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Soft Skills Workshops with External Trainers: Getting Them Right
Soft Skills Workshops with External Trainers: Getting Them Right

Author(s): Borka Richter, Troy B. Wiwczaroski
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Debreceni Egyetem Politikatudományi és Szociológiai Intézet
Keywords: employee development; soft skills; management; workshop development; employee motivation

Summary/Abstract: Soft skills development workshops can serve multinational organizations towards the improvement of internal communication between employees of various language background sattempting to collaborate on tasks and issues in performing their daily activities. Employer and management expectations of these workshops may not be consistent with those of employees and this gap can lead to employee pushback and even refusal to internalise and utilise theenvisioned workshop key learning points that management wants them to develop. On the basesof years of professional experience as co-trainers holding soft skills development workshops andreceiving employer and employee feedback on their work at dozens of multinational companiesin Europe, the authors discuss critical milestones which must be met by management, in order tolay the groundwork for more successful soft skills workshops at their organisations

  • Issue Year: 6/2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 54-70
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English