Why Your Company Needs to Invest in Soft Skills Training?!

Findings by the Stanford Research Institute found that 75% of long-term job success depends upon soft skills mastery.

Why Your Company Needs to Invest in Soft Skills Training?!

When your workforce is lacking in soft skills, you may notice that some elements of your business face challenges. 

“Unfortunately, some people believe that soft skills aren’t that important. However, almost every employer I’ve ever talked to about this disagrees.” 

– Chris Jones, Chief Executive at City & Guilds 

Findings by the Stanford Research Institute found that 75% of long-term job success depends upon soft skills mastery and only 25% on technical skills. 

When your workforce is lacking in soft skills, you may notice that some elements of your business face challenges. 

According to Glassdoor, Top Five soft skills are, 

(i) Communication Skills 

(ii) Leadership 

(iii) Team Work 

(iv) Strong Work Ethic  

(v) Positive Attitude 

Thankfully, soft skills are highly trainable. Employees with soft skills training are better-liked, happier in their jobs, and more likely to stick with their company. 

Employees with soft skills training are better-liked, happier in their jobs, and more likely to stick with their company.

Soft Skills training comes with following unparalleled benefits to an organization,

(i) Enhanced Productivity 

(ii) Increased Team Morale 

(iii) Improved Human Relations 

(iv) Reduced Supervisory Needs 

(v) Improved Organizational Performance 

Long story short, the importance of soft skills training of your employees – both new and experienced – really cannot be underrated. It's important to focus as much on soft skills training and development as we do on traditional hard skills.

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Building Truly Employable Graduates

I always encourage students to take training and development sincerely, because it helps them transform themselves positively.

Building Truly Employable Graduates

The soft skills that most employers want in a candidate are strong communication skills, team work, problem solving abilities and a positive attitude because most work requires interacting, collaborating & convincing co-workers & clients. 

According to government estimates, 12 million Indian youth between the ages of 16 and 29 enter the workforce each year, only 8% are considered to be employable. 

With the Indian economy growing at more than 7% every year, it is estimated that it will need around 109 million skilled workers to support the 24 key sectors of the economy. 

There is a huge need for vocational education programs to be set up in all parts of the country to help bridge this skills gap as the majority of jobs will be available in India’s fast-growing services sector. 

The soft skills that most employers want in a candidate are strong communication skills, team work, problem solving abilities and a positive attitude because most work requires interacting, collaborating & convincing co-workers & clients. 

I always encourage students to take training and development sincerely, because it helps them transform themselves positively. Many congratulations to dear Neelesh Srivastava (DIT University) for his sincere preparation that led him to clear 6 tough interview rounds. 

His example clearly confirms the very fact that success doesn't just come and find you, you have to prepare for it and do the work required to reach it.

Success doesn't just come and find you, you have to prepare for it and do the work required to reach it.

Meet Balram Jha (Doon Business School)! One of the most dedicated students who rarely missed any of training and development sessions and made sure to always give his best.

Today, he is successfully employed and the credit goes to his hard work and dedication.

As he was preparing for getting better at his interview skills, we had extensive mock interviews and he rigorously followed up on the feedback. Today, he is successfully employed and the credit goes to his hard work and dedication. 

Long story short, by developing their students’ hard skills & soft skills, vocational training programs can ensure to build truly employable graduates who can quickly help bridge the ever increasing skills gap in the Indian economy. 

By developing students’ hard skills & soft skills, vocational training programs
can ensure to build truly employable graduates

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*If you like this blog post and wish to share your experiences/ remarks/ views with me, you are most welcome to write to me at pdpbygauravmisra@gmail.com. Thanks!