The other way of acquiring soft skills we looked at is self-training, usually based on
books. As we saw earlier, changing of personal traits often requires long-term practice
and therefore self-training might be more useful regarding the improvement of this
category of soft skills. Additionally, during the last decade another method of selftraining
has become increasingly popular: Electronic Learning, usually abbreviated
to e-learning. The article “Yes, web based training can teach soft skills” (Horton,
2007) emphasises the practicality of this approach.