Manager & Soft Skills

Google Drive is one of the most widely used open source software that allows you to work, store, synchronize and share documents and different files. I started using it for my master's degree thesis, sharing bibliographic material with a team of students. But I have known its full potential during the PhD Project as I used the GoogleForm to disseminate the BIP questionnaire, a research tool for my project. Google Drive has become an indispensable tool for my work because it allows me to work and always have the material available by accessing from different devices. I also had the opportunity to work on a scientific article with an international working group (Italy - Finland - Spain), and the use of the software allowed us to modify the documents in a shared way, arriving to deliver the article in the time established. Google Drive overcomes the space-time limitations, like all web devices, and has allowed research to spread more rapidly and more widely. https://forms.gle/DK...

Diigo is a social bookmarking platform, very interesting because it allows you to organize, store, find and share the most interesting content on the web. Is a simple tool to use and that allows you to save all the sites, articles and videos we have read and want to keep on your own personal space, allowing us to create a library with the best content found on the web. The web is by definition the absence of order, a place - not a place of chaos, where access to information is free: Diigo bookmarking allows us not only to produce new knowledge, but to reorganize it and find it again if necessary.

Feedly is a valid platform for aggregating news from different sources. the layout of the site makes it easy to use, allowing the user to aggregate everything that is of interest to him in a clear and functional manner. it is the first time that I have come into contact with feedly and I am sure that it will be an indispensable tool for my doctoral project. The utility of feedly is to be able to select useful sources for the blog and to stay updated through a notification whenever there is a new content to read through the rss feeds. Not only does it allow you to organize the sources, but it also allows you to discover new ones by creating professional networks with other users who share the same rss. The feeds I have included in my area refer mainly to magazine sites that publish articles in the education and training sector so I can read their articles and understand which magazine to publish my research work in the future.

The growing importance of soft skills requires a change of perspective that considers competence in its sense of relationality and transversality that makes it transferable in different contexts, and the manager is the figure that best represents the change in progress. According to ESCO (European Standard Classification of Occupations) “Managers plan, direct, coordinate and evaluate the overall activities of enterprises, governments and other organizations, and formulate and review their policies, laws, rules and regulations” . Is a complex professional because moves on two levels: organizational and motivational, plans activities and, at the same time leads the team to achieve the goals. According to a research by Federmanager (Federmanager 2016), the figure of the manager is evolving more and more in the direction of soft skills, so in the coming years there will be the affirmation of the network manager: this manager helps team to act in synergy in a context of osmosis and s...

Social Research 2.0

Success in the world of work has become a necessity that many professionals have in common: establishing oneself in society means being able to read the contexts and anticipate opportunities for growth. What enables us to realize this need is the concept of competence, a strategic competence defined as the ability to organize and mobilize all our knowledge, skills and competences (Alberici, Serreri 2009). According to a survey conducted by Manpowergroup in collaboration with the University of Florence (Manpowergroup, 2014), which involved over 600 companies throughout Italy, the key skills for a young person entering the world of work are three: the ability to work in team, orientation towards results and ideational thinking. In the field of selection, transversal skills also represent about 60% of the evaluation. In the context of Lifelong Learning, the manager becomes a prominent figure, whose...