Character Development Certificate Programme

Program Overview

Character Development

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People are not born managers. Managers are made. Do you want to achieve management success? Start with the most difficult thing - managing your own life and yourself.

Why study this programme?

In today’s fragmented and stressful world, it is more important than ever to have the know-how to navigate and to grow as individuals and as a society. This programme provides the necessary skills and emphasises inclusivity in multicultural environments.

This programme will bring you the ability to analyse and plan your life, and most importantly, adjust and change your plans as well as projected tasks at any time with minimal consequences, using only the minimum necessary amount of resources.

Create your life plan and make your wildest and most ambitious plans come true.

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Who is this programme for?

• School dropouts
• MBA/MA/MSc students
• Social workers
• Migrants
• Individuals experiencing middle-age crisis or post-traumatic stress disorder
• Those shaping their future paths

Key programme details

• Delivery: Hybrid (two on-campus sessions + self-study via Canvas)
• Duration: 4 weeks
• Intakes: May, July, September, and November
• Degree awarded by: Berlin School of Business and Innovation
• Fees: BSBI students on academic degree programmes: Free* / Alumni: €625 / Non-BSBI students: €1,250 Students are eligible to attend two certificate programmes free of charge. However, if a student wishes to enrol in more than two programmes, a fee of €625 will be required for each extra programme.

This programme includes:

• Two sessions, each four hours, conducted through synchronous learning
• 42 hours of asynchronous learning via BSBI’s Educational Platform
• Final test at the end of the programme

What skills will you gain?

Participants will create their own plan for their lives and work to make their wildest and most ambitious plans come true.

How will you learn?

• Live learning from an expert faculty
• Learning from an industry expert
• Committed support team
• High-tech learning platform
• Forum discussion for peer-to-peer learning

Program Outline

This program emphasizes inclusivity and supports lifelong learning from school to real-world scenarios.

Target Audience

• School dropouts
• MBA/MA/MSc students
• Social workers
• Migrants
• Individuals experiencing mid-life crisis or post-traumatic stress disorder
• Anyone shaping their future path

Program Structure

• Part 1: Choosing Your Big Ambitious Goal (BAG)
• Part 2: Overcoming Your Fears
• Part 3: Changing the Goal
• Part 4: Tools and Instruments

Learning Outcomes

• Develop long-, middle-, and short-term goals corresponding to life strategies of personalities.
• Identify and evaluate personal life strategies considering available opportunities and resources.
• Obtain advice on personal goals concerning relevance and feasibility, considering emerging risks and limitations.
• Engage with one’s own life based on individual desires and capabilities.

Learning Methods

• Live learning from expert faculty
• Learning from industry experts
• Committed support team
• High-tech learning platform
• Peer-graded assignments for collaboration and bias elimination
• Regular live sessions with lecturer

Assessment

• Multiple-choice quiz
• Participants will create their own life plan and work towards achieving their goals.
• Dr. Svitlana Samoylenko, a business studies lecturer with experience in international business development and management, leads the program.
• This program is part of a larger research project, "The Art of Living: A Comprehensive Study of Life Strategies," initiated by Global University Systems (GUS) and BSBI.