AmCham Montenegro, in cooperation with the consulting firm Blue Coach, hosted today a workshop for AmCham Internship Program’s participants entitled “Confidence – Competence Gap”. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Srdjan Vukcevic, the CEO of Blue Coach and certified coach, with more than 10 years of experience in the area. Mr. Vukcevic has trained and coached business owners, sports coaches and professional players, top executives, senior managers and directors, mainly in Europe during his career.

This workshop focused to determine the demarcation line between competence and confidence, by introducing these concepts into real life examples. Likewise, students learned how low self-esteem leads to higher competencies, the three master motives and how they are driven by our unconscious behaviour, as well as the difference between identity and reputation.

Workshop also focused on providing examples of what do the most successful people do differently and breaking the career myths, in order to give a different perspective to interns regarding their future professional careers.

AmCham Internship Program is a comprehensive three – month experience for nearly graduates, during which they can get an insight into the business world, make their first business contacts and reevaluate their professional ambitions. AmCham strives to provide also an educational part of the Program, through organizing such workshops, in order to prepare the students for the job application period that awaits them upon graduation.

This year, the AmCham Internship Program gathers 27 students from the three major universities in Montenegro: University of Montenegro, University Donja Gorica and Mediterranean University. We thank to our member companies who supported the Program this year: Daily Press Vijesti, Deloitte, Crnogorski Telekom, Represent Communications, Kingscliffe Distribution Montenegro – DHL, Telemont, Univerzitet Mediteran, Čikom, Stratex Development, Gintasmont – Hotel RAMADA, Neregelia, Hotel Regent Porto Montenegro, McCann Podgorica, Telenor, Societe Generale Montenegro. We also want to thank to Business Art company which provided internship position for one student.

The AmCham Internship Program will run untill July 11, 2016. We congratulate all interns for successfully completing this Program and we look forward to welcoming  the new generation of AmCham interns in 2017!