The Cult of Me

Capital Times reporter Mike Ivey discusses the "cult of me" in his July 16 Business Beat column.

A July 14 article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ("Employees lack in basic skills training, report claims") caused me to take another look at it.

Excerpt: Joanne Krueger can attest to the conclusion of a report released Tuesday suggesting that employers find new hires inadequately prepared for work.

Increasingly, employers need to provide remedial training in such areas as workplace etiquette, conflict resolution and teamwork [RG's emphasis], said Krueger, president of the Metro Milwaukee Society of Human Resource Management.

"You can hire for skill sets, but really it's the interpersonal skills that can derail you in a profession," Krueger said.

Link to "The Ill-Prepared U.S. Workforce".