Ca' Foscari Competency Centre

Emotional Competencies and Personal Development

PerFORMARE EmotivaMENTE (that encompasses “Competency lab” and the course “Emotional competencies and individual development”) has been included in the short list of the best didactic projects in the session “Nurturing Employability” at the international competition “Reimagine Education” organized by  Wharton – University of Pennsylvania, SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management, QS Stars.

Contacts

Prof. Sara Bonesso ( bonesso@unive.it)

“The rules for work are changing. We’re being judged by a new yardstick: not just by how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other. This yardstick is increasingly applied in choosing who will be hired and who will not, who will be let go and who retained, who passed over and who promoted. (...)These rules have little to do with what we were told was important in school; academic abilities are largely irrelevant to this standard. The new measure takes for granted having enough intellectual ability and technical know-how to do our jobs; it focuses instead on personal qualities, such as initiative and empathy, adaptability and persuasiveness (...)”.

Daniel Goleman, Working with Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books, 1998.

What Emotional Competencies and Personal Development is

Emotional Competencies and Personal Development is a 6 ECTS credits course for all students enrolled in a Master’s Degree Programme that can be chosen as elective (or for supernumerary credits). During the academic year, the course is delivered in English in the third period and in Italian in the fourth period.

The objective of the course is to promote the development of behavioural competencies, that are individual characteristics that lead to or cause effective or superior performance. Behavioral competencies are not related to a specific job, but they can be activated in any professional position which requires them.

They can be goal and action management abilities, relational abilities or cognitive abilities. Some examples of behavioral competencies are: achievement orientation, initiative, adaptability, empathy, leadership, conflict management, influence, teamwork, self-awareness, self-control, positive outlook, pattern recognition, systems thinking, oral communication, etc.

The course aims to lead the participants in an exciting process addressed to the deep understanding of their strengths and areas of improvement, to the definition of their career goals and identification of the ways to achieve them, defining an individual development plan, which is useful to enter in the labor market.

This course has been developed by the Ca’ Foscari Competency Centre, the Centre whose aim is to improve people’s employability and performance through the development of their behavioral competencies, in collaboration with the Department of Management.

Contents and didactic methods

  • The social and emotional competencies and their impact on working performance
  • Positive emotional attractors and Negative emotional attractors
  • The self-directed learning process
  • Defining our ideal working life
  • Assessing our competencies
  • Understanding the feedback addressed to us: our strenghts and weaknesses
  • Coaching sessions and Learning teams
  • Defining a personal development plan and our learning style
  • How to develop competencies
  • Competency-based human resources management: selection, training and performance appraisal
  • Detecting competencies: the behavioral event interview

The course is characterized by a highly interactive teaching and the use of an online platform that provides advanced tools for individual assessment, feedback report and study materials.

Syllabus  

How to participate

The course has a limited number of participants (maximum 60 students).
The call for participation in the 2023/24 edition will be published on this page in October 2023.
Participation in the Competency Lab is incompatible with the admission to the course "Emotional Competencies and Personal Development".

Documenti allegati

file pdfCall for admission a.y. 2024/2025370 K

To participate see the call and fill in the application form within Monday 9 December 2024 (12 pm). 

Earn Open Badge with CFCC

An Open Badge is a digital certification that validate and showcase the knowledge, skills and competencies acquired. Open Badges are recognised worldwide, can be included in electronic curricula and shared on social networks.

Attend the course Emotional Competencies and Personal Development and pass the exam and you will earn the Open Badge “Soft Skills: Personal Development

Once an Open Badge has been awarded, you must retrieve it. For more information on how to obtain, use, and make the most of your digital certificates, visit the Open Badges and digital certificates page.

Open Badges and digital certificates 

Soft Skills: Personal Development. Ca' Foscari Competency Centre

Last update: 28/10/2024