全球智库信息集成服务系统

Key Findings:

• Soft skills most often considered very or extremely important to success in the workplace and that correspond to self-regulation skills include: time management, problem-solving, interpersonal skills, flexibility, work ethic, organizational skills, composure, confidence, perseverance, the ability to focus attention, the ability to delay gratification and control impulses, and emotional intelligence.
• TANF programs are beginning to look to the research on self-regulation to identify strategies they can implement to strengthen participants’ skills with an eye toward improving participants’ employment outcomes and proactively responding to the needs of the business community.
• Employers can provide training opportunities and mentoring to develop employees’ self-regulation skills.
• The investment employers make in their employees can have profitable returns.