Something very interesting happened the other day. We were looking for a sales executive who could help us out with our sales efforts. We had interviewed a couple of people but somehow were not satisfied with what we had seen. It was then that one of our associates suggested that we pick up interns from an MBA college. So we had some interns from a particular college sent down to our office. There was a sizable number and we were sure we would be able to find at least one candidate that matched our criteria. So we set out interviewing them one by one. You won’t believe that out of the entire lot of 15, we could only find 1 candidate who we felt could do justice to the task at hand. So what differentiated this candidate from the other 14? Simply his soft skills. Some of the other candidates were technically sound but the common problem with all of them was that they lacked soft skills. We being amongst the top soft skills training companies in India could definitely not have someone represent us who lacked in this very sphere and who needed soft skills training himself! That’s when we realized how important it is for our colleges to actually take students through such courses. They all equip students with hard skills but somehow this front is ignored. Keeping this incident in mind we are conducting campus to corporate sessions for college students. We know how these skills all have their roots in deeper aspects of the self and hence have come up with a yearlong course which can help in the overall development of students. These sessions entail:
In this way we are going all out to help the youth of our country become more employable and become better employees once they get their coveted job!
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So what do you think, can Work Life Balance really be achieved or is it one of those subjects that are best left in the training room? I totally agree. In fact it is one which has puzzled me for a long time and now, finally, I feel I have been able to get a hold on it, a hold on the question and the answer both! I can definitely say that it is achievable and although I can’t say that I have been able to practice it to the extent that I would want to, but am much better at it than I used to be. Just goes to show where inquiry and a deep longing to understand something can take you! So how do you achieve this difficult feat? Well there are a number of factors that go into it. Let’s look at them one by one:
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