SOFT SKILLS TRAINING
SOFT SKILLS CATALYSTS
At LAAS By Genius, we offer immersive soft skills training that transforms teams and cultures.
Our customized programs use interactive simulations and real-world labs to build communication mastery, emotional intelligence, inclusive leadership, and professional etiquette.
By practicing real-world scenarios, learners gain the empathy, self-awareness, and emotional dexterity needed to drive results. Our trainings instill the interpersonal skills that strengthen collaboration, resolve conflicts, and elevate organizational performance.
Invest in your people and unlock their full potential through our transformative soft skills development.
Pre-Training Assessments
- Interactive video simulations with branching scenarios to assess emotional intelligence and soft skills proficiency - Immersive videos recreating common workplace situations like difficult conversations, team conflicts, high-pressure client meetings, etc. Videos branch based on choices made, scoring competencies like communication, empathy, and professionalism.
- Online self-assessments on soft skills strengths and development areas - Research-backed
self-evaluations allowing employees to honestly rate themselves across key soft skills like adaptability, decision making, time management, persuasion, etc. Provides personalized
feedback.
Soft Skills Fundamentals Training
- Communication Skills Mastery
- Active Listening Techniques - Videos modeling active listening behaviors like maintaining eye contact, avoiding interruptions, and asking clarifying questions. Skills practiced through
interactive role-plays. - Constructive Feedback -Principles for providing clear, actionable feedback that motivates positive change. Videos of effective/ineffective feedback conversations.
- Presentation Skills - Guidelines for delivering poised, compelling presentations covering
body language, vocal variety, visuals, handling Q&A. Self-critique exercises. - Written Communication - Best practices for crafting clear, professional emails, reports, and messaging across mediums and situations through real-world scenario examples.
Emotional Intelligence Development
- Emotional Self-Awareness - Videos exploring emotional self-knowledge, and realistic
self-confidence. Self-assessments to identify emotional strengths/triggers. - Emotional Self-Control - Modules on managing disruptive emotions, and staying composed under pressure through simulation drills featuring high-stress situations.
- Social Awareness - Building empathy, organizational awareness, appreciating diversity through interactive videos highlighting differing perspectives.
- Relationship Management - Developing interpersonal skills like conflict resolution,
teamwork, inspirational leadership, and change coaching using immersive branching scenarios.
Personal Effectiveness Training
- Time Management Strategies - Prioritizing, planning, scheduling best practices. Videos
modeling effective vs ineffective time anagement. Tools/techniques for optimization. - Creative Problem-Solving - Steps for innovative problem solving and decision making. Interactive ideation sessions applying methods to real business challenges.
- Adaptability and Growth Mindset - Science highlighting the benefits of an adaptable, growth-oriented mindset. Strategies for continual learning and navigating change.
- Goal Setting and Self-Motivation - SMART goal setting modules. Visualizing success through motivational videos. Building self-discipline and grit simulations.
Workplace Professionalism
- Business Etiquette - Training on professional workplace etiquette and protocols through immersive video scenarios covering meetings, emails, office norms, etc.
- Managing Professionalism - Videos detailing ways managers can model and uphold organizational professionalism standards across areas like conduct, communication,
accountability. - Ethics and Integrity - Modules covering ethical decision making, integrity-based behaviors, organizational mission/values using ethical dilemma case studies.
- Personal Branding - Guidelines for developing a respected personal brand through consistently demonstrated competence, character and commitment.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Mastery
- Unconscious Bias Training - Videos and assessments to increase self-awareness of implicit biases. Strategies to counteract biased behaviors and decision making.
- Inclusive Leadership - Training on leading inclusive teams, promoting psychological safety, and fostering an environment of belonging through servant leadership.
- Celebrating Diversity - Building cultural competence by appreciating diversity of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives through interactive lessons.
- Equity in Action - Ensuring equitable policies, processes and procedures. Videos exploring workplace equity cases and frameworks to drive fair practices.
Post-Training Assessments
- Comprehensive soft skills simulation - Interactive video testing full proficiency across communication, EQ, personal effectiveness, and professionalism in a realistic scenario.
- Soft Skills Certification Exam - Scenario-based multimedia exam assessing full comprehension and application of soft skills principles.
FAQs
The training covers a comprehensive array of essential soft skills including communication, emotional intelligence, personal effectiveness, professionalism, and diversity/equity/inclusion competencies. Specific skills like active listening, providing feedback, time management, problem-solving, adaptability, business etiquette, and unconscious bias are explored in-depth.
The training uses a highly interactive, multimedia approach incorporating video scenarios, branching simulations, self-assessments, and real-world application exercises. Content is delivered through self-paced online modules as well as instructor-led virtual classroom sessions.
Before the training, employees go through self-evaluations and interactive video simulations to benchmark their existing soft skills capabilities. After completing all training modules, they are reassessed using comprehensive scenario-based simulations and certification exams to gauge their proficiency gains.
Absolutely. While the core curriculum covers universally applicable soft skills, all content including video scenarios, case studies, policies, and exercises gets fully customized. This ensures the training aligns seamlessly with your company's unique culture, values, protocols, and strategic priorities.
A key focus is on developing diversity, equity, and inclusion competencies. This includes unconscious bias training, strategies for inclusive leadership, building cultural intelligence, and ensuring equitable practices. These skills empower employees to contribute to a truly inclusive, psychologically safe workplace environment.
The training provides ample opportunity to practice applying skills through interactive scenarios that mirror real-world workplace situations. Employees also create specific action plans to integrate new soft skills and behaviors into their daily work. Follow-up skill reinforcement resources like job aids and coaching help ensure sustainable behavioral change.
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Unlock your team's full potential through our tailored soft skills training solutions. We'll partner closely to craft an engaging, multi-modal learning experience that develops essential interpersonal capabilities. Build communication mastery, emotional intelligence, personal effectiveness, inclusive leadership, and a culture of professionalism. Contact us today to collaborate with our soft skills experts in designing an immersive training journey that drives sustained behavioral change.
Attempting to scale our eLearning team internally to meet rapidly growing content demands would have entailed tremendous recruitment costs and delays.
Engaging Genius Publicity's LAAS solution
provided us with a proficient eLearning team immediately,
enabling us to boost productivity sustainability without prolonged hiring efforts.
CLIENT:
CHRIS -
As a small L&D department, we struggled to produce training content quickly enough for the organization. Partnering with Genius Publicity & leveraging their LAAS offering was tremendously valuable. Their team of experienced eLearning professionals empowered us to accelerate course development enormously. What previously would have required years of internal effort was accomplished in a matter of months.
CLIENT:
SARAH -
"Partnering with Genius Publicity for their LAAS solution was the best decision we made from a corprate training perspective. Their rapid course development and localization enabled us to upskill employees globally at the pace our fast-changing industry demands!"
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