Strategic Soft Skills Institute

Fast Track to Leadership

Achieve your career advancement goals within 90 days or less…guaranteed.

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Research has established that 85% of job success comes from soft skills, underscoring their power to transform interactions into opportunities and drive extraordinary career outcomes.

Positive Power and Influence®

Secure your place at the table by harnessing your personal power and leveraging the most effective influence styles and strategies.

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Negotiation Programs

Establish your reputation as a skilled negotiator by adopting a distinctive approach that blends a structured process with targeted influence styles.

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The Art and Neuroscience of Intuitive Selling

Earn the title of "sales guru" by mastering the art of quickly understanding your buyer within the first 30 seconds and tailoring your approach to fit their needs.

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Testimonials

"As a person who has managed up to 250 people at once, I think not only is the training outstanding, but the need to be evaluated by others and to see how you are perceived is extremely beneficial."

"This program provided me with the tools and knowledge necessary to shift my behavior and achieve a greater level of corporate maturity, allowing me to be more effective in my interactions with colleagues and personal relationships."

"People come out of the workshops with the ability to more profoundly impact the people they work with and get the results that are necessary to move the organization forward."

"Customizing our influence approach to each person or region in the world significantly improved our ability to influence positive change."

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HBR writer Lou Solomon wrote

that 69% of managers feel uncomfortable communicating (a soft skill) with their employees.

This could mean that tasks are not clearly communicated, feedback is not provided, support is not given resulting in poor performance.

Research has established that

85% of job success comes from soft skills. 15% comes from hard skills.

Yet we still reward hard skills over soft skills promoting people who are ineffective at the soft skills resulting in substandard results.

91% of organizations

want more soft skills, 81% of those companies find it challenging to hire talent with excellent soft skills.

So organizations need to make soft skill development a priority to improve morale and performance which then results in higher retention of employees.

According to MIT management,

the return on soft skills training can be as high as 250%.

Most organizations do not measure the cost of broken relationships which would shock them as they would discover how much it hits the bottom line.

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Self-Control

The research on self-control revealed that people with higher levels of self-control are happier, more successful, have a wider network of friends, and are trusted more.

Our Services

In Person
Programs

We love when we can train face-to-face. We record participants in the longer programs calling it the feedback tool that people love to hate! You can’t argue with a camera!

Virtual
Programs

We first ran virtual programs in 2012! Our designs and use of technology have been refined over the last few years. The feedback from people has been fantastic!

Blended Learning
Programs

How about the best of both worlds? You can have some participants attend virtually while others are in the room. Or some modules can be completed ahead of time virtually and then attend the face-to-face modules. We can help you figure out the design that works best for you!

Executive
Coaching

All of our trainers are fantastic coaches. If you prefer to work one-on-one we can set up a design and process that is tailored to your needs.

Our Approach

We run programs In-Company or as a Public Offering joining people from different organizations. For In-Company programs, we offer different levels of customization.

Our Experience

We have been training Strategic Soft Skills since the 1970s building people’s emotional and social intelligence the world over. We have Global Partners and translations of several programs in over 15 languages. Our programs are, and always have been, research-based.

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Our Team

We have a wonderful team of staff, trainers, and partners.