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Building and Managing Superior Skills
  • Level Professional
  • المدة 18 ساعات hours
  • الطبع بواسطة The State University of New York
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Designed with the modern professional in mind, our skills management course is your transformative journey towards career success. This course offers key insights into strategies for skills-based hiring, enabling you to identify and analyze job-specific skills in your chosen field. You'll establish a systematic process for auditing and advancing your skills, boosting your professional agility. Throughout this course, you'll become familiar with Generative AI as a forward-thinking tool for skills assessment, self-assessment, and development. This understanding will place you at the forefront of your profession, ready to embrace and navigate the rapidly evolving world of AI in skills management. Diving deeper, we unpack the principles of valid and reliable skills assessment, familiarizing you with essential standards and benchmarks. You'll master techniques for assessing skill acquisition and form a robust process for gathering the necessary tools and techniques. Here, we explore the potential of Generative AI, an emerging technology that could further refine these assessment techniques. Then, emphasizing self-awareness, the course guides you to effectively self-assess your job-specific skills, reinforcing your assessments with peer and expert feedback. You'll learn to estimate your total skillset score for specific skill sets, creating a foundation for career advancement. At this stage, we discuss how Generative AI could potentially enhance the accuracy of self-assessments in the future. In the final stages, we discuss planning and executing skill-building training interventions using SMART goals. You'll use innovative tools such as Your Present Job Market Value, Self-Assessment Grid for Skills Evaluation (SAGE), and T-portfolio. The potential of Generative AI to improve these processes is also considered, positioning you at the cutting edge of your professional journey. Upon completion of this course, you'll be equipped with the knowledge, tools, and innovative thinking necessary to optimize your skill-building journey and achieve career growth and advancement. With our course, you're not just taking a step forward; you're launching into a brighter, AI-augmented future. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to: - Identify and analyze job-specific skills in your area of interest. - Develop a systematic process for analyzing and auditing your skills. - Discover standards and benchmarks for assessing mastery of skill acquisition. - Develop a process for gathering tools and techniques for skills assessment. - Self-assess your mastery in job-specific skills, verified using peer/expert feedback. - Estimate your total skillset score for job-specific skill sets. - Plan and execute a skill-building training intervention using SMART skill-building goals. - Understand the potential use of Generative AI in skills assessment, self-assessment, and development and remain at the forefront of your professional journey by being informed about emerging technologies. This course is an invaluable stepping-stone towards your career growth and advancement, giving you the tools, insights, and innovative thinking needed to optimize your skill-building journey.

الوحدات

Developing the Functional Component of Your Career Brand

    • 3 Videos
    • 2 Readings
    • 2 Discussion
    • 2 Assignment
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2 Assignment

  • Week 1 Practice Quiz 1
  • Week 1 Practice Quiz 2

2 Discussions

  • Discussion: T-Shaped Professionals
  • Discussion: Quantified Self

3 Videos

  • Why do we need a skill builder?
  • How to build a skill builder?
  • What can we learn from business strategy?

2 Readings

  • T-Shaped Professionals: A Case Study by Morten Hansen at the 2014 T-Summit
  • The Power of Auto-Analytics, or The Quantified Self

Week 1 Review

    • 1 Videos
    • 2 Assignment
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2 Assignment

  • Week 1 Practice Quiz 3
  • Week 1 Final Quiz

1 Videos

  • DREAM skills for dream jobs

Career Development Lab (CDL)

    • 3 Videos
    • 2 Readings
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3 Videos

  • Career development lab: Introduction
  • Case study: Hiring a new employee
  • Self-coaching toolbox: Assessment grid and T-portfolio (pdf attached)

2 Readings

  • CDL Weekly workout schedule
  • Case study: Hiring a new employee

About the course

    • 4 Readings
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4 Readings

  • How this course works
  • Optional reading
  • Course developers and contributors
  • Reuse of content

Expert assessment tools and techniques

    • 7 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 2 Assignment
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2 Assignment

  • Week 2 Practice quiz 1
  • Week 2 Practice quiz 2

7 Videos

  • Introduction to Week 2: What is going on behind the scenes?
  • Critical tasks
  • Standards and benchmarks
  • Assessment tools: Rubrics
  • Expert assessment
  • Interviews
  • Benchmarking: An interview with Tom Lindsley

1 Readings

  • Resources

Week 2 Review

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • What have we learned in Week 2?

1 Videos

  • What have we learned in Week 2?

Career Development Lab

    • 2 Videos
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2 Videos

  • Skills assessment (pdf attached)
  • Self-coaching toolbox: Self-assessment grid and T-portfolio (pdf attached)

Peer review assignment - Part 1

    • 1 PeerReview
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1 Peer Review

  • Peer Review 1: Making Sense of Skills Assessment

Self-assessment tools and techniques

    • 5 Videos
    • 2 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Week 3 Practice quiz 1

5 Videos

  • Introduction to Week 3
  • Meet Sonya (pdf attached)
  • Sonya's self-assessment, part 1
  • Sonya's self-assessment, part 2
  • Exercise: Self-assessment

2 Readings

  • Supplementary materials: Creating PowerPoint presentations
  • Supplementary materials: Delivering PowerPoint presentations

What does literature say about self-assessment?

    • 3 Videos
    • 3 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Week 3 Practice quiz 2

3 Videos

  • What does literature say about self-assessment? (pdf attached)
  • Tools of self-assessment (pdf attached)
  • Accuracy of self-assessment (pdf attached)

3 Readings

  • Exploring self-assessment
  • Exploring self-assessment tools
  • Employer's perspective on selection: An interview with Pamela Lanier

Week 3 Review

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • What have we learned in Week 3?

1 Videos

  • What have we learned in Week 3?

Career Development Lab

    • 2 Videos
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2 Videos

  • Self-coaching toolbox: Self-assessment grid for evaluation (SAGE) (document attached)
  • Self-coaching toolbox: Present job market value (PJMV) and the Dashboard

Theory to practice

    • 9 Videos
    • 2 Assignment
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2 Assignment

  • Week 4 Practice quiz 1
  • Week 4 Practice Quiz 2

9 Videos

  • Introduction to Week 4
  • Final skill building dashboard
  • 360 degree self-assessment
  • Revisiting the SWOT analysis
  • Present job market value
  • Self-coaching vs. professional coaching
  • Implementing your strategy
  • Self-assessment of the leadership style: An interview with Elliot Masie
  • Qualities of a leader: An interview with Elliot Masie

Week 4 Review

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • What have we learned in Week 4?

1 Videos

  • What have we learned in Week 4?

Peer review assignment - Part 2

    • 1 PeerReview
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1 Peer Review

  • Peer Review 2: Putting Self-Coaching to Work

Career Development Lab

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • CDL Workouts review: Making sense of personal analytics

Course review

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • What have we learned in the course?

1 Videos

  • Course review

1 Readings

  • End of the course survey

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Embark on a transformative journey with "Building and Managing Superior Skills," a Coursera course in Personal Development. Led by expert instructors, this professional-level program delves into strategies for skills-based hiring, auditing, and advancement. Spanning 1080 minutes, it integrates Generative AI for precise skills assessment and development. Ideal for modern professionals seeking career growth, it offers systematic skill analysis, SMART goal planning, and innovative tools like SAGE and T-portfolio. Available via a Starter subscription, this course ensures you stay ahead in the AI-driven professional landscape.

Dr. Valeri Chukhlomin
Instructors

Dr. Valeri Chukhlomin

Amy Giaculli
Instructors

Amy Giaculli