Vak: Professional Skills 3: Entrepreneurial and Media Skills credits: 5

A true entrepreneur is proactive, creative and able to use imagination. The student will need these skills to discover his own entrepreneurial qualities, develop his own entrepreneurial ideas and test them in an international market setting. In Advisory Skills 3 he/she will be learning techniques which will help him to think creatively about his/her own cognitive framework, how to conceptualize, and how to network in a result oriented way in an international context.
 
Part of this training includes creative techniques such as “Six Hats” of De Bono, and Sarasvathy’s “Effectuation” model. An entrepreneurial test and knowledge on intercultural sensitivity supports him in developing a clear insight into himself as an internationally oriented, creative, networking consultant. Assignments are related to the project.
 
Creative writing skills are practiced and storytelling techniques applied to the story scenario for the personal branding movie (CCO1 project).The student learns to write his/her own story for his/her business and media concept. In addition, he/she will be learning how to pitch, which means speaking in a persuasive manner, using powerful verbal, and non-verbal skills and visual aids.

In Language 3, students will explore and practice blog writing.