Klausureinsicht
Klausureinsicht/Exam Review: Wed 27.08.25 10:00 - 11:30 in G29/214
Soft Skills
This website contains organizational information for the winter term 2025/2026. You can find general information here Lehrangebot.
Soft Skills will be offered in Winter Term only, The language of the in-person lecture will be determined by majority voting in the first lecture. The video recordings in both languages are available. The exam will be available in both languages and will be conducted at the same time.
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Organizationals
- Language of face-to-face lectures winter semester 2025/26:
Recordings of all lectures are available in German and English are available via the portal mediasite.ovgu.de, please use your OVGU Shibboleth access to log in. - Lecture timing: Thursday 09:00-13:00 in G50-H3
- The access data for the lecture notes will be announced in the first lecture. For copyright reasons, the documents are only available to students of Otto von Guericke University. For this reason, inquiries by e-mail regarding the access data during the semester will only be answered if the sender is a university student e-mail address.
- Exam date: ...
- The exam date is for Soft Skills Basics (110110) exam in both languages start at the same time. The exam language can be chose via elearning before the exam.
- NOTE: Both the slides and additional information given in the lecture are relevant for the exam. The exam questions can not be answered solely by the information on the slides.
Semester Schedule and Lecture Slides
The order and dates of the specific lecture topics represent the current plan and are not yet binding. The slides are from the last academic year and will be updated if necessary, but not changed significantly.
The video recordings from past semesters are currently available in German and English and can be accessed as a stream from the mediasite with the OVGU Shibboleth access data. The videos will be updated if there are significant changes in the lecture content.
| Week | Date | Topic 1 | Topic 2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16.10. | Introduction / Organizational Information | video | ||
| 2 | 23.10. | Study Success | video | Study Skills | video |
| 3 | 30.10. | Goals 1 | video | Goals 2 | video |
| 4 | 06.11. | Entrepreneurship 1 | video | Entrepreneurship 2 | video |
| 5 | 13.11. | -- no lecture -- | -- no lecture -- | ||
| 6 | 20.11. | Time Management 1 | video | Time Management 2 | video |
| 7 | 27.11. | Four Sides of a Message | video | Presentations 1 | video |
| 8 | 04.12. | Presentations 2 | video | Presentations 3 | video |
| 9 | 11.12. | Project Management | video | Teamwork | video |
| 10 | 18.12. | Meetings | video | Generating Ideas | video |
| 11 | 08.01. | Success 1 | video | Success 2 | video |
| 12 | 15.01. | Temperaments/ Test sheet | video | Sustainability | video |
| 13 | 22.01. | Scientific Work I | video | Scientific Work II | video |
| 14 | 29.01. | Digital Rights | video | Computer Ethics | video |
Links
Topic Soft Skills
Topic Studies
- HIS-Studie zu Studienabbrüchen (pdf)
- Befragung von Informatik-Studenten der Uni-DO (pdf)
- Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: Das Abitur - immer noch eingültiger Indikator für die Studierfähigkeit?
Topic Goals
- Wikipedia-Eintrag über Terry Fox
- Terry Fox Seite der Simon Fraser University
- John Goddard's Ziele-Liste
Topic Presentations
Recommended reading
The books are located in the university library in section Y.020 (third floor left, at the beginning of the computer science department). They are exclusively reference copies! They are currently in the collection:
- Arthur B. VanGundy: Techniques of Structured Problem Solving
- Clayton M. Christensen: The innovator's dilemma - the revolutionary book that will change the way you do business
- Cyril Northcote Parkinson: Parkinsons Gesetz und andere Untersuchungen über die Verwaltung
- David Allen: Getting Things Done
- David Allen: Wie ich die Dinge geregelt kriege - Selbstmanagement für den Alltag
- David Keirsey: Please understand me - character & temperament types
- Edward de Bono: Six Thinking Hats
- Edward de Bono: Serious Creativity
- Fons Trompenaars: Riding the waves of culture - Understanding cultural diversity in business
- Friedemann Schulz von Thun: Miteinander reden (1) Störungen und Klärungen - Allgemeine Psychologie der Kommunikation
- Friedemann Schulz von Thun: Miteinander reden (2) Stile, Werte und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung - Differentielle Psychologie der Kommunikation
- Friedemann Schulz von Thun: Miteinander reden (3) Das "Innere Team"und situationsgerechte Kommunikation - Kommunikation, Person, Situation
- Geoffrey Petty: How to be better at.... creativity
- Hans-Werner Rückert: Schluss mit dem ewigen Aufschieben - Wie Sie umsetzen, was Sie sich vornehmen
- Jon R. Katzenbach: The wisdom of teams - creating the high-performance organization
- Jörg Knoblauch: www.ziele.de - Wie Sie Schritt für Schritt Ihre Ziele erreichen
- Julie Straw: The 4-dimensional manager : DiSC strategies for managing different people in the best ways
- Katrin Hansen: Selbst- und Zeitmanagement - Optionen erkennen, selbstverantwortlich handeln, in Netzwerken agieren
- Nadja Schnetzler: Die Ideenmaschine - Methode statt Geistesblitz - wie Ideen industriell produziert werden
- Patrick Lencioni: The five dysfunctions of a team - A leadership fable
- Robert A. Harris: Creative problem solving - a step-by-step approach
- Schulz-Wimmer: Projekte managen. - Planegg : Haufe Verl., 2007
- Schulz-Wimmer: Projektmanagement. - Planegg : Haufe Verl., 2007
- Stephen R. Covey: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
- Stephen R. Covey: Die 7 Wege zur Effektivität - Prinzipien für privaten und beruflichen Erfolg
- Stephen R. Covey: Der Weg zum Wesentlichen - Zeitmanagement der vierten Generation
- Tom Sommerlatte: Innovationskultur und Ideenmanagement - Strategien und praktische Ansätze für mehr Wachstum