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Thursday, 5 November 2026

Professor M. S. Rao’s Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders : Evaluating Soft Skills Training

Professor M. S. Rao’s Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders : Evaluating Soft Skills Training: Globally, there is unemployment due to a dearth of soft skills. The importance of soft skills is felt strongly across global educational ...

Evaluating Soft Skills Training

Globally, there is unemployment due to a dearth of soft skills. The importance of soft skills is felt strongly across global educational institutions to enhance employability and employment, and across global organizations to enhance productivity and performance.

Currently, there is inadequate research available on soft skills. There are several myths about soft skills since it is still an evolving discipline. It is mistaken for people skills, life skills, life management skills, and emotional intelligence, to name a few. Researchers, scholars, and educators find it hard to arrive at a universal definition of soft skills. They find it hard to create a standard curriculum. Additionally, there is an urgent need to explore tools and techniques for measuring soft skills to ensure effective training outcomes. Hence, it calls for intensive research to provide validity to this discipline.

What are soft skills?

Skills are usually divided into technical skills and general skills. Some of the general skills that are behavioral fall into the category of soft skills. Hence, soft skills are a collection of skills that are essential to survive and succeed in personal, professional, and social life. They are complementary to hard skills. Hard skills are also known as technical skills or domain skills. Soft skills can be described as the effective presentation of hard skills. Additionally, how you say it is as important as what you say. That means soft skills are equally important along with hard skills. Hard skills can be seen on your resume, while your soft skills can be observed in employment interviews. A judicious blend of hard and soft skills helps one become a successful professional and excel as an effective leader.

Soft versus hard skills

Soft skills are different from hard skills. Hard skills are technical skills and domain skills, while soft skills are non-domain skills. Hard skills are tangible that are measurable and quantifiable, while soft skills are intangible and cannot be easily measured and quantified. Hard skills are about what you speak, while soft skills are about how you speak with others. Soft skills are polite and pleasing ways of communicating with others, while hard skills are what you contribute in the workplace. Soft skills complement your hard skills. Precisely, soft skills are the presentation of your hard skills in the workplace. Soft skills are interpersonal skills, while hard skills are job-related skills. If hard skills are infrastructure, soft skills are superstructure. If hard skills are the foundation, soft skills are the cement. A judicious blend of both hard and soft skills is essential to achieve your professional success and fast-track your career.

You can find hard skills on a resume, while you can find soft skills during an employment interview. Hard skills get you an interview, while soft skills help you get your employment. Hence, both hard and soft skills are essential to get a job. After joining a job, soft skills help you survive in the workplace, while hard skills help you prove yourself professionally. Hence, blending both hard and hard skills is imperative in the workplace.

Soft versus hard skills―examples and illustrations

If you call someone physically handicapped, it is known as hard skills. Instead, if you call it physically challenged, it is known as soft skills. If you instruct smokers, 'Don't smoke’ is known as hard skills. Instead, if you communicate, 'thanks for not smoking', it is known as soft skills. If you talk about the 'generation gap', it is known as hard skills. In contrast, if you call it 'generational differences', it is known as soft skills. If you call them 'slow learners', it is known as hard skills. In contrast, if you call them 'differently-abled learners', it is known as soft skills. If you call 'problems' hard skills, it is known as hard skills, whereas if you call them 'challenges', it is known as soft skills. If you call 'weaknesses’, it is known as hard skills; if you call them 'concerns', it is known as soft skills. Succinctly, soft skills emphasize how you communicate, while hard skills emphasize what you communicate.

It is easy to measure hard skills, while it is hard to measure soft skills. It is easy to teach hard skills, while it is hard to teach soft skills. Usually, teachers teach hard skills while trainers train soft skills. Since soft skills are behavioral skills, it requires extra effort on the part of trainers to use various tools and techniques, including interaction, role-plays, active participation, and experiential learning, to bring out the desired behavioral changes in the participants.

How to acquire soft skills?

You can acquire soft skills by various means, including observation, reading, training, experience, and practice. Soft skills training equips you with skills, abilities, and knowledge. However, your interaction with others helps you acquire soft skills greatly. Since soft skills are behavioral skills, people must learn by trial and error, using their emotional intelligence and through flexibility and adaptability. You must be practical, realistic, and situational to acquire soft skills. Above all, you must learn from your failures to improve your behavior to gel well with others effectively.

You must develop emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills. You must observe and understand people and their behaviors. Travel to unknown destinations to understand people. Talk to them to get along with them. Understand their cultures and behaviors. Traveling teaches tolerance and improves soft skills. When you travel to unknown destinations and communicate in a non-native language, you will be able to improve your soft skills effectively.

Reading soft skills is one aspect, and applying them is another aspect. Attending workshops and training programs helps you understand what soft skills are and how you will be able to acquire them; such programs conduct role-plays to bring out behavioral improvement. Here are some tools and techniques to improve soft skills

Be self-aware.
Avoid preconceived notions.
Keep your body language positive.
Listen to the speaker carefully.
Make eye contact with the speaker and reciprocate positively.
Empathize with the speaker.
Be flexible.
Praise people lavishly.
Make the speaker feel important.
Accept criticism graciously.
Interact with different types of personalities who are introverted, extroverted, assertive, submissive, and aggressive.
Above all, be adaptable.

Since soft skills are behavioral skills, you can acquire soft skills through physical interaction and trial and error. You must take intrapersonal and interpersonal feedback regularly to improve your soft skills. Succinctly, be proactive, be a good listener, improve interpersonal skills, and build relationships to acquire soft skills.

Can soft skills be measured?

It is hard to measure soft skills, but easy to measure hard skills. Research shows that soft skills are harder to teach than hard skills. Additionally, it takes a lot of time and effort to equip oneself with soft skills rather than hard skills. However, matching the objectives of the soft skills training with the feedback received from the participants can help measure soft skills effectively. For instance, every training program has a set of objectives, and the program is rolled out to the participants accordingly. At the end of the training program, the participants are asked whether the training has met their objectives, aspirations, and expectations. Since soft skills training is behavioral, it is hard to measure. However, taking timely feedback at the end of the training session helps greatly achieve the training takeaways.

Meka's five-level model to measure soft skills

Evaluation is essential to understand the effectiveness of any training program. It helps understand how far the training has impacted the participants and improved their behavior and performance. Additionally, it helps assess the strengths and weaknesses of the program and the pulse of the participants to deliver the training program better next time. Here is an innovative Meka's five-level evaluation model to measure soft skills training:

Conduct the training needs analysis to identify the current skills gap in the participants.
List out core objectives clearly to deliver the training.
Execute the soft-skills training program meticulously as per the objectives.
Align deviations or distractions from the training program.
Measure the training takeaways from the participants through questionnaires and effective feedback.

Sample questions to measure soft skills training

Consider using the following few questions to measure a soft skills training program:

Did the soft skills training transfer the knowledge, skills, and abilities to the participants effectively?
Did the soft skills training improve the attitude and behavior of the participants successfully?
Is the training worth investing time, money, energy, and resources?
Are the training outcomes as per the training objectives? If not, identify and address the deviations or distractions.
List out the three soft skills training takeaways that can improve the attitude, change behavior, and polish the personality.

The concept of soft skills is an evolving domain

Unfortunately, people often take the significance of soft skills lightly. The concept of soft skills is an evolving domain that people must take seriously; people must be educated about them.

Whenever a new discipline surfaces, people resist and mostly don't respect it because there is no strong research to substantiate its relevance. However, over time, people start accepting and respecting the discipline. For example, many people initially did not take management as a discipline seriously and expressed their reservations. Today, management as a discipline is a reality, now having a sacred and respectable position like many other disciplines in the world. Similarly, soft skills will evolve as a discipline over time as more research is done. To summarize, a proportional mix of hard and soft skills helps me excel as a successful professional and leader. Soft skills provide a competitive edge in this cut-throat world. They are an asset to employees and add immense value to global organizations. To conclude, soft skills are essential for everyone, from janitors to chief executives, to achieve the desired outcomes.

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Saturday, 31 October 2026

Professor M. S. Rao’s Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders : Why Craft the Perfect Morning Routine?

Professor M. S. Rao’s Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders : Why Craft the Perfect Morning Routine? : What makes successful people different from unsuccessful people is their morning routine and great habits. Research shows that starting a...

Why Craft the Perfect Morning Routine?

What makes successful people different from unsuccessful people is their morning routine and great habits. Research shows that starting as an early bird is better than being a night owl. A healthy morning routine helps improve your productivity and performance. It cultivates healthy habits. There are innumerable advantages of being an early bird. You will be creative with loads of energy and enthusiasm. The entire day will be under your control. You can plan and execute your tasks effectively. You can kick up your energy to resolve challenges. You can replace your negative energy with positive energy. You will be able to focus on your tasks effectively. You can find creative solutions to complex problems. You will be able to break the most challenging tasks into smaller ones and execute and integrate them into a single entity.

Tools and Techniques to Set Your Morning Routine in Stone

How you start your day impacts the rest of your day enormously. Here are some tools and techniques to adopt early in the morning. Explore different routines through trial and error and finally stick with a routine that excites you every day. Make your bed every morning. When I joined the Indian Air Force, I cultivated the habit of making my bed. It created an outer order and inner calm. Drink lemon water early morning as it cleanses and stimulates your liver and kidneys. It prevents you from catching a cold. It keeps skin young, healthy, and glowing. Create something such as authoring a book or writing a blog post. Avoid your smartphone to check distractions. Distraction is the root of many challenges globally. People have a short attention span because of the rapid growth in technology. They are unable to focus on their important activities. Avoid social media especially checking emails in the morning. Get adequate sleep that is between 6 to 8 hours a day to enable you to recharge your body with fresh energy. Schedule everything. Meditate or do yoga every day. Eat breakfast that is rich in fats and protein. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

A Blueprint for Your Healthy Morning Routine

Here is a blueprint for your healthy morning routine. Recall your dreams. Expand your body after you wake up. Researchers at the University of British Columbia found that when athletes win a race, the more expansive their body language is, and when athletes lose a race, the more defeated their body language. Do breathing exercises, preferably box breathing or alpha breathing. Exercise early in the morning. Celebrities including Anna Wintour, Michelle Obama, Jennifer Aniston, Michelle Gass, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, and Steve Reinemund exercise early in the morning. Write a journal every day. Figure out what the most important priorities are for the day and write a to-do list. Execute the tasks and tick off the things done successfully. Reflect a lot, take feedback, and express your gratitude at night for having a wonderful day. Here are some celebrities with their morning routines. Jane Austen would wake up and immediately play the piano, make breakfast with her family, then write. President Obama does his cardio and weight routine, followed by breakfast with his daughters. Arianna Huffington begins each day with yoga and meditation. Steve Jobs would contemplate this philosophical question: "If today were my last day on earth, what would I do differently?"

If you get up late, you will be disorganized and stressed out. To have control over your entire day, you must have a disciplined morning routine. The time you wake up from your bed determines the kind of person you will become in the future. Hence, rise early to have control over the rest of the day.

I am a Morning Man

I served in the Indian Air Force and became a morning man. Here is my morning routine. I wake up at 4:00 am every day. I express my gratitude to God for gifting me one more day to share my knowledge freely with the world. I drink lots of water that has been stored in a copper vessel overnight. I do neck exercises to strengthen my neck and do eye exercises to improve my vision as I wear spectacles. I brush my teeth, go to the washroom, and do free motion. I go to my laptop to write books and articles for 3-4 hours. I am highly creative and productive early in the morning. I write whatever comes to my mind on the topic that I decided on the previous night—my mind is fresh with peace and tranquility, as there is no noise in the early morning. I am blessed with a brilliant and beautiful wife, Padmavathy, who wakes up a little later and offers me dried fruits and nuts―almonds, dates, cashews, and pistachios. She offers me lemon water mixed with honey. She then gives me tea. My wife is an expert in making tea.

After breakfast, I proceed to the gym. I don't have a bicycle or a car, so I walk thirty minutes to the gym to work out. I do a heavy workout for an hour, as I am a fitness freak. I started going to the gym when I was fifteen years old with the dream of joining the Indian Air Force and serving my nation. I was passionate about serving my nation, and in the armed forces, physical fitness is essential. I was underweight with an asthma problem, but I gradually overcame my health issues and achieved physical fitness. I joined the Indian Air Force when I was 18 years old. I loved the life of wearing a uniform and serving my nation—it is an honor to serve one's country. While working out, I talk to one or two people and inspire them by identifying their personality traits. After my workout, I read the newspaper for 10-15 minutes in the gym. I then walk back home. That means I work out for an hour and walk for an hour every day. After I return home, I read the newspaper and jot down the important points.

In the evening, I remove unwanted and irrelevant information from my mind and the computer system. I plan what I must do the next day. I give commands to my subconscious mind repeatedly about my lifetime ambition to become the President of India. I am the creator in the early morning like Lord Brahma as I author books; up to the night I am the generator like Lord Vishnu as I acquire knowledge; and I am the destroyer like Lord Shiva in the night as I delete unwanted information and irrelevant individuals from my mind. Precisely, I play three roles in a day―Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu, and Lord Shiva, the three Hindu Gods who are known as the creator, the generator, and the destroyer to make a difference in the world.

Have a Great Day!

When you want to acquire great habits, you must understand yourself first because awareness is the beginning of the transformation. When you control your morning, you control your entire day. Be disciplined and focused on your goals. Don't look at others because what worked for them may not work for you. To summarize, get up on time, figure out your priorities, execute them ruthlessly, and exercise every day to have a great day.

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Sunday, 25 October 2026

Professor M. S. Rao’s Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders : Prioritize Tourists Over Tour Operators

Professor M. S. Rao’s Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders : Prioritize Tourists Over Tour Operators: With a growing number of tourists globally, there is an increased emphasis on spiritual tourism than ever before. Tourism is an activity ...

Prioritize Tourists Over Tour Operators

With a growing number of tourists globally, there is an increased emphasis on spiritual tourism than ever before. Tourism is an activity dependent on three operative elements―discretionary income, leisure time, and social sanctions permissive to travel.

Spiritual tourism blends spirituality and tourism. It gives enlightenment and entertainment to visitors. It also offers education as visitors learn many new things during spiritual tourism.

Spiritual tourism is traveling to find purpose and meaning in your life. It elevates your physical, mental, and emotional energies. It develops, maintains, and improves your body, mind, and spirit. In a nutshell, it connects your body, mind, and soul. Hence, spiritual tourism can be defined as traveling on pilgrimage to acquire enlightenment, entertainment, and education, to leave your footprints and take your memories back to your home by expressing your gratitude to God.

Spiritual tourism is not connected with any specific religion. It is different from religious tourism. Spiritual tourism is to connect your body, mind, and soul, while religious tourism is to seek blessings from God based on your religious faith and beliefs and attain salvation. Spiritual tourism is a broader perspective than religious tourism. Religious tourism is a subset of spiritual tourism.

Be a traveler, not a tourist

Some people confuse a traveler and a tourist. There are differences between them. There is a difference between a tourist and a traveler. Most people are tourists, while only a few people are travelers. Tourists follow the road traveled while travelers follow the road less traveled. Tourists observe locals and stay away, while travelers gel with locals and integrate with them. Tourists eat their taste of food while travelers eat local foods and cuisines. Tourists emphasize their native language, while travelers empathize with the locals' language. Tourists often remain in their comfort zones, while travelers come out of their comfort zones and enter into effective zones.

Tourists are time-conscious and sensitive as they have to travel to the destinations as per their schedule. Hence, they don't mix and interact with locals unless they have specific needs. In contrast, travelers have the luxury of time and take time to mix and interact with locals. It is obvious that tourists plan an itinerary and follow it meticulously while travelers are wanderers with ample amounts of time without any itinerary. Tourists are the jack of all trades while travelers are masters of a few trades. Tourists intend to know something about everything, while travelers intend to understand everything about something. Tourists are ordinary people, while travelers are extraordinary people with a passion for traveling.

Tourists take selfies, while travelers take photos with locals and nature. Tourists often ask, 'What are the prominent places to see here?' while travelers often ask, 'What are the unique and interesting places to see here?' Tourists proceed with a purpose, while travelers travel to search for meaning in their lives. Tourists go for various reasons, including education and enlightenment, while travelers go for entertainment. Tourists follow the brochures, while travelers go beyond the brochures whenever and wherever they travel. Tourists travel occasionally while travelers travel frequently. Tourists are missionaries while travelers are visionaries. Over time, tourists can transform into travelers. Succinctly, tourists are subsets of travelers.

Some employees take sabbatical leave to travel to various destinations to unwind and explore the world. There are global organizations that encourage their employees to proceed on business travel to overcome their pressure, enjoy the pleasure of traveling, and improve the organizational bottom lines. There is an increased emphasis on travel globally by all stakeholders. With the rapid growth in technology, it has become easier for people to travel as everything is thrown open.

There are different types of traveling such as solo travel, adventure travel, luxury travel, group travel, honeymoon travel, family travel, event travel, business travel, volunteer travel, and package holidays, to name a few.

Traveling tips

Traveling is a passion for some, while it is fun for others. Some people treat it as enlightenment while some treat it as entertainment. Some people treat it as pleasure while some treat it as a pressure. It all depends on the way people perceive travel. Traveling opens the human mind and helps people look at the world from multiple perspectives. It helps people understand and empathize with others. It helps respect others' cultures and customs. It broadens their mind.

Draw a tentative blueprint of your tour plan. Be flexible. Don't be rigid in your plan to avoid ending up with regrets. Acquire minimum physical fitness if you plan to go trekking and high-altitude walking. Search online about the places before you visit to understand their customs and culture. Carry lightweight luggage. Remember that the less luggage, the more comfortable. Carry clothing keeping the climatic conditions and cultural factors in view. Wear clothes that are comfortable for you. Carry sweaters or jackets if it is a cold climate. Carry a napkin or travel towel. Carry the map and a smartphone to communicate. Don't carry excessive jewelry. Keep cash in reserve because electronic currency may not be available everywhere. Inform your bank about your travel. Carry medicines. Visit genuine hotels to ensure safety. Carry their address cards to locate if you are lost on the way to reach the hotel back safely. Avoid taking hotels near tourist places as they could be expensive and unhygienic. Hence, stay in hotels that are a little away from the tourist points as they could be economical and hygienic. Don't hesitate to negotiate the room rent. Of course, you cannot negotiate everywhere especially the food in the restaurant. Carry the address cards of hotels to show to a taxi driver who can understand easily and take you to the hotel. Carry extra batteries for your camera. Carry the adapter charger for your phones. Top up the phones with adequate amounts to ensure smooth communication. Purchase a local SIM card if you intend to stay for a longer duration to avoid paying more for international calls. Update your whereabouts to your close friends and connections wherever you go to track you in case of any eventuality.

Try new foods but guard against allergies. Eat light food. Avoid eating food that upsets your stomach. Ensure that your bags are right in front of you when you eat. Don't accept anything offered to you by strangers. Don't keep the luggage of strangers with you.

Avoid taking pictures of people without their permission. Understand the local customs and cultures. Seek their permission before you take pictures. Take as many photos as possible. You can delete the duplicate photos later. Don't forget to back up your photos. Carry a hard disk to copy your photos and keep it in the hotel. In this way, you don't lose your precious photos if you lose your camera or smartphone.

Avoid staying in your room for a long time. Remember that you have gone on tour to explore and experiment, not to relax in the room. Therefore, step out of the room to experience the miracles in your life. Don't glue it to your smartphone. Stay away from technology. Enjoy every moment of your life. Explore new places. Avoid talking politics with locals, as they may have strong views and opinions, leading to arguments and altercations.

Avoid keeping your money in one place. Distribute it to different places, including your wallet and baggage. Don't put your phone in the back pocket, as it can be stolen easily. Carry a minimum of two ATM cards and keep them in different places. If you lose one, you will still have one in another place. Avoid using credit cards or ATM cards that demand a foreign transaction fee. Be cautious about public Wi-Fi, as your passwords may be hacked. Use a VPN to protect yourself from hackers. Avoid exchanging your currency at the airport, as you end up paying more. Get a currency converter on your smartphone to convert your currency easily. Get travel insurance.

Carry around spare passport photos. Keep soft copies of your identity cards and passports, visas, and other important documents on your phone or tablet, and hard copies. They help you show your identity if you lose the original ones. Scan the important documents and send them to your email to retrieve if stolen or lost.

Travel in the offseason is a shoulder season to enjoy your journey peacefully with limited money. Purchase unique items to gift to your friends and connections after you return from your tour. Use Skyscanner to find cheap flights. Go by the road less traveled. Keep your travel budget higher than required. If you have surplus money at the end, you can bring it back. Tour unknown and uncharted paths instead of following the beaten path. Pack in the night one day before you travel to save time and avoid forgetting your belongings. Keep used clothes in one bag and unused clothes in another bag. It helps not to open the bag containing used clothes. When you check out the hotel, check out your bathroom, under the beds, desks, and other places where you keep your items. If you go with another person, ask another person to cross-check so you don’t forget to carry your belongings.

Travel at night to save on the amount you pay for a hotel. You can sleep at night, utilize your time effectively and visit the places the next day morning. Learn a few words of the local language, connect with locals, and make your tour pleasant and peaceful. Talk to other travelers and strangers so that you learn a lot from them. Avoid arguments with them. Understand travel etiquette and adopt it effectively. Wear sunscreen. Carry toilet paper. Expect the unexpected. Be prepared for the worst and hope for the best. Journal your activities daily to reflect during your leisure time. They serve as sweet memories. Observe these tips, tools, and techniques to travel pleasantly and safely to reach your home with sweet memories.

Traveling is an investment, not an expense

Tourists are the people who provide bread and butter to tour operators when they travel to tourist destinations. Hence, tourists come first. It is the tour operators who work hard to identify and elevate tourist destinations through various means, including online and offline. Hence, they come second. It is the tourist destination that tourists visit to spend their precious time on vacation. Hence, tourist destinations come third. Many such tourist destinations are still lying untapped due to the dearth of publicity by tour operators and the tourism department.

Tourists have various roles and responsibilities while traveling to different tourist destinations. Although spending leisure time is the main thing, they must understand and respect local traditions and cultures. They must keep the environment safe by not polluting. They must empathize with locals and respect them. They must encourage locals. They must purchase locally made goods and use the facilities of hotels and accommodations by paying reasonable prices. In this way, tourists can promote destinations and sustain tourism.

Tour operators provide information to tourists about tourist destinations, and plan and coordinate with various agencies to create customized packages and services. Hence, they serve as the bridge between the tourists and the destinations. They must provide genuine and accurate information to the tourists. They must plan in such a way that the tourists save their time and enjoy the destinations. They must also charge prices to the tourists because all tourists are not rich. Some of the tourists may have a low budget but are passionate about traveling. The tour operators must educate tourists about the local customs and cultures and ensure safety. If tourists are satisfied, they hire the same tour operators to visit the destinations. They can also refer to others through word of mouth.

The local people in the tourist destinations must treat tourists as guests and welcome them wholeheartedly. They must be warm and friendly with the tourists. At the same time, they must take adequate precautions because not all tourists may have good intentions. They must showcase their local cultures and customs to attract tourists and enable the latter to return with sweet memories. They must provide safety to the tourists and keep them in good humor. They must guide tourists in the right direction and cooperate with the tour operators who work hard to bring the tourists to the destinations. Above all, they must not compromise with their cultural identity.

If tourist destinations are improved and elevated by tour operators, tourists provide repeated business to tour operators by posting online reviews and spreading word of mouth. If tourists are satisfied with the services of tour operators, they stay for a longer duration in tourist destinations. Therefore, it is essential to prioritize tourists over tour operators, and tour operators over tourist destinations.

Reference

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