Soft Skills Training Camp 2: Experience to work, live together and assert yourself

It can be said that the Soft Skills Training Camp is one of the learning contents that Dai Nam University students especially look forward to, enjoy and desire to experience. The learning model combining military camp and summer camp with interesting and useful experiential activities not only helps young people break through and remove all their barriers to "come out" but is also a playground for students of different faculties in the school to exchange, learn and connect. The Soft Skills Training Camp is also a place to preserve the beautiful and pure memories of student life.

If Soft Skills Camp 1 helps students become aware of the learning environment and culture at Dai Nam University; equips students with university study skills, self-awareness, career goal determination, personal planning, potential exploitation, self-motivation, time management and personal financial management, Soft Skills Camp 2 focuses on developing communication skills, presentation skills and teamwork skills towards the higher goal of learning/experience to work, to live together and to assert oneself.

Dai Nam University is one of the first universities in the North to introduce Soft Skills as a major subject.

Right from the first days of the school's establishment, Dr. Le Dac Son - Chairman of the Board of Directors has specifically directed: In addition to teaching professional knowledge and working skills to create the future, it is necessary to teach students soft skills and ethics from the simplest things in daily life...

Soft skills are one of the strengths in the training program of Dai Nam University.

Accordingly, with experience in recruitment and human resource management as a former General Director of a large joint stock bank, the head of Dai Nam University has applied the “hard-won” lessons in human resource recruitment of enterprises in general and banks in particular to the training program. Dai Nam University has become one of the first universities in the North to introduce soft skills as a core subject and continuously develop and expand training content as it is today.

With the Soft Skills training program of Dai Nam University, students experience mental, intellectual, emotional and psychosocial skills that help each individual survive and adapt well to the community, life and surrounding environment.

This is also a subject that Dai Nam students especially love.

Sharing about the Soft Skills training program of Dai Nam University, Mr. Pham Van Minh - Head of Soft Skills Department said: If the Soft Skills 1 program helps students to be aware of the learning environment and culture at Dai Nam University; equips students with university study skills, self-awareness, career goal determination, personal planning, potential exploitation, self-motivation, time management and personal financial management, the Soft Skills 2 program focuses on developing communication skills, presentation skills and teamwork skills towards the higher goal of learning, experiencing to work, to live together and to assert oneself.

K12 students enthusiastically participate in Soft Skills 2 training program.

Specifically: The content of teaching communication skills helps learners understand the importance of communication; know how to communicate, behave and the factors for successful communication and behavior; how to use verbal and non-verbal communication to achieve the best results...

Presentation skills training content helps learners understand the importance of presentation; know how to prepare for a presentation; draft optimal presentations and slides; equip learners with presentation presentation methods and control presentations to achieve the best results.

The content of teaching teamwork skills helps learners understand the importance of teamwork, be able to organize work, work effectively in groups; know how to work with the whole group to complete common goals.

Following the interesting theoretical lessons in class, K12 students of Dai Nam University continued to enter the Soft Skills Training Program 2 with the theme "Dai Nam Intelligence". Currently, DNU's Soft Skills Training Program 2 has completed 2/3 of the journey and will officially close on July 25, 2020.

K12 students experience the activity "Bringing water to the village".

The 2-morning Soft Skills Camp aims to practice skills through activities in the Amazing Race format. Activities such as: Catch the word, performers, bringing water to the village, jumping in a sack, overcoming obstacles and the hundred-jointed bamboo tree help students practice general knowledge, apply skills in work, skills of inferring and presenting in detail and confidently; skills of using body language in communication, skills of working in a harmonious group, knowing how to listen, sharing with teammates, perseverance, solidarity...

The afternoon focuses on intelligence and knowledge through the Golden Bell contest. Students will be challenged with comprehensive knowledge about DNU, life, majors, economics, politics, society, culture, sports, etc.

The Sack Jumping Activity is one of the interesting challenges and experiences of Soft Skills Camp 2.

The evening is an experience of comprehensive exercises on skills in the form of drama with topics such as: Views on teamwork skills of Vietnamese people today; views on smartphone use of young people today; comments on the apathy of Vietnamese society today; views on communication of young people today on social networks; views on the current situation of cohabitation of students today; why should we go to university; the responsibility of the young generation on environmental issues; school violence; exam cheating; youth and the 4.0 revolution; the issue of part-time jobs of students; idols - lifestyle orientation; responsibility of children to their parents...

K12 students conquer knowledge with the exciting Golden Bell competition.

With diverse, vibrant, attractive and meaningful experiential activities, students confidently broke down their own barriers, equipped themselves with teamwork skills, solidarity, perseverance, endurance... and experienced emotions to the fullest.

Lam Cuc Phuong – a K12 student of the Faculty of Public Relations and Communication shared: “The experiential activities of Soft Skills Camp 2 are really interesting and useful. They are not simply game activities but also real-life situations that help us apply theory to practice effectively. This is also an experiential activity that helps students from different faculties exchange, learn and connect with each other…”

Nguyen Thu Quynh – a student of K12, Faculty of Business Administration, confided: “Knowledge – foreign languages – information technology and soft skills are necessary and sufficient factors for graduates to find jobs, meet the recruitment needs of businesses and be able to advance. Thank you to the School for providing us students with a comprehensive, modern and updated training program…”

Some pictures of the Soft Skills 2 training program for K12 students:

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