Incubadora Talento

Celebration of the final act of the activities of the Talent Incubator for this academic year

On July 2, the Talent Incubator of the University of Granada said goodbye to the 20 students of the Competition Acceleration Program in a privileged environment, the Restaurant el Coso in the Plaza de Toros de Granada.

The event was an informal meeting where the students and coordinators of the initiative shared a pleasant meeting where they could share the lived experiences and the learning acquired during the Program. Given the special characteristics of this academic year where the program has been carried out in a mixed way, both face-to-face and virtual, the act was truly emotional since it had been several months since the students had been able to meet and share moments together. This meeting had precisely that purpose, to create a return to normality where to maintain the spirit of the Program that is based on collaboration, continuous learning and personal development to ensure that these students become true leaders of the future.

The Talent Incubator of the University of Granada has reacted quickly to the current situation of health crisis, quickly adapting and redesigning its training programs to teach them in e-learning mode.

This academic year, the Incubator started three different programs, all with the aim of empowering the participating students with their talent and leadership so that they learn to apply their potential to the existing reality and to assess how they could improve it in the future. The Covid-19 crisis has led to reinforce the importance of this objective, together with the need to change the approach of many of the activities carried out.

In this context, the Incubator has wanted to maintain its planned activities, restructuring the formats but maintaining the essence of the programs and the purposes for which they were created. In this way, the Incubator responds in a manner consistent with a University that has accepted the current challenge by staying active and training its students day by day.

Given that most of the incubator’s training activities were not only face-to-face but experiential in nature on a methodological basis of “learning to learn, doing and experimenting”, the challenge is to transfer this teaching-learning model to digital format. However, each activity is being redesigned to increase students’ ability to take on challenges and develop flexibility and adaptability as key competencies for their future.

Future leaders need to communicate effectively. And since improving communication capacity is possible, the Talent Incubator includes in all its training programs, training activities aimed at developing this key competence for personal and professional success.

As the poet Joseph Brodsky already stated in expressing “Take care of your vocabulary as if it were your checking account”, communication is something that nobody should lose sight of. What is said and as it is said, has a huge impact on the results of any person. Therefore, in the Professional Skills Acceleration Program of the Talent Incubator, knowledge and skills in this field are considered vital for any professional of the future. If communication is mastered, much of the path is already taken …

The seminar “The challenge of communicating effectively” took place yesterday Thursday, March 5, at the Faculty of Business and was taught by the Improbesame company: experts in the development of skills for the company. During the seminar, effective communication and discourse construction techniques were worked on, as well as strategies to overcome stage fright.

The seminar, eminently practical, has been designed following an active methodology based on games and dynamics, many of them coming from the theatrical field where to communicate it is not enough to transmit a message, but it is possible to transmit a coherent emotion to the message that makes the Communicative process a vital tool.

The activity is part of the program of activities of the Chair of Talent and Leadership of the University of Granada, sponsored by the company Alight NGA Human Resources.

The Talent Incubator launches the Supernova Program aimed at promoting vocations in the digital field in high-school high-school female students

25 of the best students of the Bachelor of Science and Technology of five institutes of Granada will participate in an academic and professional orientation program that will provide specific information on university training related to information and communication technologies.

The Talent Incubator of the University of Granada, in collaboration with the company Alight NGA Human Resources, will develop in the coming months this Program focused on the formative projection of female high school students. The objective is to help participants to decide on their future training in tertiary education linked to the digital economy, especially in training related to information and communication technologies.

The program is based on maintaining and supporting vocations that students may have as a starting point, and complementing their decision with the contribution of objective information on qualifications that, even with outstanding work potential, are minority selected by girls.

Also note that the Supernova Program has, in addition to the direct impact on the group of selected girls, a marked nature of transfer and dissemination. Therefore, the program includes, beyond academic and professional advice to participating students, different initiatives to raise awareness among teachers and families, as well as high school students in general.

The University of Granada, together with the company Alight NGA HR, continues to bet on the development of talent and the high capacities of its brightest students

Tomorrow, January 24, at 12 noon in the Convalescent Room of the Royal Hospital, the presentation of the Third Edition of the Program of Acceleration of Professional Competences of the Chair of Talent and Leadership of the University of Granada will take place.

Pilar Aranda, Rector of the University of Granada and Aitor Vinós, Vice President of Alight NGA Human Resources will participate in this event along with Alberto Aragón and Lola Vidal, Director and General Coordinator of the Talent Chair.

Once again, 20 of the best students at the University of Granada will work on developing high performance skills. The 20 participating boys have been chosen for their high potential and for 6 months they will work on the development of highly demanded competencies within the labor market such as the development mentality (wanting to grow and improve continuously), concentration capacity, communication skills , the capacity for innovation, teamwork, leadership and emotional intelligence, among others.

On this occasion, the participants will also work in depth on the sustainable development objectives, following the current university policy to support the objectives set by the UN for the year 2030. This is intended to ensure that this edition has a markedly social character where boys work to support disadvantaged groups, thus developing their ability to improve their close social environments through collaborative initiatives.

As on previous occasions, this Program is fully funded by the company alight NGA Human Resource, which actively works with the University of Granada to develop the talent and potential of its students.

The University of Granada and NGA Human Resources renew their commitment to fostering university students’ leadership and transformation capacity through the Talent and Leadership Chair, with the signing of a new collaborative agreement by Dean Pilar Aranda and Feliz Montalbán Jiménez, financial director of NGA-HR.

The event was also attended by Alberto Aragón, General Director of the Talent and Leadership Chair; Lola Vidal, General Coordinator of the Chair; Aitor Vinós, Vice President of NGA-HR; and Álvaro Santaella, Director of NGA’s Granada branch.

The Chair has launched the first Talent Incubator in a Spanish university. The Chair develops innovative, cutting edge activities and training programs focused on strengthening competencies which are vital for success in today’s business world, such as leadership, social-emotional intelligence, teamwork, or creativity.

The Talent and Leadership Chair’s Female Talent 4.0 Program, sponsored by NGA-HR and aimed at bridging the digital gender divide that exists in Spain, continues with its professional competencies training activities with their Personal Development Workshop “Wake up: It’s your attitude that counts”, given by María del Mar Méndez, professor at the University of Granada and personal development coach.

The event, presided over by Sol Ostos, Director of the International School of Postgraduates and with the participation of Juan Alberto Aragón, Director of the Chair; Alvaro Santaella, Coordinator of NGA-HR; and Lola Vidal, General Coordinator of the Chair, closed the second edition of the Competencies Acceleration Program.

The Talent Chair marked the end of the Professional Competencies Acceleration Program with an Intensive Training Session that kicked off with the “Communicate well to lead well” Seminar, given by Ana Marfil, professional coach. In that Session, Javier Delgado and Natalia Ortiz, Student and Program Quality Coordinators, conducted a valuable seminar in which they analyzed the activities carried out throughout the year with the objective of improving future editions.

The Talent Chair organized a program with a view to encouraging students to develop their careers in companies in the digital sector. The Program commenced with a session, which was attended by 80 students with the best academic record of the 50,000 at the University of Granada The session was presided over by Pilar Aranda, the first woman to hold the position of Dean at the University of Granada in its almost 500 year history and Aitor Vinós, Vice President of NGA-HR, the company which sponsors the development of this initiative.