Training Freshmen Engineers as Managers to Develop Soft Skills: A Person-Centred Approach

This article describes a subject design to train engineer students in soft skills through an experiential and person-centred approach, as is usually developed in companies for managers to incorporate responsible and ethical engineering perspectives. This design is based on an experiential methodology and its impact on students is presented. The subject, called “Personal and Professional Effectiveness”, was designed and developed based on Covey’s classic book “The 7 habits of highly effective people” and introduces ethical and social commitment among other contents. A detailed description of different activities carried out within the module is provided to allow replication. Students’ perception, gathered from their reflexive diaries, and academic satisfaction survey results are presented. Students report that this teaching method leads to a deeper connection with themselves and increased awareness of their strengths and weaknesses. Students seem to have understood the importance of sustainability and how individual behavior impacts in an engineering team. They reflect on how being aware of their own strengths and difficulties helps them integrate different knowledge into their daily lives and how this can improve their behaviors, not only professionally, but also personally.

‘Be a model, not a critic’: Self-help culture, implicit censorship and the silent organization

This article seeks to explain ‘silent organizations’ (i.e. organizations with an absence of critical voices) through an analytical perspective derived from Judith Butler’s work on censorship, and in this way suggest an alternative to explanations in the existing literature on employee silence, which are often tied to the actions and motivations of the individual employee. It is thus argued that self-help books are reflective of wider cultural dynamics and concomitant normative pressures directed at the subject in contemporary capitalism, which among other things promote the absence of criticism in the workplace. The empirical point of departure for this argument is the two bestselling and culturally resonant self-help books The Secret by Rhonda Byrne and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. Theoretically, the article applies Butler’s notion of ‘implicit censorship’ where censorship is understood as productive in the sense of being constitutive of language and subjects. Hence, in the analysis, it is shown how discursive regimes in self-help literature tend to be constructed in such a way that extroverted criticism cannot emerge as a meaningful activity, and is thus implicitly censored.

Optimalisasi Personal Awareness Anak Usia Dini Melalui “The 7 Habits”

The purpose of this research is to explain the process and result of applying The 7 Habits method that can optimization personal awareness in group B TK Negeri Pembina Surabaya. This study uses the Kemmis and Mc Taggart procedures which consists of four stages: planning, action, observation, and reflection. The data analysis technique consisted of quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Quantitative data analysis is presented in the form of tables and graphs. While qualitative data analysis using technique according to Miles and Huberman which consists of data reduction, data display, and verification collected through personal awareness instruments, interviews, field notes, and documentation. After the first cycle of action, the average value of 68,47%. Then after second cycle of action, the average value increase to 84,17%. It can be concluded that by using the 7 Habits method can improve personal awareness in children.

Guidanceship Training Bagi Pendamping Kamar Santri Pondok Pesantren Pabelan

Abstrak. Guidanceship training ini bertujuan untuk membekali para pendamping kamar dalam menjalankan tugas kependampingan sebagai seorang kakak kelas, berdasarkan hasil survey awal kepada 137 santri didapatkan hasil bahwa 79% santri (109 diantaranya) merasa tidak menemukan suasana yang nyaman di dalam kamar karena masih banyak keluhan dan masalah dari para anggota kamar yang belum tertangani oleh pendamping kamar. Untuk itu perlu diadakannya pelatihan kependampingan bagi para pendamping kamar untuk menunjang tugas memberikan keteladanan dan solusi terhadap berbagai masalah yang muncul pada adik-adik kelas anggota kamarnya. Terdapat 6 materi yang diberikan kepada para pendamping kamar pada guidanceship training ini antara lain materi tentang keteladanan, karakter remaja, konseling sederhana, 7 habits, kebersihan dan kesehatan serta problem solving and decission making. Hasil evaluasi guidanceship training menilai materi-materi apa saja yang dirasa paling bermanfaat untuk menangani berbagai permasalahan anggota kamar dan mudah diaplikasikan dalam menjalankan tugas kependampingan. Dari jumlah total 80 peserta pelatihan didatkan hasil bahwa 14 peserta (17,5%) menganggap bahwa materi keteladanan merupakan materi yang paling aplikatif untuk bisa digunakan, 14 peserta (17,5%) menganggap bahwa materi karakter remaja adalah materi yang mudah diaplikasikan, 8 peserta (10%) menganggap bahwa materi konseling sederhana sebagai materi yang penting untuk dikuasai, 4 peserta (5%) menganggap bahwa maeri 7 habit sebagai materi yang menarik untuk diterapkan, 17 peserta (21,25%) menganggap bahwa materi kebersihan dan kesehatan adalah materi yang mudah untuk dijalankan dan 23 peserta (28,75%) menganggap bahwa materi tentang problem solving and decission making merupakan materi yang paling aplikatif dalam menjalankan tugas sebagai pendamping kamar. Berdasarkan hasil evaluasi tersebut dapat diketahui bahwa materi tentang problem solving and decission making menjadi materi pertama yang paling bermanfaat untuk menangani permasalahan anggota kamar dan mudah diaplikasikan, materi tentang keteladanan dan karakter remaja menjadi materi kedua dan ketiga yang dirasa bermanfaat dan mudah untuk dipraktekkan, materi tentang kebersihan dan kesehatan menjadi materi keempat yang dirasa bermanfaat dan mudah digunakan, materi tentang konseling sederhana menjadi materi kelima yang dirasa bermanfaat dan terakhir materi 7 habits menjadi materi yang tidak terlalu bermanfaat untuk digunakan dalam menjalankan tugas kependampingan. Kata kunci: guidanceship, pendamping, santri Abstract. Guidancehip training aims to equip the chaperones in the task of sidewalk as an older sibling, based on the results of the initial survey to 137 students obtained the result that 79% santri (109 of them) feel not find a comfortable atmosphere in the room because there are still many complaints and problems of the members of the room that have not been handled by the companion room. Therefore, it is necessary to provide the training of assistance to the companion of the chamber to support the task of providing exemplary and solution to the various problems that arise in the siblings of the class members of his room. There are 6 materials given to the counselors in the guidancehip training room include material about modeling, adolescent character, simple counseling, 7 habits, hygiene and health and problem solving and decission making. The results of evaluation of guidanceship training to assess what materials are considered most useful to handle various problems of members of the room and easy to apply in running the task kependampingan. Out of a total of 80 training participants, the 14 participants (17.5%) assume that exemplary material is the most applicable material to be used; 14 participants (17.5%) consider that adolescent character material is easy to apply, 8 participants (10%) considered that simple counseling material as an important material to be mastered, 4 participants (5%) considered that the seven habits as an interesting material to be applied, 17 participants (21.25%) considered that the hygiene and health materials were materials that are easy to run and 23 participants (28.75%) consider that the material on problem solving and decission making is the most applicable material in carrying out duties as chaperone. Based on the results of the evaluation can be seen that the material about problem solving and decission making to be the first material that is most useful to handle the problems of members and easy to apply, the material about exemplary and adolescent characters into second and third material that felt useful and easy to practice, hygiene and health into the fourth material that is felt useful and easy to use, the material about simple counseling into the fifth material that felt useful and the last material 7 habits into material that is not very useful for use in running the task sidewalk.Keywords: guidanceship, companion, student