Soft skills are key to effectiveness in life.
From self-confidence to communication skills and emotional intelligence, they all play a significant role in determining a person’s success and happiness.
From self-confidence to communication skills and emotional intelligence, they all play a significant role in determining a person’s success and happiness.
Per the World Economic Forum’s “Future of Jobs” report,
emotional intelligence, creativity and people management will be the top skills
required in 2020.
However, 'soft skills training' is always challenging since it
requires people to change their habits that have been developed over a
lifetime. Hence, for any training to be effective in the development of interpersonal skills, it has to allow for repeated practice and provide extensive feedback.
Roleplay with professional actors is a medium that has all these as built-in mechanisms.
Roleplay with professional actors is a medium that has all these as built-in mechanisms.
What soft skills can be honed using roleplay?
1. Self-Confidence: Roleplay helps to build self-confidence
by encouraging participants to practice difficult situations and try out
different strategies in a safe to fail environment.
2. Verbal and Non Verbal Communication: With bespoke or
scenario based roleplay, participants learn to speak more clearly, precisely
and with more confidence, while learning how to vary their pitch and tone. They
also learn the power of pause, the impact of body language, and how expressions
play a prime role in communication.
3. Listening Skills: Listening is a skill that is
usually hard to teach through any other form of training, but by listening to
others’ dialogues effectively, paying attention to body language and
intentional pauses, roleplay can make a difference.
4. Stage Fright: Roleplay-based training helps
participants overcome their fear of being vulnerable in front of others – helping
them feel more comfortable in front of an audience.
5. Self-Development: Through self-discovery, observation
and learning from their mistakes, participants are more aware of their key
development areas. Roleplay encourages to overcome
their fears and improve their abilities. They also stretch themselves based on the
roleplay scenarios, thus discovering their undiscovered potential and talents.
6. Emotional Intelligence: Roleplay helps in enhancing
emotional intelligence. It puts people in touch with not only their own
emotions but also the emotions of others. It helps them to see their impact
through various roles, enhancing their empathy and their capacity to handle
emotions more effectively.
Roleplay based training is a methodology
for training to enhance many competencies, including
leadership, communication, creativity, team building, and emotion management
skills.
It has a great impact besides increasing engagement. It brings change, joy and... a true return on investment.
It has a great impact besides increasing engagement. It brings change, joy and... a true return on investment.
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