Course Content
Introduction to Self Development
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Understanding Self Development
The topics: Core competencies addressed in this module
Looking at Self Development
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Topic 1.1: Learning Skills
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Why is it important to have this meta-competence?
ACTIVITY: My personal strategy
ACTIVITY: Active listening
Theoretical Background
Resources and Sources
Topic 1.2: Critical Thinking
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Why is it important to have this meta-competence?
ACTIVITY: The Three Sieves
ACTIVITY: By Word of Mouth
Theoretical Background
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Topic 1.3: Self Management
The importance of self-management as a meta-competence in professional environments is profound, given its impact on individual and organizational success. One of the primary aims of developing self-management skills is to achieve greater personal accountability and reliability among employees. Individuals who excel in self-management are adept at setting realistic goals, prioritizing tasks, and maintaining focus, all of which contribute to enhanced productivity and efficiency. This competence enables employees to take ownership of their work, leading to higher quality outputs and reduced oversight requirements. As a result, organizations can benefit from a more autonomous and effective workforce, which in turn drives innovation and competitive advantage. The learning outcomes associated with self-management include improved time management, enhanced emotional regulation, and better stress resilience. Effective time management allows individuals to allocate their time and resources efficiently, ensuring that high-priority tasks are completed promptly and with minimal errors. Enhanced emotional regulation, another critical outcome, helps individuals maintain composure and make rational decisions under pressure, thereby improving interpersonal relationships and team dynamics. Better stress resilience ensures that employees can cope with the demands of their roles without experiencing burnout, leading to sustained performance and job satisfaction. These outcomes collectively contribute to a healthier and more productive work environment.
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Why is it important to have this meta-competence?
ACTIVITY: Discovering You – Navigating the 16 Personalities for Individual Growth
ACTIVITY: My solo quest map
Theoretical Background
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Topic 1.4: Emotional Intelligence
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Why is it important to have this meta-competence?
ACTIVITY: Emotion cards: What a feeling?
ACTIVITY: Empathy Map
Theoretical Background
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Test your Knowledge
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MODULE1: Self Development
Self-assessment reminder
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Reflect on your growth
Module 1: Self Development

The complexity and interconnectedness of the challenges we are facing, and the unpredictability of derived opportunities and threats implies the need for citizens to become lifelong learners. Learning to Learn is the ability to pursue and persist in learning, and to organise one’s learning, including effective management of time and information, both individually and in groups. Learning to Learn implies taking responsibility for one’s development.

 

This competence involves several components within the personal and social domains. 

 

Related to personal development, Learning to Learn involves: inherited assets, like aptitudes; a cognitive dimension, e.g. problem-solving skills, and the use of different learning methods; a metacognitive dimension, e.g. self-awareness and self-assessment of one’s knowledge, affective and motivational dimension, e.g. the motivation to learn, and the regulation of the emotions triggered by the learning activity; and learning dispositions, e.g. critical curiosity, a growth mind-set, creativity, and resilience.

 

Knowledge

 

Learning to learn competence involves knowing one’s preferred learning strategies, knowing one’s competence development needs and various ways to develop competences and search for the education, training and career opportunities and guidance or support available.

 

Skills

 

Skills include the ability to identify one’s capacities, focus, deal with complexity, critically reflect and make decisions. This includes the ability to learn and work both collaboratively and autonomously and to organise and persevere with one’s learning, evaluate and share it, seek support when appropriate and effectively manage one’s career and social interactions.

 

Attitudes

 

Competence is based on a positive attitude toward learning throughout one’s life. Individuals should be able to identify and set goals, motivate themselves, and develop resilience and confidence to pursue and succeed at learning throughout their lives. A problem-solving attitude supports both the learning process and the individual’s ability to handle obstacles and change. It includes the desire to apply prior learning and life experiences and the curiosity to look for opportunities to learn and develop in a variety of life contexts.

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