Soft Skills Enrichment for Tanoto Scholarship Recipients

As a self-made billionaire who grew without complete formal education, SukantoTanoto believes in good education to reach success. However, he also believes about character education and enrichment as parts of formal education. Through his foundation, Tanoto Foundation, he not only gives scholarships to students in local areas around his company facilities, but also provides soft skill enrichment as one of important parts of his education program.

Soft skill is something that should not be overlooked in a good education, and this is why his foundation provides continuous soft skill enrichment for scholarship recipients before and during study program.

Soft Skills and Success in Education

According to appointed head of Tanoto Foundation, Sihol Aritonang, Tanoto Foundation places soft skill at the same level of spot as the scholarship program itself. All scholarship recipients will not only receive cash for their education until completed, but they will also receive soft skill enrichment program. The scholarship recipients will get enrichment program and training before they start their period of education, and they also get assistance during study time such as counseling if the grade slides down for certain reasons.

Soft skill enrichment is important because it shapes people’s characters. Successful people with only academic and professional competence are just half complete; they must show leadership skill, professionalism and sense of responsibility to even boost their success in any fields they choose. Since Sukanto Tanoto is a self made billionaire that really struggled from the bottom to achieve his success, he wants to emphasize the importance of having such positive characters.

Enrichment Programs by Tanoto Foundation for Soft Skills

Soft skills consist of qualities like leadership skill, sense of responsibility, sense of achievement, integrity and other important qualities. Therefore, soft skill enrichment programs by Sukanto Tanoto’s foundation aims to emphasize all these qualities before and during the study time. The foundation provides counseling during the study time, leadership camp program and Tanoto Scholar Gathering, which is an opportunity for all scholarship recipients to gather, interact and build networking since early time.

Tanoto Foundation also provides opportunities for scholarship recipients to get into internship program, and even better opportunity to enter Sukanto Tanoto company group as potential candidate to build career. With good soft skill enrichment and assistance program such as mentioned above, Sukanto Tanoto wants to create better future generations that not only have professional skills, but also good qualities necessary to shape the best professionals.