StartUp School - Find your Strengths (5cr)

Learning objectives

The objective of the course is to develop your self-knowledge and self-leadership skills.
Find and analyse your personal values, interests, passions and strengths. By analysing skills and competences you clarify your future professional career. Career can be self-employment, employment within an organisation or creation of a business idea. You learn self-leadership competences, and recognises development areas of his/her personal skills.

Contents

Each group has students with different competences and development areas for which the teacher tailors the course content accordingly. You will learn how to enlarge and utilize your networks. Also, you will get familiar with the coaching process.
Content of the course is:

* Identifying personal strengths
* Understanding personal motivation and values behind motivation
* Improving self-leadership skills and development areas
* Developing self-knowledge
* Learning better interaction methods

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

This course will be implemented as group coaching methods. Teacher will give directions, and acts as a facilitator.

Course includes mandatory self-learning assessments.

Learning materials

Learning materials are provided by the teacher.

Starting level and linkage with other courses

No requirements.

Assessment criteria - grade 1

Student
Finds personal values, interests, passions and strengths
Recognises development areas and creates a development plan

Assessment criteria - grade 3

Student
Can reflect of her/his learning
Can develop independently her/his professional career or business idea
Understands importance of ongoing professional self-development

Assessment criteria - grade 5

Student
Recognises her/his strengths and knows how to develop them independently
Evaluates her/his self-development critically and acts accordingly
Student learns the principles of coaching and helps other students in their own development areas