Soft Skill Trainer - How to become a Soft Skill Trainer

Soft Skill Trainer has become an indispensable emplyee of every organisation in the recent past. Witnessing cut throat competition in this globalized era every organization whether it is private or state run, is looking for something extra for its prospective customers. To remain in the competition these organization have to provide not only the quality products but also quality before and after sales services. No doubt that the advancement in the technology in recent years has been able to provide state of the art products and as far as efficient services are concerned, they entirely depend upon the skills of employee.

Thus big organizations particularly cooperate ones, are seeking those individuals who are smart and well groomed. They are expected to have the kind of communication skills that they can outsmart any one in their competition. For which they provide training to their employees once they are recruited. Here comes the role of a Soft Skill Trainer. He is the professional expert in inculcating the required skills in the employees and helping him in his career development. Since most of the people are born with the  raw talents but they need polishing and grooming to make fullest use of this hidden talent, a number of private institute are set in market that are doing this job for them. These institutes are catering to the need of these organizations and in return earning a lot of money thus, providing an attractive job option for a Soft Skill Trainer. He is the person responsible  to inculcate the qualities that includes communicative skills, listening skills, team skills leadership quality, creativity and logic, problem solving skills and readiness to change to name a few of them. Although it is supposed and to some extent write also that the soft skills are generally gifted and cannot be learnt from a book or any other passive medium. Still, formal training can help to learn tips and techniques by being keen observer, an eager learner and an assiduous workman religiously putting to practice all that have been taught by an expert Soft Skill Trainer. Soft skills may help improve career prospects and enhance personality as a whole that may prove vital in career assessment and career development.

Thus to become a Soft skill trainer a person himself should have all those qualities that he wants to inculcate into his pupils i.e he should have ability to make Decision, Alertness, Assertiveness, Attention to details, Calmness, Commitment, Cooperation, Emotional stability, Empathy, Flexibility, Generosity, Tolerance, self-confidence, self-control, self- reliance, self-respect, honesty and sense of humour to name a few of them.

Young and energetic people with desire and capacity for hard work  and flare for teaching can get both money and satisfaction in   this profession. For this there are specific short term and long term courses available which one has to undergo.

Eligibility

1. Educational Qualification

Bachelor’s degree in any discipline preferably with social sciences, liberal arts and humanities is required to take up a course in this field although these are not the compulsory requirements.

How to become a Soft Skill Trainer

To become a Soft Skill Trainer one has to follow th following given steps

Step 1

Interest candidates have to join 6-12 month courses in soft skills, here are a few institutes which organize short term course for soft skill training:

• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
• National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training Chandigarh
• National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training Kolkata
• National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training Bhopal

Step 2

After completing this 6-12 month course in which one has to go through all the major aspects - like Cooperation, Communication, Work Ethic and Leadership. Cooperation requires demonstrating the ability to compromise on their views, treating team members with respect, and working within a consensus of the team. Communication here requires a dynamic interaction among team members and inviting and providing feedback and resolving conflict. Work ethics includes accepting responsibility for assigned work, completing any assigned tasks and doing so on-time, and offering assistance to other team members when required-One can join some organization as a Soft Skill Trainer or go for his own Organization providing this kind of education to the aspirants

Soft Skill Trainer Career Opportunities

Enormous employment opportunities are available for Soft Skill Trainer in private as well as public sector organizations. Most of the organizations are now providing their employees the training of soft skills in order to improve their positive communication, interpersonal and team skills, problem solving, adoptability and work ethics. This in turn has a positive impact on their business and personal lives on one hand and increases the productivity of the organization on the other.

So after completing a course in soft skills, one can get a job of soft skill trainer in any of private or public organization and earn a handsome salary in return. Besides they can be engages by individual to hone their skills. Now a days they can find work even with individuals like political figures, models and film stars who want  improvement in certain area like business, leadership skill etc. coming under its preview.

Soft Skill Trainer Salary

Soft Skill Trainer  can expect a starting salary anything between Rs.15,000 to Rs.20,000. After gaining some on job experience one can earn as good as Rs.25,000 per month and more.  All these monetary gains depend upon one’s own ability.