For turn out to be a international person in charge

I've always wanted to be a manager and liked to be involved in solving complex problems, so I worked hard with my engineering education to acquire many of the skills necessary to become such a person.

I imagined become a global leader of the 21st century - a quick study with an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, with the ability to work outside their area of ​​expertise when necessary and work anywhere in the world, make decisions quickly and to communicate with any kind of person,

How could acquire these skills?

Phase Ideas-gathering identify skill-set

I spent almost two months reading the survey reports on the problems faced by large corporations, the study of future trends and many other different things to identify what are the skills for global managers. I used LinkedIn, and a few of my social media friends to identify the skills needed for such an interdisciplinary global manager. Here's what I learned:

• 1st Interdisciplinary Studies: they took part in the European Parliament Open Day, I was thrilled to have public policy as one of the interdisciplinary aspects of learning in my program.
• 2nd Future trends: environmental policy and urban planning are just some of the trends identified that may be useful for a person to understand the changing needs of the organization. "Big data" is another trend that I added in the later part of the project from the discussion on LinkedIn.
• 3. Globalization, culture and language: when I got the word "global leader", it was necessary for me to really understand the meaning behind the first globalization and how I could become a global person. My positive experience of living in Denmark was helpful. In his research, I have found jobs are not the e-mail communication has become confused between people from different nations, because they did not understand each other's culture, including their history, social customs and political frameworks. Learning different languages ​​can help overcome language difficulties.

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Selection skills during steps

So far, you might have seen that my ambition is too big to fit into any of the traditional program. In 2012, I did not have enough financial resources to go for professional education and I had no intention of taking out a loan of higher education.

I was through the traditional educational system; it is unnecessary for me to compete for a degree, that I was obsessed with the development of skill-set. With very good exposure to the business and management of many years of work, I was looking for something very different.

After careful reflection, I have decided to make their way of learning. I was sure at first, but the discovery MOOCs - massive open online courses - after a few months gave me the impetus to continue its project and to complete it successfully.