Categorizing Skills: More Than Just Semantics

Posted on March 18, 2022 by Johanna Bolin Tingvall

In the Learning & development team at Spotify our preferred way of categorizing skills is by dividing them into durable and perishable skills. This is a different way of categorizing skills compared to the most common naming of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ skills. And it’s not just semantics! Soft skills are usually described as those interpersonal […]

Being skilled at upskilling

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Johanna Bolin Tingvall

A constant challenge for most organisations is to make sure their people are up to date with the skills they need. It’s a subject that’s been debated within HR (and in particular Learning & Development teams) for some time, but with the rate of change in the world increasing every day the pressure on solving […]