Soft Skills Pro from UWI-ROYTEC & Soft Skills AHA  

Overview

Ensuring Employability in the Age of AI

When it comes to getting and keeping a job in today’s rapidly changing robotic world, it’s no longer just the other guy you need to worry about. Artificial Intelligence is fast becoming the greatest competition in the workplace. Technical skills and knowledge are no longer enough to ensure employability. AI has changed all of that.

Today’s employers demand that potential new hires also possess a strong set of essential, real people skills needed to succeed in the workplace. More and more, companies are hiring for attitude and training for aptitude. They have machines that can do a lot of things people can do. But they don’t have a lot of people that can demonstrate strong communication skills, work ethics, critical thinking, problem solving, leadership potential, and a positive attitude in the workplace.

Hard skills, they’ve got.

It’s soft skills they need.

Skills AI cannot replace.

Soft Skills Pro is specifically designed to help participants prepare to enter or re-enter the workforce by equipping them with the essential real people skills and employability traits needed to ensure employability and to meet and beat today’s AI workplace challenge.

Here's how it works.

Get Ready, Prepared, Go!

Watch the Course Introduction Video

Get a glimpse of our engaging online learning platform, interactive lessons, and practical exercises that can help you unlock your own or your students’ full potential to achieve success in both your personal and professional life. Join our community of learners and start your journey towards self-improvement today!

Get Ready! (Compulsory section)

The Soft Skills Pro journey begins with the Workforce and Life Essentials (WLE) Course – an interactive soft skills curriculum designed to prepare participants for work and life success. The Workforce and Life Essentials (WLE) course is aligned with the employability traits that all industries look for when hiring new employees. The WLE course is taught 100% online and consists of the following 10 modules.

Modules

Attitude

It is not your aptitude but your attitude that will determine your success in and after high school. A positive attitude is the essence of life and career development, which is why the most successful companies hire for attitude and train for aptitude. Life produces extraordinary rewards for those who give in extraordinary ways. This seminar will show you how to soar to new heights with an attitude of gratitude that sees life’s challenges as opportunities.

Character

Good character does not just happen. We develop this, each and every day, by the choices we make in all we do. After completing this seminar, you will appreciate the importance of developing positive character traits and be able to explain their benefit in the workplace. You will also be able to recognize personality and behavior flaws that causes difficulties in all areas of our life.

Interpersonal Connection

Interpersonal connection is essential for our well-being and happiness as human beings. Interpersonal connections allow us to share our experiences, thoughts, and feelings with others, and to receive feedback and validation. These connections help us build trust and empathy, which are critical for maintaining healthy and successful relationships in all aspects of life, including personal, professional, and social. In a world where technology often replaces face-to-face communication, nurturing interpersonal connection is crucial.

Diversity & Cultural Awareness

The process of cultural understanding challenges us to stop jumping to conclusions and stop making judgements about other people from our own set of cultural values. Instead, this seminar encourages you to learn about cultural differences so that you can understand why other people behave the way they do. Once you understand and appreciate differences you can begin to more effectively socialize and work with people from a wide range of cultural backgrounds and bridge the cultural gap rather than make it even greater.

Appearance & Etiquette

Studies have shown that thirty seconds is all it takes for someone meeting you to form an entire list of impressions about your character and your abilities. In this seminar we will discuss the importance of appearance, grooming, hygiene and etiquette in your everyday life.

Time Management

In this seminar, you will learn about the essence of time. Those who manage their time wisely lead well-rounded lives, accomplish more personally, as well as professionally, experience less stress and feel better about themselves. This seminar helps you develop strategies for delegating tasks, prioritizing, and increasing your efficiency.

Teamwork

The ultimate goal of any school, organization, or workplace is to achieve overall effectiveness. In other words, the sum should be greater than its parts! Of course, we all want to succeed as individuals, but our primary focus should always be on the success of the organization as a whole. This requires teamwork. This seminar will discuss how you and the teams you are part of work together to display the “a ha!” – Amazing Hospitality Attitude.

Work Ethics

Good work ethics tell future employers what they might expect from students on the job. This module will introduce students to the importance of cultivating solid principles starting now. They will discover that a good work ethic can be the determining factor in how successful they are in school and in life today, and in the workplace tomorrow.

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

The ability to think critically in one of the most important skills you can learn because good thinking leads to a better understanding of the world around you and your place in it. In this module you will learn how to better think critically by asking questions and cultivating a genuinely curious attitude. You will learn that having your own point of view will help you make decisions, solve problems and communicate effectively.

Leadership

A leader is effective because of who he or she is on the inside, and how those qualities are reflected on the outside. In this module, you will learn that you don’t have to have a special set of talents to take a leadership role in your life. Leadership is shown through your everyday action and interactions with others.

Get Prepped (Optional/Additional Resources & Activities)

Career PREP gives Soft Skills Pro participants the opportunity to put their new soft skills knowledge into practice through the creation of a practical Career PREP Portfolio filled with professional development badges and information they can carry with them when it’s time to head out into the workplace. Career PREP Badges include:

• Career Exploration & Survey
• Smart Goal Setting
• Cover Letter
• Resume Building
• Interview Skills

Go! (Optional/Additional Resources & Activities)

Now it’s time for Soft Skills Pro participants to take their newly acquired soft skills to work! Upon successful completion of the Workforce and Life Essentials course, participants will earn their WLE course credential. Additionally, participants also have the opportunity to earn their Soft Skills Pro industry certificate based on successful demonstration of the 10 soft skills in the workplace.

The Soft Skills Pro credential and the WLE course work certificate are proof positive to current or prospective employers that the participant possesses the soft skills and employability traits deemed necessary to succeed in today’s workplace. 

Programme Duration

Up to one (1) year will be provided to complete this programme.

*Participants must complete all modules in order to qualify for certification. 

Mode of Delivery

Online

Programme cost (All modules included)

USD $90.00

TTD $630.00

Why Soft Skills are the Future of work

A degree no longer guarantees a successful career. Transitional skills, also known as soft skills, are now also required, and they are not necessarily certified by an academic qualification. The fact that companies like Google, Ernst & Young and IBM have recently recruited candidates without academic qualifications proves this point. And they are not alone: Apple, Starbucks and other American companies have begun to realise that they need to diversify their workforces. “When you look at people who don’t go to school and they make their way in the world, those are exceptional human beings. And we should do everything we can to find those people,” is the view of Laszlo Bock, former senior vice president of people operations at Google.

The future of work is becoming more reliant on technology and automation, which means that many technical skills that are currently in demand may become obsolete in the coming years. Soft skills, however, are human qualities that cannot be easily replicated by machines. Therefore, the ability to demonstrate soft skills will become even more important in the future, as employers look for candidates who can work collaboratively, think critically, and communicate effectively with others. The modern workplace is becoming more focused on creativity and innovation, and soft skills play a crucial role in these areas. Creative problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills are all important for developing new ideas and bringing them to fruition. As such, individuals who possess these skills will be highly sought after in industries that value innovation and creativity.

As the workplace continues to evolve and become more competitive, employers are placing increasing value on candidates who possess a range of soft skills in addition to technical skills. Individuals who can work collaboratively, communicate effectively, adapt to changing circumstances, and demonstrate leadership skills will be highly valued by employers.

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