Developing Soft Skills to Strengthen Leadership Training for University Students

The university education phase serves as a platform for forming and strengthening social relationships that, in many cases, become the foundation for building professional careers in increasingly complex work environments (Emam et al., 2024). In this brief context, universities face challenges in educating and preparing graduates with a well-rounded profile, that is, individuals who possess the skills to meet both workplace and organizational demands by combining mastery of their field of study with responsible and ethical leadership. Building on this idea, and according to Bisschoff and Massyn (2025), academic performance remains one of the criteria guiding many academic decisions but is insufficient on its own to develop the well-rounded profile required of today's professionals. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) which allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.