strategic competencies

Aim of this project was to find a common agreement regarding the content of the methodology.
The suggested proposal was written by some partners of the group and focus on assessment centre as a tool for assessing strategical individual competencies. Also contained will be self assessment and, outgoing from the results, a plan for personal development will be suggested. All will be available on a CD, also for limited time on the project website.
My resume:
As different as our backgrounds and level of experiences as different are the approaches to test and develop strategical individual competencies. The result ais a common agreement, not really revolutionary, but not bad.
I know, there are no easy recipes and personal development is a difficult and never ending long way.
It is sometimes a walk on the edge to test soft skills and give pre-formatted suggestions for personal development.
Companies use such tests for a pre-selection out of a large number of applicants.
But more common are online test environments which simulates real working processes, or project related internships. Both tools, used for a longer period of time gives assessors and attendees a better possibility to recognize resp. show their competencies.
However, for some persons the test can be an impulse to thought about personal weaknessess and strenghts. In the wild forest of personal coaching methods are lots which promises fast results on an easy, mechanical way, but also some whith a real focus on personal development.
Each human being has it's own strategy to cope with it'S weaknessess and opportunities, by ignoring them, do not realizing them or giving responsibilities for own decisions and behaviour away. Just few wants to go the deeper inside to reveal reasons for and change behaviour.
We do not really always want to know what happens inside
C'est la vie!

Yesterday, early in the morning I started a long journey to Heraklion. I tooks me 18 hours to get there  from Barcelona, with three stops in between. Here we will have our fourth project meeting to develop the methodlogy to test and how to assess them.

It will be a strong working meeting, but this morning I had a bit time to go around in Heraklion.

The third meeting  of the SIC Project is over. We discussed how to interprete the results we have got in our survey and hanged on a long time in talking about the differences between different countries. There is a model from Hofstede to view on the differences, called monochronic and polychronic.

Of course, there is not black and white, it always depends on the concrete situation, but there is tendency. Germans and the Irish are more rational thinkers and decision makers. Portugueses, Greeks and Spanish's are more emotional and take decisions out of the feeling.

I picked out some competencies were the results shows significant differences to the average. Have a look at my attached presentation I gave today.

The whole report will be published soon on the project website.