Early Careers Development Programme

Topics to choose from:

Time, Task & Planning Skills

  • Why personal organisation & planning is important at work
    • The importance of meeting deadlines
  • Recognising your current ways of working
    • Identifying how and where time is being wasted
    • Prioritising your workload
    • Urgent v’s Important
  • Effective scheduling & diary management
  • The do’s and don’ts of writing a task list
  • Managing downtime, delays & interruptions
  • Delegating tasks ~ learning to let go
  • Setting clear objectives
  • The importance of having personal goals / objectives

Problem Solving/Decision-Making Skills

  • What problems do you currently face?
    • Review of existing approaches to solving problems
  • An introduction to different problem-solving models / techniques
  • Being creative in the way in which you approach the problem
  • Understanding left brain / right brain ways of thinking
  • Challenging the norm
  • Researching the problem to provide meaningful data
  • Conducting meetings using “The 6 Thinking Hats”
  • Using different decision-making strategies
  • Avoiding procrastination & delays

Developing Personal Resilience

  • The importance of personal well-being at work
    • What is resilience?
    • The difference between stress and pressure
  • Knowing what happens to us when we are under pressure
    • Recognising when your anxiety levels are heightened
    • Physical, emotional and psychological signs of stress
  • The characteristics of a resilient person
    • Being flexible & adaptable / managing setbacks / change
  • Developing personal levels of resilience
    • Combating negative thoughts
    • Being more objective under pressure
    • What circumstances undermine resilience?

Looking after your Mental Health at Work

  • What is mental ill health?
    • The importance of personal well-being at work
    • The difference between stress and pressure
    • The scale of the issue and why it is important
  • Why does it seem uncomfortable for us to talk about mental health ~ breaking the stigma!
  • Understanding the common causes & symptoms
    • What experiences have you witnessed?
  • Identifying different mental health issues
  • How to help avoid mental health issues arising
    • Improve wellbeing / peer support / taking a break
    • Making workplace adjustments
  • Support & care for a colleague with a mental health issue

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