The lack of soft skills in leadership and the workplace is a widespread phenomenon that hinders communication amongst employees and the accomplishment of corporate goals. An interdisciplinary academic programme with courses from management, sociology, psychology, communications, and anthropology came to fill the gap.
Nordic Business Forum took place on September 24-25, 2025, at Messukeskus in Helsinki. It explored the theme ‘Moving Forward’, focusing on the subthemes of Foresight, Growth, and Culture.
In rapidly maturing digital markets, the so-called Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs) constitute the place where everything happens in the modern workplace. Threads replace chain mails, virtual teams save employees from fruitless and time-consuming meetings, chatrooms allow for instant collaboration.
It is about the way we understand things, the way we perceive, decode and interpret intended messages and meanings in any place for any purpose. From web forms to cultural aesthetics and from the business environment to civic life.
By Dr. Demetris Kamaras* “We live in an age of constant input. Music plays in our ears. Podcasts stream without pause. News updates arrive minute by minute. The scroll never stops. From the moment we wake until the moment we sleep, we are listening—to everything and everyone but ourselves.” “But if we never pause to listen to our own mind, how will we know what is there? How will we recognize the clutter that needs to be cleared, the unresolved emotional experiences waiting to be addressed, or the patterns that must be adjusted in the subconscious?” This is the intro
As we enter 2025, the landscape of work continues to evolve at a rapid pace, World Economic Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi writes in the introductory text of the “The Future of Jobs Report 2025”.
PwC’s Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey 2024, the fifth in a series dating back to 2019, finds that more than half of workers feel there’s too much change at work happening at once, and 44% don’t understand why things need to change at all.
A team of research and academics in the UK were engaged in a vast research project that included 2,800 interviews conducted face-to-face, and an additional 2,650 interviews which were carried out online.
A few years ago, ‘The Economist Intelligence Unit’ sponsored by ‘Lucidchart’ examined some of the perceived causes and effects of communication barriers in the modern workplace.
The Centre for the Development of Vocational Training run its first AI skills survey in spring 2024. As argued in an explanatory note, while recent studies have alleviated fears of massive job destruction that could ensue due to the adoption of AI tools and systems at work, there is still scarce evidence about the actual use of AI tools and applications by European workers and their consequences for workers well-being.
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