Professional and Personal DevelopmentTransferable skills for work

Invaluable skills for both professional and personal development which will have an immediate impact on your approach to work and life.

Confidence building and re-building in mid/late career

Offered via: Centre for Lifelong Learning
Duration: 2 hour sessions over 8 weeks/2 hour sessions over 4 weeks
Delivery: Online or on-campus

Confidence in the workplace can be crucial to success. Confidence can make you more motivated and ambitious and help you overcome fear and anxiety so you can take action. Perhaps more importantly, confidence can help improve your performance and develop your skills.

This course has been designed specifically to support adults who may be looking to re-enter the workforce, are facing redundancy, considering a career change or are looking to grow in confidence in their current roles. 

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Presentation skills for work

Offered via: Centre for Lifelong Learning
Duration: 2 hour sessions over 8 weeks/2 hours sessions over 4 weeks
Delivery: Online or on-campus

This course has been designed for adults of any age who are looking to enhance their interview skills and employability, particularly those who may regularly have to deliver presentations in their roles. The content may also be appealing to those looking to enhance their own confidence in public speaking and personal development.

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Effective listening skills

Offered via: Centre for Lifelong Learning
Duration: 2 hour sessions over 8 weeks (can be flexible)
Delivery: Online or on-campus

Being able to communicate effectively is vital for career success but it is just as important to be able to listen effectively. This course will suit those who wish to improve and learn about listening to hear and respond appropriately. The skills gained will be of use in almost any group work environment and would provide a great addition to anyone’s CV as well as helping to provide tools to address workplace inequality. It will draw upon some of the fundamentals of counselling skills practice and as such is also a useful introduction to this field of study.

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Identifying and adapting your skills in mid/late career

Offered via: Centre for Lifelong Learning
Duration: 2 hour sessions over 8 weeks/2 hours sessions over 4 weeks (can be flexible)
Delivery: Online, on-campus or a mixture

Whatever area we are working in, we need to ensure we carry out our roles effectively, regularly reviewing what skills we need and identifying the most appropriate way to meet these needs. The ability to keep psychologically flexible whilst at the same time being adaptable within our skill set is vital in helping us to move forward.

The course is primarily intended to help support participants through times of change by increasing psychological flexibility and comfortableness relating to change and supporting them to identify their skill set, explore jobs that are suited best to this skill set and prepare them for interviews via CV development and job interview practice.

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