Soft-Skills Training Interventions: Avoiding a ‘Fight, Flight or Freeze’ Response!

This paper introduces a number of frameworks which explore some of the deeply embedded, underlying psychological motives which can underpin a person’s overt behavior. More awareness of such matters will enable the soft skills specialist to intervene with more insight, sensitivity and care. Particular attention is given to insights from the field of evolutionary psychology and how innate subconscious motivational drives influence overt behavior in the workplace. The importance of the drive for power and influence runs as a significant underlying theme connecting the material covered. A fuller awareness of such dynamics can facilitate greatly the effectiveness of soft skills training and development interventions. Whilst the material covered is directed towards soft-skills interventions, it has relevance for all those in positions of organizational seniority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]