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3. Giving hard feedback… to a robot?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Will business students of the future learn essential soft skills in virtual reality?<\/p>\n

Meta sure hopes so.<\/p>\n

The tech giant is donating $300 Quest 2 headsets to 15 U.S. universities that use VR as a pedagogical tool.<\/p>\n

The VR headsets will be put to different uses at the different universities. Suffolk University students will use them to observe molecular structures in 3D. Arizona State students will use them to learn and practice foreign languages. But at Stanford University and the University of Iowa, professors will use them to teach “soft skills” to business school students \u2014 like how to have a difficult conversation with an employee.<\/p>\n

This could help solve a longstanding problem with management: People often get promoted for technical skills or performance, not for how well they manage people. Then, there is no practice space. Unlike learning a musical instrument or a language, where the path to improvement is clear, managing people is messy. Leaders could spend 10,000 hours<\/a> making the same mistakes, over and over again.<\/p>\n

With these specialized tools, the hope is to create a practice space for soft skills.<\/p>\n

And until your personal robot arrives, come learn with Six Seconds!<\/a><\/p>\n

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What’s going on? One part of the explanation is low emotional intelligence. Asia had the lowest average EQ of any of the 7 geographic regions in theState of the Heart report– and emotional intelligence is correlated with employee engagement – for both managers and employees. But there is also a long cultural history here. The Japanese termkaroshi— “death from overwork” — was coined back in the 1970s.

研究表明,工作与生活的平衡和employee engagement are still a major problem.

3. Giving hard feedback… to a robot?

Will business students of the future learn essential soft skills in virtual reality?

元肯定hopes so.

The tech giant is donating $300 Quest 2 headsets to 15 U.S. universities that use VR as a pedagogical tool.

The VR headsets will be put to different uses at the different universities. Suffolk University students will use them to observe molecular structures in 3D. Arizona State students will use them to learn and practice foreign languages. But at Stanford University and the University of Iowa, professors will use them to teach “soft skills” to business school students — like how to have a difficult conversation with an employee.

This could help solve a longstanding problem with management: People often get promoted for technical skills or performance, not for how well they manage people. Then, there is no practice space. Unlike learning a musical instrument or a language, where the path to improvement is clear, managing people is messy. Leaders couldspend 10,000 hoursmaking the same mistakes, over and over again.

With these specialized tools, the hope is to create a practice space for soft skills.

And until your personal robot arrives,come learn with Six Seconds!

Thank you for reading the browser version of Emotional Intelligence at Work, a newsletter about workplace culture, employee wellbeing, and how to create sustainable, thriving businesses.If you want to get the monthly newsletter free in your inbox, you cansubscribe here.