Studies by Stanford Research Institute and the Carnegie Mellon Foundation among Fortune 500 CEOs established that 75% of long term job success resulted from soft skills and only 25% from hard skills (Sinha, 2008). Since 2008 the importance of soft skills has increased more. Understanding has grown that perhaps the soft skills may ultimately more important than hard skills in career development and determining levels of success. Soft skills enable people to effectively navigate their environment, work well with others, perform well, and achieve their goals with complementing hard skills. But traditionally, people don't receive adequate soft skills training – either during vocational instruction or as part of on-the-job training. Ironically, for many people, so-called soft skills are often some of the hardest skills to develop. A study by the UK consultancy Hall Aitken found that employers view a range of soft skills and capabilities as even more important in relative terms than qualifications, with 85% rating them as very important compared to 27% for qualifications. The study was commissioned by national agency YouthLink Scotland to demonstrate the value of youth work, described in the study as ‘an educational practice contributing to young people’s learning and development’. Nevertheless, youth work mostly concentrates on the development of soft skills at young people, while the development of the same skills at youth and youth NGOs workers stays aside. Though their needs in soft skills are not less (and even more) than at any other professionals. Having developed soft skills and opportunity to improve them raise the quality of youth work and the possibility to transfer them to young people. In August 2017 we conducted the questionnaire on soft skills among our partners - European youth NGOs. 42 youth and NGOs workers and youth leaders answered the questionnaire. 100 % of the respondents consider that soft skills are important for their personal life, work, and career development. 66 % from 42 respondents think that there is a lack of trainings on soft skills for them (please read more about the questionnaire results in the next question). These results were cross-checked in 2018 and the further need for training was required as the number of respondents rose to 70%. Achievements: Based on our research, the questionnaire, personal communication with youth, youth NGOs workers, youth leaders and our own experience we decided to develop the training course on soft skills for our partners who took part in the questionnaire and showed the interests in the project. Thus the training course aims to develop and improve the soft skills for all parties concerned for their professional development and raising the quality of youth work across Europe. The objectives of the training course are: 1. Make participants familiar with the current concept of soft skills, different groups of soft skills, and their importance in personal and career development. 2. To give to the participants the platform to further the problems with the soft skills they face personally and in their work. 3. Develop and improve the next groups of soft skills at the participants: Personal and interpersonal skills; Communication skills; Presentation skills; Creative thinking; and Leadership skills. 4. To give to the participants the space to share their experience and best practice on development/improvement of soft skills. 5. To improve participants’ professional competencies, to increase their motivation and satisfaction in daily work. 6. Improve the quality and efficiency of participants’ work for the benefit of the participants themselves, their organisations and the target groups of young people, while applying developed/improved soft skills. 7. To improve the soft skills at young people the participants work applying developed/improved soft skills and developing more activities on soft skills for young people. 8. To improve the quality of youth work in general. 9. To inspire the participants to promote soft skills development among their colleagues, youth target groups and other youth NGOs.