Soft Skills Training

Everyone is realizing the need to have better soft skills in order to succeed in personal, professional and social lives. In the last few years there have been numerous articles and reports on lack of soft skills across various segments of population. From school children to college graduates, from working professionals to entrepreneurs. Today organizations, schools, colleges are all looking to instil soft skills among their students and employees. With this huge demand soft skills training is a sought after profession and the prospects are extremely bright. Although there are thousands of soft skills trainers in India, almost none of them are certified neither have they gone through any formal training to train others on soft skills. Most of these trainers are English Language teachers since soft skills are generally associated with proficiency in English language. However the truth is that soft skills are much more than knowing English language and training others on soft skills requires much deeper understanding of the subject matter coupled with excellent training skills.

Benefits of a Career in Soft Skills Training

Growth industry

Soft Skills Training as a profession is poised to grow tremendously in the coming years. The need will keep becoming more pronounced with competition increasing by the day. India has the largest young population in the world and it will keep growing each year. Survival of the fittest will be the norm and soft skills will be the deciding factor.

Interesting work

Being a Soft Skills Trainer is fun and fascinating work offering you incredible variety. You will never be bored as no two assignments will ever be the same, and each one will provide you with new and challenging opportunities to learn and grow.

Personal Fulfillment

Being a Soft Skills Trainer, you have the privilege of helping others, of using your knowledge, skills, and creativity to improve and enhance their lives – in a multitude of little ways that bring a big return. What’s more, you will get to see the results of your work, make your vision a reality, and contribute to the overall greater good of the organizations your clients are associated with and of the society.

Fantastic people

This profession is all about people. You get to work first hand with people. You will be directly instrumental in their successes. Clients are particularly pleased when the people in their lives complement them on their soft skills. As you will discover, many of your clients become good friends – some for life.

Independence and Flexibility

If you decide to start your own Soft Skills Training business, you will enjoy the independence and flexibility of being your own boss. It’s your own business and you can work full-time or part-time. You set the goals. You can take or turn down work when you want to, including to refuse to work with difficult people.

Home-Based

Operating a home based business is easy to set up and supports your independence and flexibility. You don’t have to travel any distance to work. If there are children at home, they see the effort that goes into a business and can learn, first hand, a positive work ethic. Older children can help with tasks such as copy work, sorting and mailing etc.

Potential to expand

You never have to become bored or get stagnated working in this field. You can always expand on your work and your target market. If you crave personal and professional growth, this is a field that provides exactly that.

Financial Gain

90% of India needs Image Management and Soft Skills. The industry is similar in potential to the medical field wherein sooner or later everyone falls sick and needs medical treatment. With competition growing fiercer by the day the need is felt by everyone and training and development is one of the biggest industries in India in the next few decades. Soft Skills Trainers charge anywhere between Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 50,000 per day for corporate training assignments. Many of them conduct open workshops on various soft skills topics charging between Rs. 2,000 to Rs. 9,000 per participant. For the serious and passionate Soft Skills Trainer sky is the limit to earning. Again, it all depends on you, your passion, your preparation and your perseverance.

Respectability

No profession brings as much social respectability as that of teaching, coaching and mentoring. The profession of Soft Skills Training is all about that. People will look at you with renewed respect and will often take your advice in trying to change their lives for the better.

You Can Start Now

You don’t have to be super genius to become a Soft Skills Trainer. Clients have different existing skills levels and for every Soft Skills Trainer there is a market. Any kind of training business is all about relative development level of the client and the trainer. Passion about helping people change their lives is the most desirable trait in a Soft Skills Trainer.