In this economic crisis, corporate training budgets are being tightened

Sometimes, economic crisis is the mother of great invention. This is the opportunity; training and development programmes are a costly investment which will yield rich dividends in the long run.

After analysing working trends of corporate training organisations and how they react to various economic conditions, it is important to be well-equipped with soft skills and hard skills. Our education system can be made effective if the road that we take from school to professional courses is not all theoretical and technical, but also focusses on the holistic development of an individual.

We forget to develop one’s personality to survive and grow in any industry. Today the mantra is team work, so it should be remembered that along with handling machines and issues or numbers, equal amount of attention should be paid to people training programmes or soft skills, which include techniques and methods of developing effective interpersonal skills.

Although soft skills are important for people in any profession, they are of utmost importance to the managers. This is the reason why some of the top MBA institutes have added soft skills as a special course in their MBA and PGDM programmes. But this change has to start from the grass roots level – from school to professional world. As Harvey Ullman says anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but constantly becomes more valuable regardless of physical capacity.

Today, technical and behavioural skills go hand in hand therefore, it is not possible for anyone to overlook these skills. It is not just important how effectively a manager can achieve his targets, but it is equally important how effective he is in managing people. Click here to read more....

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