About Rounding Up the Edges - ROUTE Soft Skills

ROUTE International is a not-for-profit Soft Skills company. We strive to make a lasting impact in Africa by equipping individuals, teams, companies, institutions, and agencies with the necessary Soft Skills to thrive in their missions, careers, businesses, endeavors, and personal lives. We are a one-stop provider of training, coaching, mentoring and facilitation in essential Soft Skills for Employability, Business, and Life. ROUTE's skilling program will help you land a job, improve your productivity, earn a promotion, start and grow your business, and acquire the soft skills you can use in your everyday life.
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Our Core Values

Committed to experiential and learner-centred methods of Soft Skills building
Action-focused and need-responsive in solving problems to guarantee success
Put service before self and work until the job is done
Encourage the early acquisition of Soft Skills to yield the greatest impact
Are committed to respectful and nondiscriminatory practices
Prioritize the underprivileged
Maintain confidentiality, professionalism, excellence, and integrity
Learn from our shortcomings and apologize when expectations are not met

Our Objectives

To equip individuals, teams, companies, institutions, and agencies with the necessary Soft Skills to thrive in their missions, careers, businesses, endeavors, and personal lives.
To facilitate the acquisition of practical Soft Skills for Business and tools for identifying potential business opportunities , starting and growing micro , small and medium size business ventures and addressing issues and challenges associated with success in business.
To provide individuals with the Soft Skills necessary for dealing effectively with the challenges, demands and opportunities of everyday life.
To support and mentor individuals in making and implementing informed and appropriate educational and occupational career choices so as to effectively transition from secondary school to further education, training, work or self-employment in order to achieve job satisfaction and fulﬁlment of their career aspirations.
To provide consultancy and advisory services in Soft Skills for employability, business and life.
To contribute to the evidence base and data for decisions around Soft Skills development programs and projects on the African continent.

Why what we do matters

To remain future-fit every individual, team, company, institution, or agency needs to pay attention to soft skills. According to the World Economic Forum (2022), of the top ten future skills, eight are soft skills https://bit.ly/3JQB6jj
Investing in learning Soft Skillsmakes economic sense. They are the skills that make professional or technical skills – the so-called hard skills – work. Soft Skills enable individuals to find jobs easily, learn faster on the job, become more productive at work and in business, earn more, live a purposed life, and enjoy better health
Soft skills contribute to innovation. Google found that their top performing teams were not their A-teams made up of experts, but their B-teams who, while still smart enough, focus on teamwork, check their egos, and make sure there is no bullying
Employees with insufficient or outdated soft skills are a source of money loss. For example, stress caused from working with a manager with ineffective interpersonal skills costs American companies $360 billion a year. The average manager spends around 25-40% of his or her day dealing with workplace conflict. This means a waste of that percentage of the salaries of all parties involved. Around 85% of employee dismissals are due to a personality conflict
Soft Skills are required to start, manage, and sustain micro, small, and medium-sized businesses, including those in the hospitality sector.
Soft Skills enable individuals to seize life’s opportunities, overcome challenges, build meaningful relationships, and effectively manage their lives for personal growth.

Skills you can use in your everyday life

Every person needs a certain set of skills in order to successfully deal with the difficulties and demands of daily living-These are called Life skills. These abilities span a wide range of areas related to professional, social, and personal development.

Managing Personal Money
Self Knowledge
Skills for Behaviour Change
Skills for Healthy Living
Navigating Gender & Power Relationships
Study Skills
Discipline
Developing Good Habits
Courtship & Marriage
Finding your Purpose
Mental Wellness
Mood Management
Planning for Retirement
Relationship Skills
Resilience Skills
Communication Skills
Coping with Loss
Coping with Job Loss

A one -stop provider of Soft Skills
An extensive and need-responsive training program
A training program is delivered through different approaches (in-person, virtual and e-learning)
A highly specialized and experienced professional training team
World-class training centre
Affordable products and services

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Meeting ROUTE completely changed Naasir’s life. Through our skilling program and mentoring he was able to write an outstanding CV, excel in a job interview and secure a job. “Courtesy of the two trainings I received from ROUTE in, “How to Write a Compelling CV” and “Tactics for Succeeding at a Job Interview”, I applied for a job and passed the interview. I now have a part-time job. I’m indebted to ROUTE for the skills I acquired. I will definitely come for more skills”.

Naasir

Second Year Student , Nkumba University.

Being a medical practitioner, I thought I had all it takes to practice my profession, until I received a training on, “Professionalism”. It changed the conduct of my practice. There are so many things I thought didn’t matter which actually do, and they matter a lot. I now realize that one can practice a profession without practicing professionalism. I’m now skilled for both and feel that the progression of my career is on course. Thanks to ROUTE for the training and to our Faculty for organizing it.

Dr. Caleb

Makerere School of Public Health

I tried this smart piano and learned how to play music in a day. There are many variations of passages of lorem ipsum but the majority.“I was extremely shy at making oral presentations in class and even talking to my lecturers. Plus, my written communication was poor. All this changed after a training in ROUTE on,” Communication Skills”. The training was practical and interactive, the trainer was professional yet, sensitive to our needs. The delivery was also fun. I have learned to speak confidently and my writing skills have greatly improved.

Ruth

First Year Student, Nkumba University

Thanks to the ROUTE International team, I now use Soft Skills more than hard ones. If I have succeeded in where I am today, it is all because I am able to invoke my Soft Skills.

Trainee

Participant from multiple trainings from 2022.

The training modules ROUTE provides in Employability, Business and Life Skills are very unique. They are a wholistic package that equips students with essential soft skills required for the contemporary job market, business world and dynamic demands of life. These skills perfectly complement the technical skills offered by the University. I wish all our students could attend these trainings. I highly recommend them.”

Administrator

Kyambogo University Kampala

The training on, “How to Write a Compelling CV” was extremely insightful. It was an eyeopener. I kept wondering why I wasn’t being invited for interviews despite writing so many CVs. Now I understand why. I’m confident that the next CV I write will get me to the interview room. The timing of the training was spot-on.

Juliet

Final Year Student, Kyambogo University

Soft skills training helped me translate my academic achievements into impactful interview skills. I learned better communication and active listening, which landed me my dream job."

Fred

Recent Graduate,Makerere University

"The training on teamwork and negotiation was invaluable. I now feel confident collaborating with colleagues and advocating for myself during salary discussions."