Once upon a time, a very skilled woodcutter asked for a job in a timber merchant and he got it. He was very happy as the pay was really good and his new boss was a very kind person. For those reasons, the woodcutter was determined to do his best. His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he supposed to work.
The first day, the woodcutter brought 30 trees. “Congratulations,” the boss said. “You did really great job!”
Very motivated by the boss words, the woodcutter tried harder the next day, but he could only bring 25 trees. The third day he tried even harder, but he could only bring 15 trees. Day after day he was bringing less and less trees. By the month end, he was able to bring only 5-7 trees a day.
1. Physical Security :
“Am I loosing my strength day by day”, the woodcutter worried. He went to the boss and apologized, saying that he could not understand what was going on.
“When was the last time you sharpened your axe?” the boss asked.
“Sharpen? I had no time to sharpen my axe. I have been very busy trying to cut trees…” the woodcutter replied.
Reflection:
In our lives we need to sharpen our skills day by day. It is highly needed!
There are many benefits when any organization arranges soft skill workshop for their team or employees.
1. More productive employees :
Generally soft skill training session of few hours gives some window to employees to free from work and contribute in training session. These training gives opportunity to "Unlearn - Learn - Relearn", hence in certain way productivity of participants increases after training.
2. Increased credibility with Customers :
Now days customers also tuned to vendor's organization and team. If customer finds that you are putting extra efforts on soft skill training - they are directly going to benefit from it.
3. Increased customers satisfaction :
Team will be more productive and customer will get good impression on efforts taken by you on sharpening your employee's skills. It surely increases customer's satisfaction level.
4. Strong team building :
Team mates attaining soft skill workshop generates good bonding among themselves and they start aligning as better team.
5. Leadership development :
Few soft skill training can boost leadership qualities for employees. Many such sessions, allows employees to set expectations from trainer and training material.
They feel open about clarifying their questions about certain difficulties they are facing which many times they can't share with other co-workers.
Also employees do appreciate their seniors for the opportunity to sharpen their skill sets.
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