The most successful people are those who can talk to others(trojanczyk.eu)
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The most successful people are those who can talk to others
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- As the McKinsey report shows, it is estimated that between 400 and 800 million workers worldwide will have to change jobs by 2030 due to automation. Technical skills are dying out faster and faster, with some experts even estimating their lifespan to be just a few years.
- 57% of senior managers say that social skills are more important than technical skills.
- For example, being a software engineer is not just about delivering the code itself. It is a complex and intricate role where you have to look at millions of different contexts and be able to bring them together. In the main, it is based on empathy and understanding another human being in order to make the process you want to improve useful.
- 86% of employees and managers cite a lack of effective collaboration and communication as the main reasons for failure in the workplace,
- 74% of employees feel that they lack good communication within the company,
- 80% of US employees report feeling stressed due to ineffective communication,
- 28% of employees feel that poor communication is the cause of their inability to get work done by a certain date,
- according to a report by David Grossman (involving 400 large companies and 100,000 employees), it is estimated that the cost of communication barriers in the workplace is $62.4 million per company per year.