Self-Management - Seafarer Achievement Striving Training

 Course Description

Employers across various industries are now incorporating seafarer's level of soft skills into their crewing decisions. The Soft, "non-technical skills" are increasingly important on board due to the rapidly changing workforce and automation of technical tasks. Additionally, maritime accident investigations indicate that a lack of soft skills and human error is the most common reason behind accidents at sea.

Achievement striving involves setting personal challenging goals and trying hard to achieve excellence. It constitutes the drive to keep learning and growing at the workplace, the willingness to apply intense effort over a long period of time to pursue one's goals and resolve obstacles to achieve a target.

This course presents the perfect opportunity for you as a seafarer to be proactive and showcase that you are ready to meet the industry's modern-day demands.

 Course Objectives

This course aims to develop your achievement striving skill and help you establish and maintain high-performance standards by setting personal "SMART" goals.

 Target Audience

This course is suitable for all officer ranks onboard, including:

• Management Level Deck Officers
• Operational Level Deck Officers
• Management Level Engine Officers
• Operational Level Engine Officers

 Course Structure

Module 1: The real challenge
Module 2: Set the achievement standards
Module 3: Owning the GOALS

 Learning Outcomes

Module 1: The real challenge: encourages you to see and become who you need to be to achieve your goals.
Module 2: Set the achievement standards: focuses on SMART goals and how to utilize them.
Module 3: Owning the GOALS: builds on the set goals and covers how to own your goals – to know your impact and adjust your actions accordingly.

 Prerequisites

Willingness to evolve and develop yourself personally and professionally.

 Course Characteristics

Course Duration: 60 days
Timeframe: Approx. 12min
Language: English
Certificate: Yes (valid indefinite)
Strong Authentication: No
Daily test attempts: 2
Min % of progress on GuideMe to access TestMe: 90%
Min % of passing the TestMe: 100%
Total test time: 30 min

 Technical Requirements

We recommend the use of a wired internet connection when taking this course. Connection via mobile internet is also possible; however, it is considered unstable and might cause the failure of your exam.

Supported Internet Browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Edge

Operating Systems:

Windows 8 or higher with latest updates installed

MacOS 10.12 Siera or higher with latest updates installed

Apple iOS 11 or higher with latest updates installed