The so-called soft skills or powerful skills are increasingly essential for job success. Today, society needs well-rounded citizens, with knowledge and leadership tools that allow them to face the challenges of the 21st century and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
In the job market today, both headhunters and companies increasingly value these skills, recognizing their importance for success in an ever-changing environment. Teamwork, assertive communication and leadership, among others, are skills that are developed throughout life, but also during higher education, which is why it is so important to include them in the curricula of undergraduate and graduate programs.
The academy must promote human development in a universe marked by artificial intelligence and other technological tools. That’s why, The Grancolombiano Polytechnic has developed programs that allow its students to think, act and be different, according to the roles they play in different contexts.transforming the individual from the being, through the application of tools and activities in different scenarios, effectively accompanying their project and quality of life.
The objective is clear: with students better prepared in powerful skills, society will have leaders who transcend the scenarios in which they are immersed, capable of influencing, directing and making decisions that promote projects for the benefit of an entire community.
Education for life
At Poli they understand that the process of becoming better human beings and better professionals never stops. For this reason, the institution strengthened its postgraduate offering, understanding the needs of a world that in recent years has faced great changes.
It has a flexible offer of postgraduate courses in face-to-face and virtual modalities that adapt to students from any location in the country and of any age. so that they do not have any obstacles and continue with their training. Virtual programs provide the possibility for more people to access education, since the modality promotes autonomy and offers time flexibility that adapts to the pace of each student.
Regarding the offer of specializations and master’s degrees, it remains at the forefront to train the professionals that the labor market demands and who are not only prepared to generate real changes in the world, but also to transform their lives and those of their families. in a positive way.
The great challenge is to offer adequate training for the needs of today’s students, but with a vision of the future: jobs that do not yet exist, technologies that have not been invented and unknown situations.