TRAINING FOR LEADERSHIP

Leadership programme for talented youth

Convinced of the importance that the development of talent will have in the societies of tomorrow, on 15 December 2006 the Rafael del Pino Foundation and CTY Spain signed an agreement aimed at contributing to the development of talent and attitudes of leadership among highly capable children and teenagers aged between 10 and 18. The agreement was renewed on 1 June 2008. The programme was attended by 24 young people.

Using a business school methodology, the second Leadership Programme for Talented Youth, entitled “Talent and Leadership Campus 2008” took place from 22 June to 16 August 2008 at the European University of Madrid.

The sessions covered a very broad range of topics, such as emotional intelligence and social skills, oral communication techniques, cooperation and negotiation, assertivity and empathy, team work, setting up a business, leadership and career guidance.

The essentially practical approach of the activities and the use of case studies helped to train the participants to take decisions on situations that were fictitious but based on real-life.

As a complement to the sessions, the students were divided into teams and defended their projects for setting up innovative businesses during the closing ceremony of the course that took place at the Rafael del Pino Foundation on 11 July 2008. The panel of judges was made up of senior staff from the Rafael del Pino Foundation and CTY Spain - as organisers - and Mercedes-Benz Spain, Acens Technologies and Deloitte - as partners - namely: Vicente J. Montes Gan, Javier Tourón Figueroa, Julián Sanabria Vicente, José Cerdán and Luis López Sánchez.

The winning project was Photobank, a company dealing in photos and images of non-professional photographers for their distribution to a variety of communication channels via a website.

Attendance certificates were presented to the 24 students taking part at the closing ceremony.