Furthermore, experts say e-learning is not suitable for companies that are pressed for time and need to train employees to master particular soft skills as soon as possible. In such cases, they should look to in-person training immediately. Also, skills i.e., leadership is such a difficult skill that it cannot be learned by sitting at a computer for a few minutes, even for a few minutes a day.
If e-learning is to be useful in the development of soft skills, it must be prepared to suit specific employees' needs, strengths and weaknesses. Here, however, we are just entering the stage of employee development which comes only after a company invests in revealing its employees' potential and prepares specific individual development programs for them. And even in this case, it cannot be done without in-person training, at least in the initial and final phases of training.
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Article source Chief Learning Officer - a U.S. magazine and website focused on L&D