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6 Blog Posts on the Professional Value of Storytelling

July 1, 2019 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

Consider the professional value of storytelling as part of your professional development strategy. Storytelling is a soft skill with great power in today’s rapidly changing technological environments. Since the beginning of time, stories connect people, values, history and information. How do you use story to communicate to people who may not solve problems the same… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Human Capital & Industrial IoT Workforce, Professional Development Tagged With: communication, engineering, Industry40, IoT, keynote speaker, manufacturing, professional development, professional value, quality, soft skills, STEM Professional Development, STEM STorytelling keynote speaker, storytelling, technology, women in engineering, women in technology

3rd Quarter One Millimeter Mindset™ Zinger Blog Posts

September 27, 2018 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

These third quarter zinger blog posts focus on how “what we do” impacts the customers we serve. So often, all of us get caught up going through the “steps” of someone else’s process or “how to” formula. Yet, our actions fall short. We, ourselves, do not feel authentic, sincere or genuine in talking their talk…. [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Collaboration And Convergence, Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Professional Development Tagged With: business growth, communication, customer experience, customer retention, customer success, engineering, IIoT, Industry40, IoT, leadership, personal development, professional speaker, quality, sales, soft skills, STEM professionals, technology, women in business, workforce

Mid Year Workforce Innovation and Engagement Blog Posts

July 3, 2018 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

It is time for a mid year workforce innovation break! Are you ready to refresh and recalibrate your brain? This midyear workforce innovation blog post review links to the top 5 blog posts that readers find relevant and valuable. Make the workplace more collaborative, productive and profitable, in the process. It is far too easy… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Collaboration And Convergence, Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Human Capital & Industrial IoT Workforce, Professional Development Tagged With: collaboration, culture, customer experience, engineering, HR, IIoT, Industry 4.0, IoT, IT, professional intimidation, quality, sales, soft skills, STEM, Us versus Them mindset, workforce, workplace

Are your Storytelling Soft Skills half as productive as they could be?

May 28, 2018 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

Developing storytelling soft skills seems trivial to many STEM professionals, compared to the rigors of their respective professional disciplines. First, STEM professionals are used to speaking and thinking using discipline-specific language and logic. They are comfortable within that communication environment. In addition, STEM professionals are exposed to marketing and sales-based storytelling styles, when attending professional… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Collaboration And Convergence, Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Professional Development Tagged With: engineering, grants writing, Industry 4.0 human capital strategy, investors, marketing, math, pitching, sales, science, soft skills, startups, STEM, STEM Professional Development, STEM STorytelling keynote speaker, storytelling, technology

Creating a Balancing Act between Soft Skills and Hard Skills?

April 16, 2018 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

Compared to hard skills, acquired knowledge and professional core competencies, the term “soft skills” sounds wimpy and ineffective, doesn’t it? Perhaps that is why folks downplay the credibility of professions requiring an overload of soft skills, compared to hard skills. According to Wikipedia, the source of all knowledge in the galaxy, the definition of soft… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Collaboration And Convergence, Professional Development Tagged With: career, collaboration, cross functional team leadership keynote speaker, customer retention, hard skills, Industry 4.0 human capital strategy, innovation, professional development, soft skills, STEM Professional Development, STEM STorytelling keynote speaker, workplace

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