Advanced Seminar Marketing, Strategy, Leadership & Management: Life Mastery: Essential Human, Social, and Financial Skills They Don’t Teach in School

This course exists to cover and convey all the content that otherwise falls short - whether in school, college, education, and public exchange - so that students of all disciplines can gain and benefit from this knowledge. What really matters in life, work and career? Many of the unwritten laws and connections are discovered by many people only late in life and are often only passed on informally among themselves. The aim of this seminar is to close these "white spots" and "gaps" by conveying practical, useful content, the knowledge and understanding of which represents real added value for work, career and other areas of life. In doing so, this course focuses on three overarching topics: - personal competencies (such as career planning and self-leadership; e.g., "How do I know what I really want?", "How can I set critical priorities for my career?", or "How can I strategically use microhabits to achieve my goals?"). - social skills (such as communication and relationship management; e.g., "How do I generate positive feedback?" or "How do I deal with difficult counterparts?"), - financial competencies (such as planning finances, asset, and retirement; e.g., "What is passive income and how can I take advantage of it?").

Students who have attended this seminar will possess - a comprehensive understanding of key design opportunities in work, career, and life - knowledge of major issues related to personal, social, and financial skills, as well as promising approaches and methods to address these issues and have acquired practical skills in - personal, social, and financial competencies, - critical thinking, reflection, and application of concepts and scientific findings to concrete challenges, and - engaging and descriptive preparation of content for practical application. - basic knowledge of working scientifically.

The examination consists of 1) an individual presentation (25% of the final grade) 2) an individual written work (75% of the final grade). In the examination, students demonstrate that they - have understood an assigned topic in depth and have demonstrated the most important aspects in a way that is comprehensible to their fellow students - have identified and prepared practical fields of application for this topic - have presentation and communication skills that enable them to present their findings on the topic in a clear and structured manner and discuss the applicability of their findings to business practice

IMPORTANT: Available seats will be allocated based on academic eligibility, relevant experience and skills.

In this seminar, participants will receive input on the topics covered in various thematic blocks, as well as working materials for self-study and reappraisal. Subsequently, the contents are deepened in the seminar in the context of exercises, role plays, reflections, presentations and discussions. As part of the examination, the participants will work on a topic from one of the three areas in depth and in detail and prepare this didactically in such a way that all other course participants can also benefit from it. During the seminar, they will have the opportunity to present and discuss this topic and to receive feedback on the developed content following the presentation as well as in the context of a peer-review process. Based on this, the participants will further elaborate, concretize and vividly prepare their topic in the course of the semester.