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How to explore your competencies with our tools? Explore competencies with behavioral descriptions. Part 2

In the previous post, we described how to explore your competencies using behavioral descriptions. If you are a scientist, work in a scientific project or are employed as a research and teaching or research employee at a university, you can do this very quickly and it will only take you 20 minutes. If you haven’t already done so, click CHECK YOUR COMPETENCIES on the screen at the top right. If you’ve already completed our behavioral tests and have your diagnosis, you’ve received two codes. The first one allows you to take a second look at your diagnosis based on a

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How to explore your competencies with our tools? Explore competencies with behavioral descriptions. Part 1

In the previous post, we reminded you that you can examine your competencies with competency tests, which we called examining competencies with questions. If you are a scientist, work in a scientific project or are employed as a research and teaching or research employee at a university, you can do this very quickly and it will only take you 20 minutes. There is a second way of testing competencies – using behavioral descriptions. Sometimes this way is called behavioral testing. In this form, you will find statements about many professional and social situations, arranged on a scale from no competence

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How to explore your competencies with our tools? Examine your competencies with questions

If you are a scientist, work in a scientific project or are employed as a research and teaching or research employee at a university, you can examine your competencies in two ways. The first is through competency testing. We called this way competency testing with questions. Such competency tests consist of questions about specific situations in your scientific work in which you have to make decisions or take actions. We arranged the questions among experts from the staff of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Staff Development and external experts. We tested them on a selected group of employees and verified them

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What might be the competencies of the future that we should learn as soon as possible?

Recently, there have been many reports on the competencies of the future. Most of them are inspired by artificial intelligence and the increasingly intelligent machines around us. However, if you don’t take momentary trends into account, you can list 10 areas in which we should improve. The areas come from the Future Work Skills 2020 study by the Institute for the Future. They are: See the entire report here:https://www.iftf.org/projects/future-work-skills-2020/

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What competency questions does the McKinsey 7S Framework include?

The McKinsey 7S Framework methodology is a widely used method for analyzing teamwork at the level of an entire organization or department. As organizations flatten out and increase decision-making closer to the rank-and-file employees, it can also be a valuable tool for team leaders to consider how they influence strategy execution on a daily basis. It can also be a helpful tool for keeping competing priorities in perspective to align with the organization’s strategic goals. The McKinsey 7S is a set of seven elements that must be aligned for an organization or team to succeed. Below are the main questions

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What competencies will really be needed in 2024?

The advent of GPT technology and open access to this technology in the form of GPT Chat has led to a heated discussion about what competencies will be needed in the future. Today we present an interesting TEDx talk on how a radical breakthrough like artificial intelligence will change our perception of competencies and the demand for particular competencies. The skills of the future will stimulate a growth mindset, allow us to overcome learned helplessness and help us close the skills gap, developing all of our human potential. TEDx speaker Arndt Pechstein presents a holistic and comprehensive tool for identifying,

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What are competencies and why are they important in university management? Part 2

In this post, we show more definitions of competencies that helped us build a competency model and conduct research in Polish research universities. Let’s look at definitions of competence that emphasize the behavioral dimension and the dynamics that consolidate its components, which are so important in the context of the described project of researching the competence of university employees. Woodruffe (1997, p. 26) emphasized the behavioral dimension affecting work outcomes: “competence refers to a series of behaviors that must be selected to competently perform the tasks and mission of the job.” Similarly, according to Levy-Leboyer (1997), competence implies, in an

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What are competencies and why are they important in university management? Part 1

Our research and implementation interests focus on employee competencies and how to use them to manage a university. Management by competencies is a popular method for managing teams and entire companies in business, but it is still little known in academia. As part of our Interdisciplinary Centre for Staff Development, we decided to change this and promote competence management as an effective method of university management. What are competencies? Definitions of competencies are constantly evolving, so we briefly present the views on competencies that have emerged in recent years. Competencies are discussed by management practitioners, but also by scholars working

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Why did we create the Interdisciplinary Centre for Staff Development?

In 2020, we created the Interdisciplinary Centre for Staff Development at the University of Silesia in Katowice and launched a research and implementation project, funded by the Ministry of Education and Science, called “ICRK – think tank for the development of key competencies of future personnel for Polish science.” The aim of the project was to develop a concept for the development of key competencies of research staff and administrative support staff of the science and higher education sector in Poland, which can contribute to strengthening the position of domestic universities on the international arena. On the one hand, the

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Test your competences

If you are a researcher, you can examine your competencies in two ways: If you want to examin your competences, click here. In both cases, you will receive an assessment of your competencies in a chart like the one below, and you will be shown developmental tips on what you should do to develop your competencies in your chosen areas. Both ways of testing your competencies are completely anonymous.

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