Over the last twenty to thirty years, understanding has grown that perhaps the soft skills may ultimately be more important than hard skills in career development and determining levels of success.The development and recognition of soft skills is one of the priority of European Commission educational programmes, including Erasmus+, and youth work in Europe. Nevertheless,youth work mostly concentrates on the development of soft skills at young people, while thedevelopment of the same skills at youth and youth NGOs group leaders stays aside.Though theirneeds 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 a group leader of any NGO andpossibility to transfer them to young people. The development and recognition of soft skills is one of the priority of European Commission educational programmes, including Erasmus+, and youth work in Europe. It has valuable results. Moreover, we conducted the questionnaire on soft skills among our partners-European youth NGOs(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jFBL98F7utHWU2FWpX-9gEYsWaRCUU8BPxL7ARe0ysE/edit#responses). 22 youth and NGOs workers and youth leaders answered the questionnaire. Looking at the results, 100 % of the respondents consider that soft skills to be important for their personal life, work and career development. 90% from 22 respondentsanswered that they are not taught soft skills at school/university. 90% underlined that they have to think creatively in order to solve problems and exploit opportunities. 63% of respondents do not know how to develop your soft skills.100% think that TC on Soft Skills for Inclusion would be useful. Youth work mostly concentrates on the development of soft skills at young people, while the development of the same skills for youth workers as group leaders (as the main body of the sending or applying NGO) stays aside.Being a group leader requires not just organizing skills but much more than at any other professionals. Having developed soft skills and opportunity to improve them raise the quality of youth work and possibility to transfer them to young people. The objectives of the TC "BRIDGING SOFT SKILLS GAP"are: 1) To get 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 space to analyze deeper the problems with the soft skills they face personally and in their work. 3) To develop and improve specific soft skills at the participants: personal and interpersonal skills. 4) To give to the participants the space to share their experience and best practice on development/improvement of soft skills, realize their personal needs possible contribution of each partner. 5) To improve participants’ professional competencies, to increase their motivation and satisfaction in daily work. 6) To improve the quality of youth work in general. 7) To inspire the participants to promote soft skills development among their colleagues, youth target groups and other youth NGOs. The project is built up in accordance with the objectives, priorities and important features of the Erasmus+ Programme in the youth field; "improve the level of key competences and skills of young people, including those with fewer opportunities, as well as to promote participation in democratic life in Europe and the labour market, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion and solidarity, in particular through increased learning mobility opportunities for young people.... " and "enhance the international dimension of youth activities and enhance the capacity of youth workers and organizations in their support for young people. The training course will host 24 participants from 7 Programme countries, including the main applicant.The participants are group leaders that took part in the questionnaire and/or their colleagues, who want to improve/develop certain soft skills (that were mentioned before) for their professional/personal growth.The skills will improve their communication within the target the groups, theteams, partners and stakeholders and raise the quality of their work with young people.The trainingis based on the needs of group leaders of NGOs workers and youth leaders and of partnerorganisations.They are all above 18 years and fluent in English. The main results of the project will be: 1) developed certain soft skills at the participants; 2) improved the quality and efficiency of participants’ work for the benefit of the participants themselves, their organisations and the target groups of young people; 3) Improved soft skills at young people; 4)Promotion of soft skills development. The outcome will be a guidebook prepared especially for Group leaders with all necessary information and pieces of advice.