Soft Skill

“Soft skills. The new wellness-based leadership and management” is one of the few texts in English (with a Spanish version) about the so called "transversal skills" in business management, in current employees and in applicants seeking admission to a job position.
From the genre "business and management", it is aimed at the increasingly demanding market of management and supervisory executives, at different levels, in all industries, as well as current employees and applicants for most positions.
The "soft skills", human skills that can be developed, such as initiative, the ability to innovate, self-motivation, time management, the ability to learn, unlearn and relearn continuously, etc., are increasingly considered indispensable for achieving the objectives of productivity and profitability, and for the entry, permanence and progress in a work position.
The perception and consequent awareness of the paramount importance of Soft Skills for physical, emotional and mental health and well-being of individuals, and their optimal performance in all fields, is not only applicable to the achievement of productivity and profitability objectives of companies, but has reached the level of international organizations, countries, regions and cities.
We mention in the text the international organizations, nations, regions, cities and companies that have adopted a welfare management for the achievement of optimum performance.
And we also describe how mega corporations such as Google, Airbnb, South west Airlines, the Belgian Social Security, etc., have instituted the executive position of CHO, "Chief Happiness Officer", or "Welfare Manager", with the mission of determining the conditions for the members of a company to express their sense of purpose...with direct repercussions on their optimal performance...and on the achievement of organizational objectives.
These facts are not romantic: multiple studies have shown that happy employees, who find and can express their sense of pur