The certificate programme in Personal Skills is based on a generalist, transdisciplinary approach to personal and social abilities. It deals with selected sets of skills that are important in meeting the challenges of your day-to-day work.
In the three course components, Knowledge Management, Leadership and Cross-cultural Communication, you will examine your own knowledge and skills and stores of knowledge on the organizational level; analyze your management of yourself and others; and explore appropriate strategies in working with different cultures, roles and functional disciplines. Particular attention is given to ensuring the sustainability of the skills you acquire in the course, and transferring them to actual practice.
This course familiarizes you with the foundations of knowledge management at the personal and organizational levels. You will examine your individual handling of knowledge, as well as the complex demands placed on enterprises and organizations in working with continuously growing stores of knowledge.
You will become familiar with different models, methods and tools of knowledge management, and lay the foundations for their application to your professional context.
This course focuses on the various dimensions and responsibilities of leadership in organizations. You will acquire the necessary tools for successful leadership action, and practice the application of these instruments and methods in a variety of simulations. By constructively criticizing leadership behaviour, you will develop and strengthen your own personal management style.
The final course focuses on successful, reflective, skilful engagement in dealing with difference. You will become familiar with various models of diversity management and analyze relevant dimensions of difference.
In view of the increasing internationalization of professional activity, and of increasing demands for interprofessional teamwork, the skills you acquire are essential for a successful career.
The DUW guidance counselling team is happy to help and advise you. The DUW guidance counselling team is available by phone at 0800-9 333 111,* or by e-mail at studienberatung@duw-berlin.de.
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