A major study led by researchers from Innovations for Poverty Action and the World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab explored whether socioemotional skills, often called soft skills, can improve business performance. The study found that socioemotional skills training, especially in negotiation and perseverance, can raise women’s agribusiness profits by over 50 percent when combined with capital and technical support. However, the gains depend heavily on supportive social norms and do not automatically translate into greater household empowerment. Read more on Devdiscourse about the findings from this study, and read more here about the evidence on soft skills.