Registration to the “Future Skills Pentathlon”
VU Counseling and Career Centre invites you to join Future Skills Pentathlon. It’s a unique training program based on experiential and reflective learning and focused on working on five competencies: cooperation, responsibility, interculturality, problem solving and openness to change.
More about the program: https://www.vu.lt/studentams/paslaugos-studentams/karjeros-paslaugos/pentathlon
This program will be carried out in cooperation with our partners: SEB, Western Union, and Softera.
You will:
- Discover your strengths in a team. Get to know your own and your teammates’ personality types, explore the roles you naturally excel in, and reflect on key collaboration skills such as active listening, giving feedback, and staying positive. You’ll also learn about the different stages of team development.
- Understand your sense of responsibility. Assess how you take responsibility on personal, team, and social levels, recognize where your limits are, and discover whether you respond to challenges with a proactive or reactive mindset.
- Grow your cultural awareness. Evaluate your intercultural competence by exploring two useful models—intercultural sensitivity development and the culture map—to better understand how to overcome stereotypes and work effectively across cultures.
- Sharpen your problem-solving skills. Learn the IDEAL problem-solving model through practical case studies, practice identifying the real problem, and understand what typically gets in the way of effective decision-making.
- Embrace change with creativity. Through improvisation activities, you’ll discover how open you are to surprises and change—all while having fun.
You‘ll enjoy the experience while connecting with students from diverse courses and specialities, expanding your network, sharing insights in a secure environment, and embracing diverse and enriching opinions.
The training program consists of: 8 weekly workshops focused on five key competencies; 2 consultations with a career counsellor: the first as part of the selection process, and the second for career development; structured reflection through the e-learning course Future Competencies.
Sessions are held from 15:00 to 18:00, and on November 26, from 17:00 to 19:00. Consultation times will be arranged individually with each participant. All sessions will be held on-site; however, locations will vary.