The lecture Talent Engineering – From Purpose to Impact teaches you subtle frameworks, comprehensive concepts, and productivity tools to systematically advance the way you conduct your research projects – including the most important one: Your Master or PhD project.
You learn a design thinking-based approach needed to thrive and grow beyond standard norms on a daily basis. Talent Engineering will help you gain clarity on your purpose to improve the effectiveness of your capabilities, your contributions, and your outreach. Unlike other programs, you learn a holistic-based approach that focuses on your fitness for long-term high performance, deals with uncertainty and improvement in a process-oriented way, and addresses your coherence with all your relationships and communities.
This is a visiting professor course of the Vienna PhD School of Informatics.
Core Approach
This introductory part of the module focuses the core concepts, models, and processes of the Talent Engineering approach, including the Y-Framework, Center of Gravity, Centers of Purpose, You-Model, and the Agile Journey.
Charge
The Charge part of the module has the focus on leading, managing, and serving. It addresses the multiple aspects of being in charge, including fear and emotional aspects, gaining confidence, the nature of Objectives, Logical Framework Approach, interaction dynamics, coaching and training, self-management, skill management, and advanced self-perception. As part of the Y-Framework, the Charge Journey will be introduced.
Connect
The Connect part of the module has the main focus on outreach. It addresses the different aspects of dissemination and communication activities by dealing with advanced concepts in the context of PhD Symposia, workshops, conferences, journals & more, peer-review & Program Committees, presentations, and tutorials. As part of the Y-Framework, the Paper Writing Journey will be introduced.
Contribute
The Contribute part of the module sets the main focus on envisioning, exploring, and improving. It addresses the manifold challenges by introducing the generic contribution journey and reflecting on the different aspects of projects, from defining the early input to planning to designing to solving to testing. It discusses the assumptions, facets and non-technical aspects having impact on your project’s success, and how to deal with it in an effective way. As part of the Y-Framework, the PhD Journey will be introduced.
