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Awesome Soft Skills Training For Youth, Students, and Professionals. Get details and video highlights for: Professionals | Youth & Young Adults | Al’s Bio.
Soft Skills Training for STEM Students & Young Professionals
Awesome soft skills training for STEM students and early-to-mid career professionals. Click here to learn more.
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Top 5 Questions
1. What are Duncan Nuggets and The Five Soft Skills Clusters?
3. What is our mission and who is Al Duncan?
5. What is a competitive advantage?
Duncan Nuggets are evidence-based success principles and action steps focused on soft skills.
Along with The Five Soft Skills Clusters framework, Duncan Nuggets have been used by over one million people in dozens of schools, intuitions, and organizations.
Duncan’s Five Soft Skills Clusters
Communication Skills
Decision Making & Problem Solving Skills
Teamwork & Collaboration Skills
Self-Management & Professionalism Skills
Leadership, Influence, & Persuasion Skills
Who is the site for?
Students, young professionals, and people working with them.
Everything on DuncanNuggets.com is specifically designed to help you improve your soft skills.
Your organization can join dozens of others that use the free videos, articles, and activities on this site as part of their soft skills, character education, and college & career readiness training.
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Some of the people who are using DuncanNuggets.com are:
- Teens and Young Adults
- HR and Talent Development Professionals
- Workforce and Career Development Professionals
- Educators and Learning Professionals
- Counselors, Youth Workers, Social Workers
- Mentors & Coaches
- Juvenile Justice Professionals
NOTE: At the end of many of the videos and articles you will find either an activity, action steps, discussion questions, or a combination of all three.
What are soft skills?
Duncan Nugget #144:
Soft skills are personal abilities that improve your performance and facilitate effective interactions with other people.
“If you are looking for a powerful set of tools that will help you gain a competitive advantage in the 21st Century, then mastering your soft skills is a great choice. Experts ranging from psychologists to business leaders; educational and spiritual leaders, agree that one or more of the soft skills have the greatest impact on your level of success…”
Click here to read the rest of this article: Q & A: What are soft skills and why all the fuss?
An introductory video series on soft skills
What is a competitive advantage?
Like many entrepreneurs and business professionals, I spent a lot of time studying the concept of competitive advantage. One day I realized that a lot of the same principles apply to people. I played around with the business definition and came up with my own for individuals:
“A competitive advantage is the ability gained through your performance and resources to thrive in your personal and professional life.”
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Books & Posters
The Leading Soft Skills Training Program for STEM Students. Check out S3TEM.com
The 5 Soft Skills Clusters
Click here for a list of soft skills definitions, and behavioral indicators.
