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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.

On 1 June, students from The Talent Incubator’s Professional Competencies Acceleration Program took to the streets to raise awareness amongst citizens about the importance of reaching the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), also known as the Global Goals.

The diverse activities, which included workshops on climate change, knowledge exchanges with refugees and asylum-seekers, student body surveys on the quality of higher education, role plays about the work of teachers and about inclusive education, were carried out simultaneously all of Saturday morning in different centrally located places.

This past 10 May, students of the Competencies Acceleration Program participated in a group coaching session entitled “Discover your potential,” given by Jorge Blanco with the objective of working on students’ individual leadership through focusing on responsibility, one of the factors that contributes most to their development.

Jorge Blanco is the director and founder of the School of Leadership and an expert in Personal and Professional Leadership, specializing in Productivity Coaching.

On 24 April, Berry Groenestijn, Operations Vice President at NGA HR and Aitor Vinos, Vice President of NGA HR along with students in the Talent and Leadership Chair’s Competencies Acceleration Program analyzed the main challenges of managing multinational companies in this day and age. The colloquium was moderated by Alberto Aragón, Chair Director.

Maite González, Chief Regional Officer and Chief Innovation Officer for MAPFRE RE in southern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, brilliantly explained to the School of Business students how to manage multinational teams and how to establish a unified organizational identity. This conference is one of the open activities that the Talent Chair organizes for University of Granada students interested in such matters.