Category: Soft skills development

Supervising Students by Jeanine de Bruin from Hakuna Matata

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Post date 22/11/2019

Supervising and one-to-one support is an important part of professional learning. As a supervisor, how do we assure good guidance, structure and provide guidelines for communication during student projects? In this workshop Jeanine provided different styles to effectively guide students. How to deal with intercultural differences in communication, how to deal with project expectations and how to give constructive feedback were just some of the topics covered in this workshop!

https://www.hakunamatata.nl/

“It is very specific for your work and responsibilities as a PhD student, and that helped a lot. I always find practicing with colleagues a bit uncomfortable, but the group was great and the feedback helped a lot.”
Anonymous participant

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Soft skills development

Core quadrants & qualities by Jeanine de Bruin from Hakuna Matata

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Post date 19/03/2019

Discussing strengths and qualities with your supervisor and colleagues is one of the best ways to build successful organisations. Acknowledging you own personal skills is the first step to be able put these into practice. Moreover it raises your self-esteem and enhances team spirit. In this workshop we identified our personal strengths in terms of (transferable) skills and qualities. We talked about strategies on how to communicate effectively about our strengths in order to put these into practice. We also identified and addressed our weaknesses in order to make better and effective decisions during our career.

https://www.hakunamatata.nl/

“I actually learned a lot about myself – it is good to sometimes take the time to reflect on yourself”
Anonymous participant

“The atmosphere was really nice. It was a very interactive workshop”
Anonymous participant

“We played several fun games to learn about our personal qualities. The drinks afterwards were fun too!”
Anonymous participant

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Soft skills development

Communication Skills by The School of Life

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Post date 13/12/2018

The stronger a team’s communication skills are, the better the outcome: studies have found that highly effective communicators are 32% more likely to meet the goals of a major project. This makes it crucial that we learn how to convey tricky but important messages in good time, with clarity, respect and patience. In this 2-hour session, we discussed

Bariers for good coomunication in you work environment
How to ‘tune in’ to (non)verbal signals we are giving to others, and how these may perceived
Ways to handle difficult conversations and give feedback

http://www.theschooloflife.com

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