Are your people or candidates stacked with technical skills, but lacking in emotional intelligence, confidence and critical human skills like communication, teamwork or negotiation? 

If you’re a recruiter, People & Culture (P&C) leader, or business lead, chances are you’re facing a soft skills gap with your people or candidates. 

This challenge can have outsized impacts on your business such as low talent retention, poor engagement, or stifled achievement of strategic goals. 

Maxme can help. 

Our mission is to democratise human skill development by helping as many people as possible to understand their strengths, maximise their unique potential, and thrive.

So, how exactly can we help solve your talent challenges?

Find the solution below that best fits your situation:

Advisor/Consultant on a hiring journey 

Example roles: Recruitment agent (external), recruitment lead (internal), talent acquisition lead (internal)

You're the go-to person for finding top talent, and the success of your role comes with great nuance. It's more than just matching skills – it's about finding the right cultural fit. 

Your challenge is how to deal with technically strong candidates lacking soft skills, with low confidence or low self-awareness. Sometimes they even have over-inflated confidence. These candidates present well on application, but perform poorly in interviews, assessment centres, and have a low retention rate even when successfully placed. 

How Maxme can help P&C Advisor/Consultants:

• Boosting soft skills: Our programs help develop specific human skills (aka soft skills) capabilities of your talent and those newly placed technically strong talent with low soft skill capability 

• Improving employer reputation: Human skills training will strengthen your employer reputation and EVP, which sets your brand apart 

• Measuring talent capabilities: We can benchmark the human skills capability of your prospective talent, recently placed talent to client, and organisational leaders. 

You lead teams of HR/L&D folks 

Example roles: L&D Lead / HR / Talent / People & Culture

You shape the learning and development strategy, and make final decisions about upskilling, and L&D opportunities for your people. It’s all on you. You know the skills you need to develop. In fact, you really understand the importance of human skill development, and see it as a core part of your L&D strategy for the year ahead. 

You’re worried your employees are burnt out, unhappy and unfulfilled, especially senior consultants who present a major retention issue. 

Your real challenges include getting support for this kind of soft skills development, and finding the right partner to help you implement and deliver on this strategy. 

How Maxme can help HR and L&D leaders:

• Strengthen soft skills: Our programs help develop specific human skills (aka soft skills such as communication, strengths identification, self awareness, negotiation, project management, negotiation, teamwork) capabilities of your people. 

• Improving employer reputation: Human skills training will strengthen your employer reputation and EVP, which sets your brand apart. 

• Measuring talent capabilities: We can benchmark the human skills capability of your people, and report on important impacts and outcomes of human skills development.

You’re running the whole show

Example role: Business lead

Your job is all about maximising team performance, but the success of your business channel’s strategic goals requires all of your people to be working at their best. Right now, you’re not convinced your team has the human skill capability (EQ or interpersonal skills) required to achieve your goals. 

You have a team of highly capable individuals, but they’re not working well as a team. Perhaps they’re struggling to sustain a sense of belonging and cohesion due to hybrid working. Maybe they have lost their sense of purpose and don’t know if they’re adding meaningful value. Research shows that 76% of employees crave a sense of purpose. 

But luckily, you’re a leader who understands the value of human skill development to your people and organisation, and can see how human skills programs like Maxme’s could either help you achieve your mission and strategy, mitigate key problems specific to your business function, or help solve problems you know exist in other business channels. 

How Maxme can help Business Leaders, Directors and Partners:

Maxme's solutions help bridge those gaps by:

• Improving individual and team capabilities: Our programs help strengthen the confidence and capability of all individuals within your team, and your team as a unit. We take your team’s technical capability to the next level thanks to heightened critical ‘soft skills’ i.e. self awareness, communication, negotiation, navigating tricky situations, working well with colleagues, etc. 

• Investing deeply in the talent of existing staff, increasing their engagement and retention.

• Benchmarking the human skills capability of your team/business unit and reporting on the important impacts & outcomes resulting from human skills development. 

Ready to bridge the soft skills gap?

It doesn't matter if you’re early in your talent career or running the whole show, we’re here to help you solve your human skills challenges, and ensure your organisation and people thrive. If you’re keen to know more about us, our human skills programs, and how they could help you, your team or organisation achieve some big wins, watch our Meet Maxme - products and programs demo showcase.

Download the Hodie app to start today, or explore our broader menu of Maxme Products & Programs for organisations and individuals. 

Prefer to talk through your options? Simply contact us at any time.

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