What are soft skills, why they matter?
The hard skills vs. soft skills debate continues in today’s workplace. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, a majority of companies say that soft skills are just as important as hard skills when it comes to recruiting and hiring new employees. Though definitions may vary, soft skills are traits typically associated with one’s personality and […]
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Improving teamwork through mutual understanding and self-assessment
An article in last month’s Harvard Business Review, titled “Bring Out the Best in Your Team,” discusses an experiment conducted among university students that identified a common flaw in teamwork dynamic. “When teams form to take on tasks, they are seldom able to tap the full knowledge of every member, in large part because the […]
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Missouri Business Trends in Agriculture
The 2012 Agriculture Census Full Report released last May, revealed a number of interesting business trends across the nation and state-wide. Nationally, there is an overall increase in organic sales, use of renewable energy and direct selling. In Missouri, more farms are selling value-added products such as beef jerky, fruit jams, jelly, floral arrangements, cider […]
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Definitions of Leadership: From Cohort Model to Emotional Intelligence
The cohort model for William Wood’s MBA in Entrepreneurial Leadership program offered at multiple locations in Missouri allows students to build relationships and engage in ways that prove helpful beyond the classroom. As students learn technical skills that usher development of smart business strategies, cohorts offer a setting that allows students to build emotional intelligence […]
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Women inspiring entrepreneurship near and far
Someone once explained the Catch-22 of recruiting under-represented populations of any kind this way: “you can’t be what you can’t see.” And so it goes for women entrepreneurs across Missouri — in cities such as Fulton, Columbia, Jefferson City, Hannibal, Cape Girardeau, Joplin and others around the state. Yes, it’s true that the number of […]
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MBA outlook looking bright
The Corporate Recruiters Survey, GMAC’s annual survey of employers that recruit on business school campuses, shows that the job market continues to improve for graduate business degree holders, in Missouri and worldwide. An estimated 80% of companies plan to hire MBAs in 2014, with the health care and manufacturing sectors showing the greatest expected growth […]
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