk About Skills Baby. In this episode host, Kelly Ryan Bailey speaks with Tony Tsai, Director of Leadership Development at University of Utah’s School of Medicine about the changes to higher education that he feels would most benefit students. Tony believes that while every student chooses a degree to pursue, they are still responsible for their own skillset. It is not enough to just take the classes offered in your program, you really have to take command of your own education, pursue things that interest you, and get a well-rounded exposure to different areas of study. 

Key Takeaway: Higher Education no longer draws a straight line to employment, rather it is a training ground for life’s more durable skills – like how to think critically, manage time, and navigate competing perspectives and deadlines.  

Learn more at skillsbaby.com/gotskills  

Got Skills is produced by Growth Network Podcasts 

The Skill: Staying Curious 

This week, we’re diving into Season 2 Episode 15 of Let’s Talk About Skills Baby. In this episode host, Kelly Ryan Bailey speaks with Jay Latta, CEO at Stint about the importance of staying curious and creative when it comes to both our professional and personal lives. He is interested in learning what happens when we stop looking at humans as resources and start looking at them as assets, whose constant curiosity fuels our collective development.  

Jay believes our main human need is to stay curious, and that eliminating competition is the key to moving past a scarcity mindset.  

Key Takeaway: Your Skills Story is way more than the tasks you were asked to complete on a job. It explains how your curiosities have manifested into specific skills that will help you continue learning and growing throughout your life. 

Learn more at skillsbaby.com/gotskills

Got Skills is produced by Growth Network Podcasts

The Skill: Human skills, that cannot be easily replicated or taught. The ones that continue to make us relevant as technology improves and machines take over many jobs. 

This week, we’re diving into Season 2 Episode 14 of Let’s Talk About Skills Baby. In this episode host, Kelly Ryan Bailey speaks with Leonor Stjepic, CEO of Montessori Group about what she calls essential life skills or human skills. Just so we’re clear, these skills Leonor is referring to are often labeled “soft skills,” however, she is very passionate about changing that vernacular.  

In her experience hiring, she says she has never picked a candidate because of their hard skills or credentials, she picks them for who they are. 

Key Takeaway: A technical skill might help you get a job, but a human skill helps you keep the job, and ultimately grow in the job. 

Learn more at skillsbaby.com/gotskills

Got Skills is produced by Growth Network Podcasts 

The Skill: Caretaking is a professional skill. Period.  

This week we’re diving into Season 2 Episode 9 of Let’s Talk About Skills Baby. In this episode host, Kelly Ryan Bailey speaks with Riccarda Zezza, CEO of Lifeed. Lifeed is the only learning platform in the world that transforms life transitions and care activities such as parenting, caring for an elderly person, or going through a crisis, into opportunities to train workplace skills.   

Riccarda explains some of the skills that stand out as key learnings from parenthood, and how they directly build essential professional skills. Now, if you’re scratching your head trying to figure out how cleaning spit up or taming a temper tantrum has prepared you for your next job, tune in to learn how!  

Key Takeaway: The more you can see your time spent caretaking as an asset, not a distraction, the more you can tell the complete story of your skills, and more importantly of who you are. 

Learn more at skillsbaby.com/gotskills  

Got Skills is produced by Growth Network Podcasts 

The Skill: Framing Your Life Skills As Professional Skills 

This week, we’re diving into Season 2 Episode 5 of Let’s Talk About Skills Baby. In this episode, host Kelly Ryan Bailey interviewed Omer Molad, who is the co-founder and CEO of Vervoe, a computer software company that helps organizations make great hiring decisions based on how well candidates can do a job, rather than how good they look on paper. 

Omer discusses why being a generalist rather than a specialist, can be more helpful in the long run of your career, and how you can showcase your life skills as professional skills.  

Key Takeaway: Your past performance isn’t necessarily a predictor of your future success. It’s the collection of skills you’ve honed over time and how you apply them to a new role that determines your success. 

Learn more at skillsbaby.com/gotskills

Got Skills is produced by Growth Network Podcasts