Course Description
Your education, degree, and certifications might help you get an interview, but your soft skills are what will help you get the job and sustain it. A good appreciation of these skills and willingness to build up skills in these areas is what this A&P Intern Connect Africa internship programme on soft skill seek to do.
What are soft skills?
Soft skills include some character traits (such as being self-motivated, creative, or reliable) that positively affect how you work and interact with others. They are considered the “people” skills and they are what will help you excel on any job.
Who needs soft skills?
Everybody needs soft skills, especially continuing student and young employees.These skills equip individuals to cope on the job and help to make them efficient and effective, these skills ultimately will make one excel on the work place. Organisation can thrive when their employees have the necessary skills to succeed at what they do.
How do you acquire soft skills?
They are acquired through a combination of skill transfer opportunities including non-formal targeted trainings, internships, coaching, mentorship and on-the-job practice. Employers across every industry are looking for candidates with a strong set of soft skills. Although you can’t sit down in a classroom and learn them, you can still hone and develop these talents through programmes like this. And as with any skill, practice makes perfect. The 10 main soft skills that will be highlighted and imparted in our internship programme are:
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Adaptability
- Critical Thinking and Creativity
- Work Ethics – Integrity and Honesty at Work
- Interpersonal Skills
- Time Management
- Leadership Skills
- Attention to Detail
- Assertiveness and Confidence at Work
List Of Courses
Patience Agyare-Kwabi (aka. Mrs. Agyare-Ashie)
(Senior Partner)She is an international expert on Social Development, Capacity Building, Life Skills Coaching, Gender and Social Inclusion. Patience has experience in Project Conceptualization, Design and Management, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) with over twenty-five (25) years’ experience in development consulting. She has academic qualifications in Gender and Development, Education, Social Science and Administration.
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Anita Djandoh
(Senior Partner)Anita is a cofounder of A&P and an international consultant, a social entrepreneur and a green advocate. She has about twenty (20) years of progressive experience in the fields of project management, gender mainstreaming, social and environmental development, monitoring and evaluation in the areas of Agriculture, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Education and Sustainability.
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Emmanuel Kudom-Agyemang
(Partner)Kwaku is an efficiency-driven professional with experience and repeated success in guiding IT projects from start to finish, managing technical support operations, mentorship, software engineering and research as well as consultancy in operating result-driven projects. Kwaku is a Software Engineer working in Ghana and consulting with the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center for Excellence in ICT.
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Francis Kotey Ashie
(Partner)Francis is a Cinematographer, Design and Editing professional. He is a graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), with an experience in Communication Design. Francis has extensive experience, talent and passion for design and visual communication and cinematography.
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Gerald Danquah
(Partner)Gerald has an M.Sc. in Agroforestry from KNUST and is also a development practitioner and educationist. He has over ten years extensive training and mentorship experience. He previously supported a renowned Italian NGO as part of the coordination team. A professional planner, developer and coordinator of human and material resources in the implementation and evaluation of development programming.
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