How easy is it to learn soft skills?
Success of a business depends on soft skills and hard skills of its employees. So the question arises what works better, Soft skill or hard skill? Most businesses claim that their success is a result of better use of employee soft skills. Hard skills are important but soft skills outperform when it is about team performance. Team engagement is more about the soft skills. Hard skills are important to deliver a task but soft skills ensure that it is done in a right way by the team. To be innovative and agile you need more of soft skills than any hard skill.
Organizations are rapidly adapting to the change, innovations, delivery quality, adhering to the timelines, providing superior customer support and along with all these have collaborative approach towards team of diversified culture. Organizations make use of the soft skills of their leaders to ensure that everyone is in sync and working towards achieving the organizational goal. This is the reason organizations are giving equal weightage to soft skills before hiring an employee. In industry it is the biggest challenge to find the person with required hard skills and soft skills as well. So, organizations look out for the person who is good at various aspects and missing some aspects that can be easily trained. The biggest question is if the Soft skill can be trained? The answer can be either YES or a NO depending on various factors of learning.
Soft Skill Training – YES or NO!!
Some soft skills are like a personal trait that can or cannot be changed even after training. It is generally observed that you cannot even train to change the trait of a person. Trait of a person still not to be necessarily expected to change after the training. It cannot be really termed as soft skill. It is bit difficult to literally define the term soft skill. It is an intangible skill and hence it’s difficult to measure its role in accomplishing or executing any task. Is it really possible to improve the soft skills and can it be measured?
The other soft skill type “leadership quality” can be trained and can be measured as well. Such soft skills directly or indirectly make huge impact on the overall performance of the organization. Thus it is possible to measure the effectiveness and comparative analysis done. It is more about adapting the leadership quality to bring the change in the organization.
How difficult is the soft skills training?
Soft skill training and its effectiveness depend on the trainee. Most of the trainers say that even if it is the same training for many learners, the outputs are different for each individual. Sometimes even industry experts feel that soft skill training is difficult than hard skills. The next question is: Can anyone learn leadership the same way that he can learn typewriting or any other technical skill? Is it the same effort required to learn soft skill and hard skill? Some may agree to say YES. It completely depends on the learner how quick he or she tries to learn any skill. You can start learning skills through some online learning platform. It is very much convenient and easily accessible. The easiest way can be learning through interactive videos that help the learners to visualize and learn.
CONCLUSION
Is it really possible to succeed without technical skills? Many researchers claim that success largely depends on soft skills than technical skills. Soft skills help in being creative and successful while technical skills help in performing a task.