Corporate Training

From the boardroom to the classroom, individuals are looking to improve their performance to make significant strides in the business world as solutions to improving the bottom line. Self-improvement is one of the fastest growing areas in most book stores. Everyone appears to be looking for that magic pill for how to improve their performance results or what we call success.

There are hard skills and there are soft skills. Soft skills is a sociological term relating to a person's “EQ” (Emotional Intelligence Quotient), the cluster of personality traits, social graces, communication, language, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that characterize relationships with other people. Soft skills complement hard skills (part of a person's IQ), which are the occupational requirements of a job and many other activities.

A person's soft skill EQ is an important part of their individual contribution to the success of an organization. Screening or training for personal habits or traits such as dependability and conscientiousness can yield significant return on investment for an organization. For this reason, soft skills are increasingly sought out by employers in addition to standard qualifications.

Until the development of soft skills are partnered equally with the training of hard skills, the quest for success will continue to allude those who are trying to improve their performance.

Hard Skills:

Hard skills are technical or administrative procedures related to an organization’s core business. Examples include financial and accounting knowledge, internal controls, computer protocols, safety standards and sales administration. These skills are typically easy to observe, quantify and measure. They’re also easy to train, because most of the time the skill sets are brand new to the learner and no unlearning is involved. Hard skills are the minimum skills necessary to do a job. Most people with the same level of education and experience should have roughly the same level of hard skills.

In People Powerhouse Ltd. we provide a vast bouquet of courses covering almost all corporate functions like, but not limited to; Finance, Accounting, Internal Controls, Marketing, Sales, Project Management, etc. .

Soft Skills:

Soft skills, (also called “people skills”) are typically hard to observe, quantify and measure. People skills are needed for everyday life as much as they’re needed for work. They have to do with how people relate to each other: communicating, listening, engaging in dialogue, giving feedback, cooperating as a team member, solving problems, contributing in meetings and resolving conflict. Leaders at all levels rely heavily on people skills, too: setting an example, teambuilding, facilitating meetings, encouraging innovation, solving problems, making decisions, planning, delegating, observing, instructing, coaching, encouraging and motivating.

Obviously, people come to organizations with interpersonal behavior patterns already thoroughly ingrained, and they weren’t learned in a classroom. Instead, individuals learn how to deal with relationships and other life challenges “on the street” at a very early age. They observe how the people around them do things, they experiment, and they stick with what works for them. So everyone ends up with a unique portfolio of people skills; some behaviors may be effective, but others cause problems. By the time employees get to a training room, they’ve already worked hard for decades to reinforce the way they deal with people. Like all behavior patterns, interpersonal skills are “hard-wired” in the neuronal pathways of the cerebral cortex. This means that at some point a behavior was repeated often enough that neurons grew dendrites that reached out to other neurons to make the connections needed to make behavior pattern automatic. A myelin sheath coated the cells like electric wire insulation, making the connection extremely efficient. The end result: these ways of behaving now feel natural, easy and comfortable.

People Powerhouse Ltd., has a vast variety of courses that includes, but not limited to, Presentation Skills, Leadership Skills, Corporate Etiquette, Corporate Communication, Memo Writing Skills, E-mail writing skills, People Management, Conflict Management etc.From the boardroom to the classroom, individuals are looking to improve their performance to make significant strides in the business world as solutions to improving the bottom line. Self-improvement is one of the fastest growing areas in most book stores. Everyone appears to be looking for that magic pill for how to improve their performance results or what we call success.