From Key Skills to Useful Measures: A Review and Inventory
InformReview and Inventory of Measures of “Soft” Skills By Laura Lippman, Senior Technical Advisor, FHI360 and Independent Consultant As the evidence base on the importance of social and emotional skills for fostering multiple positive outcomes grows, international youth development programs increasingly want to focus on developing and measuring those skills (which they tend to refer to as “soft skills” or “life skills,” as those terms are widely used by employers, international youth program funders and implementers, and youth themselves). But which skills to focus on? And how to measure them? To help these programs focus on the skills that are best bets for fostering success in the workplace, positive sexual and reproductive health outcomes, and reducing violent behavior, USAID funded […]
