Some businesses find that their new employees lack basic interpersonal skills such as lack of ability to work with colleagues as a team. What are the causes and suggest possible solutions?

Organizations today want their employees to have soft skills, along with, the core skillfulness required to perform a job. However, many employees lack soft skills. I shall analyze some causes and possible solutions to this challenge faced by companies.

First and foremost, our schools and colleges lack this orientation. The curriculum lacks training on interpersonal and other soft skills such as negotiation, assertiveness, and leadership skills. Though there is a lot of focus on teaching other subjects, these knacks are always ignored. In addition, structured training at home is also absent. Further, many do not even feel these knacks are vital, while others do not believe these can be developed with some effort. Moreover, a lack of content and institutes teaching these skills also is an issue.

It is crucial to find ways to impart people’s interpersonal skills. First, schools and universities can expand their syllabus to introduce training on interpersonal skills. If this content is taught from the beginning, employees and employers will not face issues pertaining to communication and other soft skills. If the companies feel that employees need training on some skills, they can take the initiative in this direction. Today, many corporates train their employees on whatever soft skills they want their workers to have.

Finally, nobody works in absolute seclusion, especially when one works at a company. People have to deal with other people, such as colleagues, vendors, or clients. Thus, everyone needs to be good at interpersonal communication and relationship building, but these aptitudes are missing in people. Some reasons and ways to tackle these issues have been discussed in the essay.