People & Soft Skills: Essential for Professional Success
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Taught by IBM Skills Network Team
Personal DevelopmentBusiness
About the course
Offered by IBM. Develop key power skills to boost your work life. Master powerful people and soft skills for achieving professional success. Enroll for free.
The dissent
The most-upvoted critical review (14 votes, 1.0★).
“It kept referring to these 'collaborative barriers' but never went into details on each one. What each one was or examples of each. It made it really difficult to follow along and to pass the quiz”
Coursera's 4.7 comes from 6,631 ratings. Of those, 2.7% are 1–2★.
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Reviews read on 23 Oct 2026.Read them on Coursera ↗