Special Guest - Phillip Duncan
  
 "People may be hired for their “hard skills”, but they are fired for their lack of “soft skills”. We provide Communication focused training on listening, conflict resolution, change management, skill gap planning, conducting better meetings, giving feedback, persuasion, and leadership and many more topics designed to improve your work environment." - Phillip Duncan"
  
 Phillip Duncan is a Bestselling Author, Professional Speaker, Trainer who works with companies to better understand hiring practices and ways to engage each generation successfully while improving retention. Today, Phillip and I will explore the world of skills hiring and why soft skills often times are more important than hard skills. 
   
 Today's Podcast Perspective

• Record low unemployment has been flipped upside down
• Companies now have a choice if they want soft skills, hard skills, or both
• Recession Times - what do companies typically hire
• Phillip's take on recovering from a pandemic - coming out of half time
• Competing for Top Tier Talent vs the status quo
• Many people made decisions a long time ago what they wanted, this pandemic has made people realize what we really want
• Forced pause has caused changes in the mindset
• Shifting mentality toward life instead of work
• Realization of what we are missing in life
• Is there room for a different approach to work/life balance
• Employees being forced to work from home has educated companies
• Millennials getting hit hard during the recovery because of lack of hard skills
• Grabbing Millennials and growing them into a role vs hiring older generations which have been there done that
• Non-Negotiables vs Negotiables
• What do you tell the younger generation with lack of experience?
•  Truth to the younger less experienced generations
• Older generation will be the anchor during tough times; young generation will be the ones getting us off the sandbar

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 Phillip Duncan
 genWHY Communications
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