How to Build a Resilient Team
When a team has resilience baked into its culture, it creates a working environment where people take smart risks. Where experimentation isn’t met with fear. Where momentum doesn’t get lost when things go wrong. Resilience is a speed skill, shortening the distance between failure and success.
Want to help your team build resilience—and the other soft skills that fuel performance under pressure?
The Real Problem with AI Disruption? We’re Running Out of Time
More than 60% of companies reported plans to implement AI within the next 12 months, automating tasks that people are still doing today.
This means we’re facing a dangerous misalignment. Our professional timelines are out of sync with business realities. And this misalignment is magnified by the evolving demands of the modern workforce.
Self-Awareness: Beyond the Soft Skill Myth
Self-awareness is an accelerator – think of it like this: Soft skills like humility, curiosity, relationship-building, resilience, tolerance of ambiguity, and perspective-taking can be observed and practiced. They’re the things people notice about how you show up at work, in conversations, and on teams.
Self-awareness, on the other hand, is internal. It’s the quiet recognition of your default patterns.
The Most In-Demand Soft Skills for 2025—And Why They Matter More Than Ever
As technology advances and industries evolve, one truth remains: soft skills are the foundation of professional success. According to LinkedIn's 2024 Workplace Learning Report, aligning learning programs to business goals and upskilling employees are top priorities for organizations, underscoring the critical importance of soft skills in today's workplace.
Fostering Soft Skills for a Challenging Future
Soft skills are pivotal for success in a complex, fast-paced, and ever-changing work world. To ready the workforce for the changes to come, leaders need to equip their team members with a new set of soft skills required for adaptability. These soft skills are resilience, relationship-building, humility, perspective-taking, curiosity, and tolerance of ambiguity. Remember, it’s important to respect individual boundaries and work within everyone’s stretch zone. Each person’s journey is unique, and it’s essential to understand that one person’s stretch zone might be to much for another. By leveraging Skiilify’s myGiide, we can provide the tailored tools and support each team member build the soft skills needed for a complex, volatile, ambiguous, and uncertain world, ensuring they achieve their fullest potential.