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Course: 2021/2022

Personal and Profesional Development

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Master In Business Administration - MBA (Plan: 466 - Estudio: 301)

EPE

Coordinating teacher: MELERO MARTIN, EDUARDO

Department assigned to the subject: Business Administration Department

Type: Compulsory

ECTS Credits: 2.0 ECTS

Course: 1º

Semester: 2º

Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)

No requirement

Objectives

By the end of the course students will be able to: -Design their own career plan basing on a well-balanced decision making. -Handle Human Resources methods and apply them to their professional life. -Understand resilience as a core survival skill of the future working environment and identify opportunities to develop it. -Assess their own strengths and weaknesses and identify strategic competencies to build their personal branding.

Skills and learning outcomes

Link to document

Description of contents: programme

CLASS 1. Competency- based Management: A professional approach for career development. Concept of Competency Use of competencies in Recruitment, Performance Appraisal and Career Plan. The dictionary of competencies. Cases/Exercises: Our dictionary of Competencies My competencies profile. CLASS 2: Career Plan 5 steps to move forward. Implementing a Strategic Career Plan. Guidelines for Writing a Competency Based Job Description Cases/Exercises: Having a first contact with my career plan (Merlin Method) My future Job: Complete description Class 3: Personal Change Overview of a personal change process. The principles of self-coaching. My inner laws: values, beliefs and habits. Cases/Exercises: Set of Values Beliefs about change / career Self-sabotage. Personality characteristics, needs and values through written text. "Watson" (Artificial Intelligence) An effort to synthesize: Professional Title and Abstract. Class 4: Resilience Concept of Resilience. Competencies involved in resilient attitudes. Cases/Exercises: Performance Appraisal. Collective intelligence to find development activities. Design of a Personal Development Plan of action. Class 5: Job Hunting Tools (I). Personal Branding. Cases/Exercises: Resume and cover letter LinkedIn: How to make the most of this professional Network Buffer: How to Look for a easier way to manage your social media marketing Feedly: How to monitor news about your, industry, business topics... Class 6: Job Hunting Tools (II). Assessment Center Cases/Exercises: Job Interview. Competency Based Interview. Group dynamics to assess competencies. Class 7: Action Plan Cases/Exercises: Presentation of my Development Plan

Learning activities and methodology

Exercises: - Our dictionary of Competencies, My competencies profile. - Merlin Method, Job Description. - Set of Values, Beliefs about change, Self-Sabotage, An effort to synthesize. - Performance Appraisal, Development Activities, Personal Development Plan. - Cv and LinkedIn profile review. - Competency based interview, Assessment Center. - Presentation of my Development Plan

Assessment System

Final Work ¿ Career Plan (80 %)
 
Report of your findings along the program, following the next framework:
 
1) The place where you are:
 
¿ CV including Job Title and abstract.
¿ Competencies profile (all your findings from the performance appraisal and other assessments carried out in class).
¿ Set of values (4-6 including your own definition).
¿ Other considerations you are going to take into account related to your reality testing (beliefs, inner obstacles, paradigm Victim/Creator ¿).
 
2) The place where you want to be:
 
¿ Long Term Goal: Vision statement.
¿ Medium Term Goal: Smart Goals to achieve your vision statement.
¿ Short Term Goal:  Complete job description.
 
3) What it will take you to get there:
 
¿ Personal Development Plan (Action Plan presented in class).
¿ Collateral aspects, conclusions from Happenstance theory, ¿
¿ Other considerations you are going to take into account.
 
Attitude (20 %)
 
¿        Participation in class discussions.
¿        Commitment with learning exercises.
¿        Presentation in class.

% end-of-term-examination 0
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 100

Basic Bibliography

John Whitmore. Coaching for Performance: The Principles and Practices of Coaching and Leadership . Nicholas Brealey Publishing. 2009
Leonard, S., Lewis, R., Freeman, A. & Passmore. The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Leadership. : Wiley-Blackwell.
R. A. Neault. ¿Thriving in the new millennium: Career management in the changing world of work¿. Canadian Journal of Career Development, Vol. 1, No. 1..

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.