How to work with competence development
All managers and staff at AAU must have the opportunity to maintain and develop their professional, personal and social skills, with due consideration of the needs of the workplace and the general trends in the labour market. Competence development must contribute to AAU being perceived as a desirable workplace able to attract, develop and affiliate qualified staff.
Competence development is all activities that challenge, develop, train, update and maintain the individual staff member's knowledge and skills in terms of current and upcoming tasks. Competence development takes place not only with the individual but also throughout the organization in the way we work together and share our knowledge. Competence development is more than participation in formal courses and educational programmes, and can take place at an individual level, in groups and as cross-disciplinary organizational learning.
Competence development includes, for example:
Finding information on how you can work with competence development both as a manager and staff member. This includes reading about how to work strategically with competence development; the five principles for working with competence development at AAU; and finding guides on how to use the staff/management/group performance and development review in your competence development efforts.
