Nagaland Skill & Entrepreneurship Development Mission (NSEDM), in collaboration with Investment & Development Authority of Nagaland (IDAN), conducted a two-day Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop on April 10 and 11 at Eagle Crest Training Academy & Consultancy Institute, East Campus, Dimapur.
The workshop brought together 22 participants from eight empanelled Training Partners, representing sectors such as hospitality, driving, construction, healthcare, and mechanical trades, along with officials from NSEDM.
According to a press release, the sessions were facilitated by founder and CEO of STEP Academy, Worrin Muivah, who adopted an intensive and experiential learning approach. As part of the intervention, a structured communication handbook titled “Presence, Professionalism & Performance: A Communication and Mindset Framework for Employability” was introduced for replication across training centres.
Emphasising continuous self-development, the facilitator noted that while the seed of learning was sown during the training, it required consistent effort, practice, and nurturing to grow. He stressed that communication was not merely a soft skill but a critical hard skill, adding that the key to becoming an effective communicator lay in three principles—“Practice, Practice & Practice.”
Mission & Training Coordinator, NSEDM, Nukholo Swuro, in his opening remarks, highlighted that the intervention was a need-based initiative arising from NSEDM’s baseline survey conducted in December 2025. The findings revealed that nearly 75% of youth expressed interest in skill-based pathways over conventional government employment, while also identifying gaps in confidence and communication skills.
In this context, NSEDM recognised that soft skills are as critical as technical competencies in achieving sustainable employment and entrepreneurship outcomes, and initiated the ToT programme to strengthen trainer capacity at the foundational level.
Under Secretary and Project Lead, NSEDM, Meripeni Ngullie, in her concluding remarks, described trainees as the “real stories” of NSEDM and trainers as the “planters of seeds” responsible for shaping employability. She emphasised the need for more such interventions and encouraged participants to internalise and apply the learning in their own lives before imparting them to trainees, thereby leading through experience and influence.
The workshop concluded with certificate distribution and feedback sharing by participants.
