Incubadora Talento

New seminary of the Poli-lingua Programme for highly linguistic learners focuses on the vital issue of change management.

Everything is changing all the time. Economic, social and technological changes are happening every day at a speed unimaginable a few years ago. These changes will significantly affect the jobs and the qualifications and skills expected of workers in the future. The new economy is demanding new professions and skills to develop in a working environment of constant transitions, disruptions and changes in strategy.

The new, increasingly digital economy requires learners to develop new types of skills that enable them to thrive in an increasingly automated and information-intensive environment. The workers of the future, in addition to the knowledge needed to handle technology, will require other skills that are more diffuse and difficult to identify.

For all these reasons, the Talent Incubator organised this seminar for reflection and analysis on the skills that students need to develop in order to adapt, in an agile and flexible way, to the digital economy. The seminar, sponsored by the multinational Alight, took place on 20 January at the Faculty of Business Studies and was given by Gema Campos, executive and team coach and specialist in human resources management.

The new edition of the Poli-lingua Programme to promote Linguistic Talent in our University has started.

The Programme was inaugurated on Friday 13 January in the Salón de Grados of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts with the presence of Simon Suárez Cuadros, Vice-Dean of International Relations of the Faculty, Heidi Bassa, Senior Operations Manager Nordics of Alight Solutions and Lola Vidal, Co-Director of the Talent Incubator.

After the inauguration, the first workshop of the Personal Development Programme took place under the title “Wake up: it’s your attitude that counts”. With this workshop, the 12 participants of the programme begin to work on personal development and leadership, creating an opportunity for learning, growth and self-improvement through self-knowledge. The aim of this activity is to offer useful tools to the participants to enhance their capabilities and develop their potential, acquiring and developing their own leadership model that allows them to make conscious decisions, to know their strengths and what they want to achieve in their professional careers and in their personal lives.

The workshop is part of the activities that the Talent Incubator develops through the sponsorship of the company Alight Solutions to support young university students with high potential.

The participants of the 6th Edition of the Professional Skills Acceleration Program visited the “School of Solidarity” Foundation to launch a Social Collaboration Initiative with this NGO.

The 20 students of the Program visited this Foundation whose purpose is to recover the family sense of people living in social exclusion. During the visit, they were welcomed by the founder of the organization, Ignacio Pereda, who showed them the facilities and explained that the School of Solidarity is based on the concept of a universal family where people live in community and where anyone is accepted regardless of their creed, ideas, religion or conviction.

The Foundation welcomes people living in uprootedness, social disadvantage, mistreatment or exclusion: mothers with children in emergency situations, young immigrants, adults and adolescents at risk. The Foundation currently has 20 open houses, 180 people and more than 30 children and its funding is based on contributions from members and the Food Bank.

In this context, students participate in a high performance team development activity whose purpose is to help the Foundation in any of its basic needs. The aim of the activity is for participants to improve their service leadership skills, increase their level of commitment to the Program, achieve a deep and integrated learning of teamwork skills, be able to boost performance at both individual and group level through self-knowledge and increase their employability by facing situations completely different from their normal activity, developing their ability to adapt to the environment and to change.

The activity was very well received by the participants and will end in March with an exhibition of the results.

The conference “Research Career, beyond the dossier”, held on 14 December, was attended by 145 people interested in knowing in depth what are the grants currently available in Europe to access funding to develop a research career.

The conference was organised by the International Projects Office of the University of Granada in collaboration with the Talent Incubator, and it presented numerous current grant programmes through which interested parties can currently find funds to be able to devote themselves professionally to research.

At the end of the period established for the development of the “GOOGLE CLOUD DIGITAL LEADER” Training Programme, organised by Google and the University’s Talent Incubator during the month of November, 100% of the students enrolled have completed the programme with grades above 8 out of 10 in the four courses included in the Programme.

Considering the online nature of the courses and the fact that many of the students who have taken the courses had no previous knowledge of “digital cloud environments”, we consider the programme to have been a complete success of which we are very proud. The combination of quality materials, the provision of highly committed students and the support provided throughout the programme have been key to achieving such a favourable result.

These data confirm the University’s policy, shared with the multinational Google, which has actively collaborated, on the need to continue reinforcing the complementary offer of digitalisation programmes for students of all university degrees.

The programme was a pilot experience aimed at students who had little training in this area and its objective was to improve the employability of university students by enhancing their digital skills. We hope to continue to run this type of digital training projects in the future.

Congratulations to all participants!

The Rector of the University of Granada, Pilar Aranda, joined us at our last Alumni meeting, and we wanted her to give us her assessment of what this Talent Incubator has meant impact this collaboration between private companies and the University has on the students.

20 of the best students of the University of Granada have received intensive training in leadership and coaching this weekend.

The Talent Incubator of the University of Granada has brought together 20 “Top” students, with the best academic records from different faculties, for a weekend intensive to train in high-performance professional skills and leadership. Enthusiasm, great participation and energy characterised this new class of Incubator students.

Throughout the intensive weekend they worked on “soft skills”, personal qualities that determine an individual’s leadership capacity. Specifically, this weekend is dedicated to training in emotional intelligence where students learn experientially at all times through dynamics and exercises. It is a very practical and highly applicable training where personal development and self-knowledge tools are used. The intensive course marks the start of the 6th edition of the Professional Skills Acceleration Programme, through which, for 9 months, the students create a powerful networking network thanks to the enormous socialisation process achieved by sharing experiential situations and working on beliefs, emotions and behavioural guidelines in a group setting.

Three instructors have guided the students during the two days to analyse how we think, feel or react to certain situations: María del Mar Méndez, Ana Martín-Moreno and Lola Vidal, coaches with extensive experience in training of these characteristics.

The Talent Incubator and the International Projects Office of the University of Granada are organising an informative seminar on 14 December, from 10:00 to 12:00 h., entitled “International Research Career, beyond the dossier”.

The University of Granada considers that the training of new generations of researchers is a key issue in its policy of promoting research, since the acquisition of scientific and technical skills in academic and business environments is vital not only for the development of the country’s international leadership, but is also a fundamental pillar of social and economic progress and welfare.

The UGR-Alight Chair in Talent and Leadership presents the sixth edition of the skills programme for a selection of twenty students with the best grades in their degrees. with the best grades in their degrees

Communication, assertiveness, ability to adapt to change, emotional intelligence, teamwork, are some of the topics of the Professional Competences Acceleration Programme of the Alight-UGR Professional Skills Acceleration Programme of the Alight-UGR Chair of Talent and Leadership, the sixth The sixth edition has been presented at the Royal Hospital of the University of Granada. The programme programme, a pioneer in Europe in this type of subject related to «soft skills», includes a selection soft skills», includes a selection of final year students with the best academic records in six different faculties. in six different faculties – Faculty of Sciences, ETS de Ingeniería, ETS de Informática y Telecomunicaciones, Facultad de Ciencias and Telecommunications Engineering, Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, Faculty of Law Faculty of Law, Faculty of Labour Sciences, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting – and a selection of Master’s and a selection of Master’s students from these same degrees.

The selected students will spend an entire course immersed in activities that will «develop their skills and potential in subjects that are not normally included in their academic programmes. academic programmes, which are essential professional skills as they are the most in-demand in demand in their future professional lives» explained Alberto Aragón, University Professor and Director of the University and Director of the Chair of Talent and Leadership.

The presentation was attended by José Angel Ibáñez, Director of the UGR Communication Management Office, José Angel Ibáñez, Director of the UGR Communication Management Office of Communication Management of the UGR, Alberto Aragón and Lola Vidal, co-directors of the of the Chair of Talent and Leadership, and Javier Toní and Pilar Guillén, General Manager and Director of Service Service Management, respectively, of Alight Solutions. Both the representatives of the representatives of both the university and the company have celebrated this successful collaboration, which is celebrating a new a new edition.

The training programme is made up of three blocks: participative seminars with an innovative methodology based on the principles of the methodology based on the principles of neuro-education with accompanying dynamics. a second block with individualised coaching sessions; and a mentoring session where each student has access to a mentoring where each student has access to a mentor from among the management of the company the company sponsoring the project, Alight Solutions. The programme represents a change in the approach with respect to its usual classes that run in parallel, since the Accelerate the Skills Acceleration Programme does not have exams or theory sessions, but is based theoretical sessions, but is based on «learning by doing».

The programme is sponsored by Alight and is offered completely free of charge to selected students. to selected students. Alight is a leading provider of digitised services and has its has its largest European headquarters in Granada. Alight has been one of the of the main private employers of students at the University of Granada in the last year.