Mexico: BIU highlights the importance of teaching soft skills in university education

Learning soft skills

Teaching soft skills can develop well-rounded leaders and improve employability in a competitive work environment.

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO, December 12, 2024 / EINPresswire.com / -- 92% of employers consider soft skills to be equally or more important than technical knowledge, according to LinkedIn.

Broward International University (BIU) underlines the importance of

including them in educational plans to prepare future leaders in a competitive environment. In a globalized and digitalized work environment, soft skills have become crucially important.

These competencies, such as emotional intelligence, leadership, and resilience, have become key factors for employability and professional success. “It is essential that universities adapt our curricula to develop these skills in students. Not listening to the labor market would be a mistake,” said Ferrán Calatayud Ventura, general director of BIU.

In response to this need, BIU developed the SUJIS (Step Up Journey Into Success) program, designed to improve competencies such as networking, problem-solving, and adaptability.

The program consists of three phases:
1-Self-discovery, which helps students identify their strengths, areas for improvement, and goals.

2-Growth, which focuses on developing skills to deal with volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) work environments.

3-Adaptation, which prepares students to integrate into the labor market, comparing their profile with the standards of successful professionals.

“With programs like SUJIS, our students develop critical skills that position them as leaders in a demanding labor market,” added Calatayud. BIU continues to work on innovative initiatives that respond to the demands of the labor market, ensuring that its graduates are not only technically competent, but also complete leaders in their professional field.

Broward International University (BIU)'s learning approach, led by our expert faculty, involves a wide range of dialogic and debate tools, discussion forums, group and individual projects and assignments, weekly chats and a number of regular synchronous video sessions, real-time linking as well as case study and project-based learning and simulations.

In this way, students are permanently provided with an enriching learning ecosystem, which keeps them in touch with different formats, dynamics and simulations of the real business world.