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About Rounding Up the Edges

Welcome to
Rounding Up the Edges (ROUTE) International

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
  • Earn a certificate for every module

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WHY Rounding Up the Edges?

This is What We Stand For!

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

  1. To equip individuals, teams, companies, institutions, and agencies with the necessary Soft Skills to thrive in their missions, careers, businesses, endeavors, and personal lives.

  2. 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.

  3. To provide individuals with the Soft Skills necessary for dealing effectively with the challenges, demands and opportunities of everyday life.

  4. 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.

  5. To provide consultancy and advisory services in Soft Skills for employability, business and life.

  6. 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.

Our VISION

To be the leading one-stop not-for-profit company empowering individuals, teams, companies, institutions, and agencies in Africa with the necessary Soft Skills to thrive in their missions, careers, businesses, endeavors, and personal lives.

Our MISSION

To provide high quality, innovative and transformational training, guidance, support, mentoring and facilitation in Soft Skills for Employability, practical Business Skills and basic Life Skills to enable individuals, teams, companies, institutions, and agencies thrive in their missions, careers, businesses, endeavors, and personal lives.

ROUTE - rounding Up the edges

We stand out of the Crowd for a reason

  • 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

Why Do People Us?

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
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.
Abdunaasir
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 of 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 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, Entebbe
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, Kampala

WHY Rounding Up the Edges?

Our Value Proposition!

INDIVIDUALS
Individuals with higher levels of soft skills get jobs easier, learn better on the job, earn more and are in better health.

BUSINESS
75% of long-term job and business success depends on soft skills.

Of the top future skills, 8 are soft skills (World Economic Forum)

The amazing Team

The ROUTE Team

Dr. Jane Kengeya

Dr Jane Kengeya-Kayondo

Founder & CEO
Flavia Katungye

Flavia Katungye

Company Secretary
Regina N. Musaazi

Regina N. Musaazi

Trainer / Counselor
Mr. David Luswata

Mr. David Martin Luswata

Trainer / Director
Stella Sibo

Stella Sibo

IT Consultant / Director
Dennis Bitature

Dr. Dennis Bitature

COO / Trainer

Our Training Center

ROUTE - Rounding Up the  Edges!