Soft Skills for Engineers

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Offering Institution:	Technische Hochschule Lübeck
Course Language:	English
Field of Knowledge:	Preparation Courses	Free of Charge
Average Workload:	72 Hours	Free of Charge	Enrol

What awaits you in this course?

As an Engineer or Engineering student, you are of course very skilled when it comes to technical issues. However, when working in a more technical environment, whether you are part of a team or leading a team, work in a large or small company or maybe even as a freelancer – people skills, social skills and communication skills will help you to advance your career, or, if they are lacking, hinder your occupational advancement significantly. (If you do not believe it, just have a look at current job listings and see for yourself how much emphasis is given to soft skills!)

In this course, you will learn the most important soft skills, which are relevant to be successful as an engineer. You will learn how to effectively communicate with others, solve conflicts, hold meetings, present your findings and work successfully as a team.

What can you learn in this course?

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

Identify different communication styles and apply various communication models to real life,
Give constructive feedback, lead conversations in a goal-oriented manner and resolve conflict situations,
Prepare presentations and design them according to the needs of your audience using fundamental methods and techniques,
Describe, choose and use various approaches for the moderation of meetings, and
Recognize the success factors for successful collaboration in a team, identify problems and optimize the cooperation based on appropriate interventions.

Outline

This course provides you with video lectures, supplemented by additional information, self-tests and discussion tasks. In this rhythm, you can deepen your knowledge and use your newly acquired skills to answer the discussion questions jointly with other participants in the forums.

Week 0: Introduction
Week 1: The basics of communication
Week 2: Communication for conflict solving
Week 3: Presentation techniques
Week 4: Meeting facilitation
Week 5: Teamwork

Confirmation of participation

In this course, you can earn Badges and Training certificate.

License

Creative Commons

Soft Skills

Engineers

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