Has any company-paid training or workshop other than in actual job skills ever done you any good?

• Social styles.
• Teamwork and collaboration.
• Leadership.
• Project management.
• Workflow dynamics.
• How to deal with difficult personalities.
• Presentation skills.
• Time management.
• Dealing with change.
• Multicultural project teams.
• Et cetera.

If you’ve attended company-paid workshops, taken classes to enhance job-related soft skills, spent worktime in all-day offsites, or signed into online people-skills training sessions—has any of it done you any good?

Not including actual training in core job skills and use of tools, what of value have you learned at these things? Has any of it stayed with you beyond the environment in which you learned it?