711-0527/05 – Soft Skills I (SS)
Gurantor department | Department of Social Sciences | Credits | 2 |
Subject guarantor | Mgr. Martina Schneiderová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Mgr. Martina Schneiderová, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 3 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | English |
Year of introduction | 2017/2018 | Year of cancellation | |
Intended for the faculties | FAST, FS | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
- Definition of the soft skills and their professional development opportunities
- Basic time-management
- Development of the communication skills including training of selected communication techniques (presentation, self-presentation, negotiation with the client)
- Identifying own strengths and weaknesses based on diagnosis
- Preparation for a tender
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
The subject is intended for students of technical or economic orientation or humanities. Students will be introduced to the soft skills with a focus on self-management and diagnostics (charting their own strengths and weaknesses), effective communication and career planning.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
solving model situations and tasks
E-learning
Other requirements
1. create a CV (europass)
2. create a cover letter
3. self-presentation
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Soft skills - meaning, description, development opportunities.
2. Self-management - developing the skills, diagnosis.
3. Career planning - diagnosis (type of career, team roles, Self-knowledge- Holland, Belbin etc.).
4. CV, covering letter - the structure and content.
5. Preparing for the tender - organization selection, assesment center, model situations.
6. Communication skills - communication scheme, the phase of communication, types of communication.
7. Nonverbal communication - function analysis of the signals, modification of the space for communication.
8. Verbal communication - conversation, principles of effective communication.
9. Communication technology - presentation, management consulting, moderation, self-presentation.
10. Assertive skills.
11. Negotiations with the client - the tactical aspects of the negotiations with the client, managing manipulative approaches.
12. Time Management - developing the skills to plan, follow a plan to meet deadlines.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction