With the right insight in your personality, knowing your skills and how to use your resources you can be successful in your life on the levels you choose. Learning to take the lead and manage your own (professional) life is also very helpful in managing others in their work and projects: if you don’t know how to manage yourself, how can you manage others?

In this course, you will learn how to recognize, develop and use your talents and strengths in an effective way. You will also determine your personal values, your various goals and you will work out a path to get there. As a result, you’ll have a clear view on how to improve the use of your talents in a way that gives you the most energy, joy and results. 

With the help of practical management tools you will write your personal development plan 

Working together with other PhD candidates in this group will give you the opportunity to share experiences and to get feedback from each other.

• Use your talents and strengths efficiently

• Make a personal and professional development plan