other skills that are gaining increasing importance are those that are most inherently human in nature and thus difficult for robots and machines to emulate variously termed soft skills transversal or transferable skills and behavioural interpersonal and socioemotional skills so too are competencies and attitudes such as creativity intuition imagination curiosity risktaking openmindedness logical thinking problemsolving decisionmaking the ability to engage in contact and interact with others empathy and emotional intelligence communication persuasbn and negotiation skills networking and teamwork and the capacity to adapt and learn new abilities education and training policies at all levels should aim to strengthen such abilities skills and attitudes among current and future workers