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Competence books for the vacations: Creativity Code. Marcus du Sautoy

Another book, perhaps for another week of researcher’s vacation, is “The Code of Creativity. Art and Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” by Marcus du Sautoy. Although the term “artificial intelligence” became really popular with the GPT Chat in 2022, the book was published in 2019 and you can already read from it how close the invention was. The author is a mathematician and treats both creativity and its most obvious result – art – from this perspective. Especially since his wife, he declares, is an artist, which has a big impact on the layout of the content, examples

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Competence books for the vacations: Fire up your thinking! Ozan Varol

Vacations in schools have already started, in universities it is that moment when employees go on their first vacations, so we are starting a series of posts about books describing competencies in a light and enjoyable way. The first such item is “Fire up your thinking. How to achieve personal and professional success. 9 simple habits and strategies” by Ozan Varol. It should be noted right away that the book is quite thick and heavy – for a suitcase or a backpack… it’s a bit unsuitable, unless you’re traveling by car. But for that it reads lightly and with great

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conferences

Can your research project manager be a robot? We talked about it at the ESOF conference as part of Katowice City of Science 2024

At the ESOF conference, June 13, 2024, Olaf Flak, Ph.D., gave a presentation on replacing human managers with robots based on artificial intelligence. He has always been interested in robotics, and for the past 15 years has been involved in the search for a way to construct a robot manager. He is the creator of online manager tools on the TransistorsHead.com platform, aimed at monitoring manager’s performance and determining their behavior patterns, and then automating them and replacing the human manager with a robot manager. To do this, he developed a methodology for studying the organizational reality in which the

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What are the benefits for a research project manager when he or she is a mentor? Part 2

Two weeks ago we wrote about the benefits for a research project manager when he or she serves as a mentor. We outlined the “hard” areas of research project management. Today, we present the results of our conversations with researchers about why it is beneficial to be a mentor from the perspective of “soft” areas of management and personal development. Benefits in terms of personal development: Benefits in terms of increased academic satisfaction: If you want to develop your competence to be a mentor, contact us: contact us: icrk@us.edu.pl

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about competences

What are the benefits for a research project manager when he or she is a mentor? Part 1

We spoke to a number of research project managers about how they view their role of being a mentor to their staff or doctoral students. Some, focused on their work, saw it as an additional task in their busy schedules of conferences, speeches and publications. However, there are research project managers who recognize the benefits of serving as a mentor to their colleagues. What are these benefits? Below is a list of benefits for the project manager in the so-called “hard” area of research project management. In subsequent posts, we will show what personal and relational benefits can be had

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What are the necessary competencies for doctoral students?

In our work as consultants in the field of competence management, we often encounter questions about what competencies doctoral students should have in order for these competencies to increase their chances of completing their doctoral thesis and, subsequently, advancing their careers in science. Based on our consulting experience and academic work, we have created a list of competencies that should be possessed and developed during doctoral studies. We grouped them into 3 areas and described them with “how to” questions to give guidance to doctoral students in which areas they should develop. Area 1 – Planning one’s own scientific development

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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 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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