Soft Skills: A Professional Wrangle

Both AACSB and the companies that hire our graduates want them to have soft skills. But our teaching environment does not make it easy to teach these skills. Two problems: 1) How do you teach these soft skills? 2) How do you measure students’ acquisition of them? To give students the opportunity to practice these skills, some teachers step out of the limelight. What methods could be used and how can we assess soft skill learning? How do innovators get support from colleagues, chairs, deans, and evaluation procedures? We don’t have all the answers; please bring yours!