The Hard Stuff Behind Soft Skills: Dissecting 2024's Most In-Demand Competencies
'The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.' - Roger Enrico, former CEO and Chairman of PepsiCo. As talent management leaders, we know that soft skills require hard work. Join us as we dive into 2024's most in-demand soft skills, as measured by LinkedIn and how they align with your learning and development priorities. Together we will explore strategies for cultivating in-demand skills in your organization - including best practices for teaching, coaching, and measuring these critical traits.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the soft skills most aligned with driving results in your organization.
- Identify development strategies to build, enhance, and increase these skills in your current workforce.
- Design measurements of these skills to evaluate ROI of your development strategies.
Tina Schust Robinson

As founder of WorkJoy, Tina builds on 20 years of operations, technology consulting, and HR leadership experience to provide facilitation and coaching solutions to organizations ready to unleash the potential of their people. She co-creates talent programs that drive business outcomes and deliver human results, partnering with leaders from prominent organizations including Fabletics, FOX Sports, National Wildlife Federation, SAP, Savage X Fenty, and Spotify. Tina graduated from the University of Virginia (BA), University of Michigan (MBA), and Coactive Training Institute coaching program, and is adjunct faculty at Loyola Marymount University. She lives in Los Angeles with her writer husband and two pet parrots.
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