183 - Soft skills are POWER skills: Erica Spitale

Erica Spitale joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about the current HR job market, why soft skills should be called power skills instead, and the work-life smoothie. ----  This episode was brought to you by Tilt. Learn more at hellotilt.com/mpl. ---- (2:41) Good news stories (7:28) Erica’s journey and what’s next for her (11:20) The current job market for HR leaders (14:33) How she’s approaching her job search  (18:48) Erica’s obsession with leadership (22:54) What it means to be a manager versus a leader (24:30) The hardest things in leadership are the things that make us human (27:12) To be a leader requires you to think of yourself less and others more (30:21) Building an inclusive leadership series (33:15) What great leadership looks like (36:12) Soft skills should be rebranded to “power skills” (39:00) We need to find metrics to measure “power skills” (41:00) Erica’s superpower skill (43:30) Making leadership a choice, not a requirement (45:37) The work-life smoothie (48:21) Rapid fire questions ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get key learnings & career advice from Modern People Leaders 💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn