This study suggests that for a variety of reasons, male and female students do not bring in the same sets of soft skills into a college classroom. The impact of their educational experiences on male and female students is different.
Higher education is being challenged to improve work-related soft skill development. TTI SI is playing a major role by providing tools that help document skill level and acquisition over time. This article includes a published cross-walk showing how our DNA 23 assessment and the US National Research Council’s 21st-Century Skill list overlap.
VAA Sheri Smith has published a description of key competencies and behavioral styles found among a set of senior business managers. These skills include: persuasion, interpersonal skills, teamwork, negotiation, leadership, resiliency, conflict management, flexibility, personal accountability and self-management.
This award-winning paper studies 1,800 top performing housing sales personnel using an array of TTI SI assessments. Questions addressed include, but are not limited to: What do these top salespeople have in common? What are the values (motivational drive factors) of the top performers? Are these values different from mid-level and lower sales performers?
While GPA has been proven to be a poor indicator of success, there is growing evidence that grades at times correlate with either the professor’s behavioral style or the institution’s cultural expectations. Results in this study indicate that three behavioral factors – Analysis of Data, Organized Workplace and Frequent Change – had significantly different mean scores between the three GPA groupings.