Sinéad Bovell

speaker

170 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 15 Jun

Sinéad Bovell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques · 297. Agency Over Anxiety: Communicating in Uncertain Times · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah, and this is a tricky one, right?

Because we've spent the last 15 years hearing a lot about the more technical skills and how important they are.

And it's not that they're not important.

It's just that the half-life of the average technical skill is now between 2.5 to 5 years.

So that just means if you are leaning into technical skills, you're going to have to expect to continue to upgrade and change.

So when we think about the soft skills, and I don't even know if they're soft skills, because skills like self-directed learning, adaptability, communication,

These can be more challenging to learn.

You have more opportunities to do so.

You can exercise some of this just at home or in the grocery store.

But they do appreciate overvalue because these are the skills that the tools that we're working alongside can't yet cultivate.

So when it comes to leaders, first of all, you have to guide by incentives, right?

So what type of work are you incentivizing?

And this is something I actually do see in organizations.

So maybe a KPI or an OKR or some sort of benchmark.

doesn't yet account for the fact that you want your employees to demonstrate a different type of skill.

So you suddenly tell them communication is really important here and there's no opportunity for that employee to deliver their presentation in a way that they can express themselves in a different format aside from just some sort of email or some sort of attachment.

So you do want to try to align the incentives with that directive and

if you can also demonstrate it, and then also give people examples to show why that skill is relevant.

So if we're trying to get people to build judgment skills or build critical thinking, where does that matter in their workflow and how they get evaluated?

And again, that comes back to the incentive systems because what people don't want to feel like they have to do is add more on top of something that they're not even getting evaluated on.

Showing 21–40 of 170 · page 2 of 9