ABOUT YOUR BRAIN Lesson #6 SOFT SKILLS

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  alone. Welcome to stem stories, Miss Ewing.

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  This is Episode six and our work on the brain.

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  And today we're gonna talk about something that's called soft

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  skills. Now, before we get started, I just want to

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  say that there are people that do not like term

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  calling himself skills, and we're not going to get into

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  the debate today.

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  But we're gonna talk about what they are and how

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  they affect you.

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  You know, having taught now for 13 someone years, being

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  up in the classroom or being in the classroom.

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  I know that I have a lot of expect expectations

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  for my students, and I expect the very best from.

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  And a big part of that is developing soft skills.

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  Now, sometimes I have students.

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  They're like, Why are you being so hard on us?

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  Why are you asking us to do things?

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  I don't know.

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  I don't want to do that.

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  Well, there's a reason behind everything that I do in

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  from the classroom, whether you understand it or not.

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  And I think this video is gonna help you understand

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  it a little bit better.

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  So there are two different things.

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  They're called hard skills in soft skills, and I might

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  explain the difference between the two.

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  Now, hard skills are those things that we can learn

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  in school.

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  Our math are arithmetic.

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  Are coding how to use equipment?

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  Um, these are the skills that we go to college

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  for. These other things.

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  We get training.

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  Excuse me.

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  These are the things we get degrees for these air,

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  the skills that we go out and go to get

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  jobs and say These are the skills that I have.

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  These are the things I've been trained to do these

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  air, the hard skills.

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  They're called hard skills because their candle, I can say

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  that I know how to type my name.

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  I know how to code a game.

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  Those are hard skills that I know I can sell

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  now you would think those are the most important skills.

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  No soft skills are a little bit different, and I'm

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  gonna explain which one's more important in just a little

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  bit. But soft skills can be defined as qualitative attributes

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  that provide hiring managers with a sneak peek oven.

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  Applicants have professional behavior, so it's qualitative, which means that

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  could see, or they can look at your behavior, basically

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  skills include adaptability, the ability to change communication and teamwork.

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  So how you're able to adapt a situation, how you

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  were able to communicate and talk with other people and

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  how well you work together as a team.

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  Remember those things that I have you guys do in

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  the front when I'm in the classroom?

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  Teamwork Contemplating technical skills Would soft skills increases your value?

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  So having these Theodore stability, communication and team or actually

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  makes your hard skills look 10 times more hirable and

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  a deficit meaning a low area of soft skills is

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  the number one reason workers lose their jobs so they

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  don't lose their jobs for not having the hard skills

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  actually lose jobs for not having their soft skills 94%.

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  That's all this area in the yellow of recruiters.

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  People that hire you believe that employees employees with a

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  stronger soft skill set has a better chance of getting

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  the job and getting promoted within that job.

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  Everybody applying for the job has similar hard skills, but

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  being able to show that you have soft skills not

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  only gives you a better chance of getting the job,

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  keeping the job and getting promoted at that job.

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  So what are the top 10 Soft skills communication?

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  How well you're able to actually have dialogue with people

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  that are your friends, but people that are not your

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  friends. So sometimes, like when I put you into teams

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  with people that you don't normally work with, I'm looking

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  to see how well you're able to communicate with those

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  people. I have said this in my class before.

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  If you're in a job and you don't get along

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  with other people at school, if you're on a team

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  and you're not getting along your team, a lot of

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  times a teacher will put you in another team or

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  let you work by yourself in a job.

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  If you're not getting along with someone and you go

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  to your boss and say, you know what, We don't

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  get along.

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  They're gonna let you go.

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  Not the team being self motivated, stepping up and being

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  like this.

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  Like with May, Mr Ewing, I've done What do I

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  do next?

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  What's next?

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  Not just I'm done and sitting back and not doing

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  the next steps are asking what the next steps are.

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  Be self motivated, be a leader, and that doesn't mean,

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  you've got to be the front of the line.

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  That doesn't mean you gotta lead the class.

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  The leader of yourself being responsible.

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  You know what being responsible also means taking, making good

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  choices. But it's also like if you made a bad

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  choice or you've done something, just take ownership of it,

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  be responsible for it.

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  Teamwork. I can't talk about teamwork enough.

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  That is one of the hardest skills to learn.

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  But it's one of the most important soft skill in

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  my eyes.

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  Be your problem.

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  So look at what you do have and what you

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  need to actually solve something.

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  Decisiveness, Make a decision and run with it, this one

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  being able to work under pressure.

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  If you know some things, do it three o'clock and

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  your wait until 2 45 to start your work.

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  You're not getting it done, and deadlines are super important.

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  They aren't usually held as important in school.

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  Not know him entry school, but they should be.

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  You need to be held to a deadline because in

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  the real world you don't hit your deadline.

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  You don't get paid nexus flexibility.

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  Be flexible if you're not getting the way you want

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  or you're not.

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  Your ideas aren't going the way you want.

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  Be flexible to understand that maybe someone's ideas.

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  They're just better in that situation and the other conflict

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  resolution. If there is a conflict, don't talk about it

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  in the heat of the moment.

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  Take a breather, but be willing to see the other

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  side of a conflict.

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  It always has two sides, not just your side and

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  their side.

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  And sometimes we got to step out of our own

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  side just to be able to hear and see that.

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  And that's why these same things clear communication, listening skills,

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  self control, positive attitude, assertiveness, empathy for your other teammates.

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  Yes, these are all skills that we should be building

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  in our classroom.

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  This is why I said the expectations so high with

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  my students is because I expect to see all of

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  this. And when I don't it's a problem because I'm

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  trying to make sure that you each one of you,

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  is set up for the most success that you can

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  possibly have.

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  And if you don't master, these doesn't matter how many

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  hard skills you have.

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  That's the biggest reason people are let go.

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  So Which one's more important after hearing that?

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  Which one do you think is more important?

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  This is the crazy part.

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  It's more important to hire for soft skills, have 30%

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  said soft skills.

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  A combination of soft skills and our schools skills is

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  62% and just hard skills is 8% bad hires, actually,

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  as how people lose their jobs.

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  We already talked about that graph.

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  So here's the difference between look at our heart skills.

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  Look at are soft skills, which ones are more important

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  and which one of each of those is more important

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  to you and your success.

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  So remember when I'm up in front of the classroom

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  or your teachers up in front of classroom and they're

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  asking you to develop those soft skills by giving you

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  assignments that's going to do it.

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  It isn't that we're trying to be mean or angry

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  or punish.

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  You were trying to make you a better student and

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  a better learner.

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  We're trying to help you develop your muscles as a

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  learner and developing those sauce