Essential Soft Skills Training
Afri Training Institute (ATI) recognises the importance of developing your employees holistically. As the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the workplace continues to rise, essential soft skills training is increasingly important for employees to grow, and for your business to succeed.
Also known as “power skills” or “core skills”, the essential soft skills for the modern workplace are human-centric capabilities that emphasise emotional intelligence and human interaction. The United Nations lists competencies like systems thinking, communication and collaboration, critical thinking and problem solving, and self-awareness among these critical soft skills.
ATI offers customised, essential soft skills training that is impactful and fit for purpose. Our offering includes credit-bearing and non-credit bearing open or client-specific workshops designed to develop these core human-centric skills. As your work environment adopts new technology to stay sustainable, your employees need more than the skills to use this tech – they need the skills to engage with it critically and work well together.
From communication skills and critical thinking to personal effectiveness and team building, our soft skills training programmes are designed to empower your teams with the human capabilities that are essential for success in our evolving world of work – capabilities like empathy, curiosity, accountability, adaptability and judgment.
How ATI’s Essential Soft Skills Training Works
- Our customised offering includes credit-bearing and non-credit bearing workshops that align with your business goals.
- We develop the essential soft skills that sustain trust, organisational culture, measurable performance and business impact, and that cannot be replaced by AI.
- We equip your workforce with human-centric core skills needed to strengthen teams and advance within their roles.
- As your team gains self-awareness and learns to collaborate more effectively, productivity, engagement and motivation is enhanced.
Our Approach
ATI’s human-centric and inclusive approach to soft skills training ensures your employees develop capabilities that will serve them – and your business – for the rest of their careers. Each programme is aligned with your business’ cultural and performance needs, ensuring learning is aligned with the work environment you want to foster and the future you want to build.
Essential Soft Skills Training Offered by ATI
Our wide range of credit-bearing and non-credit bearing workshops are designed to empower your workforce from entry level to management. Courses include topics from emotional intelligence and cultural awareness, to leading and motivating teams, problem solving and change management. Download our company profile for a full list of available courses.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who would benefit from Soft Skills Training?
All employees at all levels of seniority in your business could benefit from soft skills training. Entry level new joiners could benefit from training on business ethics, how to have difficult conversations effectively or even simple telephone etiquette. Newly promoted supervisors or line managers could benefit from training on building high-performance teams, managing conflict or how to lead their direct reports. Even your most senior executives could benefit from soft skills such as cultural awareness or how to lead and motivate staff.
Why does soft skills training matter in the workplace?
All employees at all levels of seniority in your business could benefit from soft skills training. Entry level new joiners could benefit from training on business ethics, how to have difficult conversations effectively or even simple telephone etiquette. Newly promoted supervisors or line managers could benefit from training on building high-performance teams, managing conflict or how to lead their direct reports. Even your most senior executives could benefit from soft skills such as cultural awareness or how to lead and motivate staff.
I’m interested in completing soft skills training with ATI. Can I apply in my personal capacity?
ATI offers open soft skills workshops. Contact us to find out how you can join one of our upcoming open soft skills training workshops.
Who would benefit from B-BBEE Consulting?
Newly appointed B-BBEE Champions, B-BBEE Officers or Company Representatives in need of guidance on how to develop their B-BBEE strategy OR a refresher on changing legislation and industry charters.
HR, Marketing, Procurement and Supply Chain, Sustainability and other professionals who plan, deliver, and report on initiatives intended to contribute to elements of the B-BBEE scorecard and improve B-BBEE audit outcomes.
Anyone in your business who provides guidance and support to line managers and business leaders on implementing B-BBEE initiatives.
Business leaders and line mangers interested in, or responsible for, producing measurable diversity and inclusion improvements in their teams.
Why Choose ATI?
B-BBEE is a cornerstone policy in South Africa, aimed at: