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EM1F5MIS

International Soft Skills Essentials

Programme
PGE PGE5 International & European Business
Semestre
C
Coefficient
3
Volume horaire
Face à face : 20 H

Travail personnel indicatif : 40 H
Discipline
Organizational behavior / Leadership
Nombre de places
25
Cours ouvert aux étudiants visitants
Oui
Langue d'enseignement
Anglais
Responsable
Hélène LANGINIER Hélène
LANGINIER

Discipline

Organizational behavior / Leadership

Descriptif

This class will help you to enhance your intercultural skills through self-reflection. You will practise using some essential storytelling techniques so as to better sell your insights and experience in compelling elevator pitches.

MAC

Adopter une posture de leadership responsable/ Demonstrate responsible leadership
8 ECTS

Organisation pédagogique

Face-to-face

- Lectures

In group

- Exercises
- Oral presentations
- Case studies/texts

Interaction

- Discussions/debates

Objectifs pédagogiques - COGNITIVE DOMAIN

A l'issue du cours, l'étudiant(e) devrait être capable de / d'...
  • Interpret your interlocutor's behaviour according to his/her culture
  • Develop your intercultural effectiveness
  • Assess your level of intercultural sensitivity
  • formulate your strenghts and weaknesses based on intercultural effectiveness dimensions
  • enhance the outcome of your international experience in a compelling way

Objectifs pédagogiques - AFFECTIVE DOMAIN

A l'issue du cours, l'étudiant(e) devrait être capable de / d'...
  • question your cultural frame of reference
  • influence conflict generating intercultural situations

Objectifs pédagogiques — Objectifs de développement durable (ODD)

ODD n°4 - Quality education
ODD n°10 - Reduced inequalities
ODD portés par la politique RSO de l'EM.

Plan / Sommaire

The course is taught as 3 modules.

Module 1: Hélène Langinier
Develop your intercultural skills
In this module, students will learn to decipher cultural differences and will practise how to best showcase their intercultural skills in their future job applications.

Develop your multilingual skills

Students will utilize their intercultural knowledge and self-discovery ability in order to better communicate in a global working environment. To achieve this goal, they will:
1. Set-up a development plan to develop their intercultural competence with precise objectives and tactics to pratically achieve them. They will then reflect on
learning experiences and enhance their international employability.
As a result, students will be better able to:
2. Bridge the gap between their theoretical knowledge of intercultural interactions and their actual experiences of intercultural challenges.
3. Communicate in an individually distinctive manner in order to enjoy higher credibility as global thinkers and doers.

Module 2: Delphine Theurelle-Stein
"International personal branding"
In the module, students will improve their professional communication in a global environment. To achieve this goal, they will:
1. Elaborate an Elevator Pitch
2. Improve their application files (Resume, Cover letter)
3. Identify their soft skills and prepare their Success Story
4. Prepare job interviews



Prérequis nécessaires

Connaissances en / Notions clés à maîtriser

None

Supports pédagogiques

Mandatory tools for the course

- Computer
- Reference manuals

Documents in all formats

- Newspaper articles
- Case studies/texts

Moodle platform

- Upload of class documents
- Interface to submit coursework

Adossement à la recherche

Ce cours est adossé à la recherche.
  • Research-led (par les contenus)Le cours mobilise des connaissances issues de la recherche académique récente.

Bibliographie/références académiques

Langinier, H., Mac Gabhann, K., & Mehmanpazir, B. (2023). Intercultural learning factors of French students abroad: a focus on interpersonal engagement in context. Journal of International Business Education, 18, 59-84.

Travaux de recherche de l'EM

- Codello, P. & Theurelle-Stein, D. (2020), Developing soft skills through social learning: A model implemented at a Canadian Business School, in Grasser, B., Loufrani-Fedida, S. and Oiry, E. (Eds), Managing competences: Research, Practice and Contemporary Issues, Taylor and Francis Group. - Dangel, Stéphane; Tehami, Patricia. (2015). "Storytelling and Self-Management : Les Frontières du vécu à la croisée des cultures", 43e Congrès UPLEGESS, Strasbourg, mai 2015 - Langinier, Hélène; Froehlicher, Thomas (2018). “Context matters: Expatriates’ adjustment and contact with host country nationals in Luxembourg”, Thunderbird International Business Review, Vol. 60, N° 1, p. 105-119. Langinier, H., Mac Gabhann, K., & Mehmanpazir, B. (2023). Intercultural learning factors of French students abroad: a focus on interpersonal engagement in context. Journal of International Business Education, 18, 59-84. - Tehami, Patricia. (2017). "Enhancing Students’ Cross-cultural Understanding and Employability through Storytelling", Decision Line, Vol. 48, n° 4, p. 7-9

Modalités d'évaluation

Liste des modalités d'évaluation

? Evaluation intermédiaire / contrôle continu 1
Continuous evaluation during the semester
Orale (10 min) / Individuelle / Anglais / Pondération : 20%
Compétence mesurée
ILO2.2-PGE, ILO2.3-PGE, ILO3.1-PGE, ILO3.2-PGE, ILO4.1-PGE, ILO4.2-PGE
Evaluation finale 2
To be submitted on Moodle 14th of December 2026
Orale (5 min) / Individuelle / Anglais / Pondération : 80%
Compétence mesurée
ILO2.3-PGE, ILO2.4-PGE, ILO3.1-PGE, ILO4.1-PGE, ILO4.2-PGE
Seconde chance
To be submitted on Moodle 14th of December 2026
Orale (5 min) / Individuelle / Anglais / Pondération : 80%
Compétence mesurée
ILO2.3-PGE, ILO2.4-PGE, ILO3.1-PGE, ILO4.1-PGE, ILO4.2-PGE
Aucune modalité d'évaluation n'a pour le moment été attribuée à ce cours.