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In an increasingly complex and dynamic world, young executives need certain soft skills to be forearmed for the challenges of their job. The need for training of these personal skills in higher education is recognized among the business and information systems engineering (BISE) society. Yet, existing approaches often integrate the development of soft skills implicitly, usually without quantitively measuring the impact on students. However, an initial literature review identified a demand for an explicit and systematic integration of personal skills in basic lectures. We present an approach that systematically integrates the training of personal skills in a basic BISE lecture for first-semester students. To exemplify this approach, we describe the integration of the selfleadership strategy self-observation in a lecture on process modeling. Our research project follows the Design Science Research methodology. The outlook previews the completion of the first design cycle by describing the planned evaluation and further research ideas.

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Jan 17th, 12:00 AM

Personal Skills in the BISE Curriculum: An Integrative Approach

In an increasingly complex and dynamic world, young executives need certain soft skills to be forearmed for the challenges of their job. The need for training of these personal skills in higher education is recognized among the business and information systems engineering (BISE) society. Yet, existing approaches often integrate the development of soft skills implicitly, usually without quantitively measuring the impact on students. However, an initial literature review identified a demand for an explicit and systematic integration of personal skills in basic lectures. We present an approach that systematically integrates the training of personal skills in a basic BISE lecture for first-semester students. To exemplify this approach, we describe the integration of the selfleadership strategy self-observation in a lecture on process modeling. Our research project follows the Design Science Research methodology. The outlook previews the completion of the first design cycle by describing the planned evaluation and further research ideas.