Knowing and aligning with your core values is essential for personal and professional fulfilment 🌱. Whether you're making career decisions 💼, forming new partnerships 🤝, or navigating life’s challenges 🚀, being grounded in your values helps you stay true to yourself and make meaningful, impactful choices.

The ability to effectively sell yourself is crucial, whether you're seeking a new job 💼, vying for a promotion 🚀, pitching to clients/investors 🤝, or building your professional network 🌐. This workshop will equip you with the essential knowledge, tools, and techniques to confidently showcase your unique skills, experience, and value proposition.

Goal-setting and accountability sessions are a way to enhance productivity and achieve personal and professional growth. They involve collaborating with others to stay motivated, learn from their experiences, avoid procrastination, and receive valuable feedback.

This is an online, interactive workshop for anyone who wants to build confidence, find jobs, change careers, or simply develop professionally. It will introduce you to the best tools, techniques, strategies and approaches to meet today’s career challenges.

Topics:
Career Planning • Career Change • CV and Cover Letter Writing • Interview Preparation • Building Confidence

This is an online, interactive workshop for anyone who wants to build confidence, find jobs, change careers, or simply develop professionally. It will introduce you to the best tools, techniques, strategies and approaches to meet today’s career challenges.

Topics:
Career Planning • Career Change • CV and Cover Letter Writing • Interview Preparation • Building Confidence

• Learn how to write compelling CVs, cover letters and personal statements

• Develop confidence and self-belief on an ongoing basis

• Discover work that you enjoy and make sure it’s the right career path for you

• Overcome limits that stop you from pursuing your ideal job/career

• Create an action plan that guarantees progress in any economy

• Setup a fail-safe system to ensure you persist with your long-term goals

• Harness the key tools, techniques, strategies of career development, regardless of your current position

• Interact, ask questions and get answers to all of your career-related concerns

• Learn how to reduce your risks and make good long-term career moves

• Answer difficult interview questions and discover what to say/not to say in an interview

Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since winning his first National Chess Championship at the age of nine, Waitzkin was catapulted into a media whirlwind as a teenager when his father's book Searching for Bobby Fischer was made into a major motion picture. After dominating the scholastic chess world for ten years, Waitzkin expanded his horizons, taking on the martial art Tai Chi Chuan and ultimately earning the title of World Champion. How was he able to reach the pinnacle of two disciplines that on the surface seem so different? "I've come to realize that what I am best at is not Tai Chi, and it is not chess," he says. "What I am best at is the art of learning."

An insightful new work from the multimillion-copy best-selling author Sean Covey and the FranklinCovey organization, based on their work with hundreds of thousands of employees and large companies. It unveils the essential disciplines proven to help businesses and individuals realize their most important goals.

A publishing phenomenon, Sean Covey and the FranklinCovey organization have become one of the most respected brands in the highly competitive world of thought leadership in business. In his latest work, Covey lays out an unprecedented plan for goal-realization that will revolutionize the way we approach our dreams.

Date: Thursday 3rd October 2019

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Over 6 million copies sold

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.

Date: Thursday 5 September 2019

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“Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world.” —Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take

“Engrossing.” —New York Times

From the award-winning columnist and author of the national bestseller The Undercover Economist comes a provocative big idea book about the genuine benefits of being messy: at home, at work, in the classroom, and beyond.

Look out for Tim's next book, Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy.

Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives celebrates the benefits that messiness has in our lives: why it’s important, why we resist it, and why we should embrace it instead. Using research from neuroscience, psychology, social science, as well as captivating examples of real people doing extraordinary things, Tim Harford explains that the human qualities we value – creativity, responsiveness, resilience – are integral to the disorder, confusion, and disarray that produce them.

From the music studio of Brian Eno to the Lincoln Memorial with Martin Luther King, Jr., from the board room to the classroom, messiness lies at the core of how we innovate, how we achieve, how we reach each other – in short, how we succeed.

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“Its many fans include a former governor and movie star (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a hip hop icon (LL Cool J), an Irish tennis pro (James McGee), an NBC sportscaster (Michele Tafoya), and the coaches and players of winning teams like the New England Patriots, Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Cubs, and University of Texas men’s basketball team.

The book draws its inspiration from stoicism, the ancient Greek philosophy of enduring pain or adversity with perseverance and resilience. Stoics focus on the things they can control, let go of everything else, and turn every new obstacle into an opportunity to get better, stronger, tougher. As Marcus Aurelius put it nearly 2000 years ago: “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” 

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“In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice.  Not only is the cliché flawed-preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work-but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping.

After making his case against passion, Newport sets out on a quest to discover the reality of how people end up loving what they do. Spending time with organic farmers, venture capitalists, screenwriters, freelance computer programmers, and others who admitted to deriving great satisfaction from their work, Newport uncovers the strategies they used and the pitfalls they avoided in developing their compelling careers. 

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Prepare to love lykke, the Danish word for happiness and fortune, with The Little Book of Lykke by Meik Wiking, whose Little Book of Hygge sold half a million copies. Wiking goes in search of the real meaning of happiness, and finds it has little to do with wealth. A funny, inspiring read (Psychologies)

Happiness can be elusive even for people who are mentally healthy. Many people, such as those with depression or anxiety who are struggling through darker times, may feel they want to give up the fight. That is why the charming and thought-provoking The Little Book of Lykke could lighten, guide and inspire so many. (Marjorie Wallace, CEO of SANE mental health charity)

• Identifying and creating ideal job opportunities

• Creating compelling applications (CVs and cover letters)

• Understanding job descriptions and what employers what

• Securing your long-term career path

• Overcoming common job-hunting challenges

• Interview skills and techniques

Making decisions is something that a lot of people struggle with these days. There have been many books written about the process, which range from highly academic to more personal and reflective. We even have new terms coined, such as the ‘Paradox of choice’ which eludes to the growing struggle to choose from seemingly inferior/superior options. But couldn’t we all do with a structure for making good decisions on an ongoing basis? How do we make decisions between options that seem almost equally positive and negative? How do we avoid risks and negative outcomes? This workshop will introduce you to strategies, techniques, and tools which will improve your decision-making and reduce the worry of negative outcomes.

Effective goal-setting can often be the difference between getting what you want and forgetting what you want! So often, we know what we want but we just don’t know how to get it. What that really means is that we don’t have a plan. Then, the result is that we forget about our real objectives and we just deal with what’s happening in the here and now, which is fine for some things, but not for goal-setting.

We want to be proactive rather than reactive - otherwise we’ll be left talking about with could’s, should’s and if only’s. Therefore, it’s crucial that we understand the power of effective planning and the importance of setting compelling goals. 

• Identifying and creating ideal job opportunities

• Creating compelling applications (CVs and cover letters)

• Understanding job descriptions and what employers what

• Securing your long-term career path

• Overcoming common job-hunting challenges

• Interview skills and techniques

Introduction and outline 

1. Coaching and mentoring - what’s the difference and when to use each?

2. Key skills, attributes and core beliefs of an effective coach/mentor.

3. Identifying the who, what, where, when and why of coaching/mentoring.

4. Logistics and administration in the coaching/mentoring relationship.

• Identifying and creating ideal job opportunities

• Creating compelling applications (CVs and cover letters)

• Understanding job descriptions and what employers what

• Securing your long-term career path

• Overcoming common job-hunting challenges

• Interview skills and techniques

• Identifying and creating ideal job opportunities

• Creating compelling applications (CVs and cover letters)

• Understanding job descriptions and what employers what

• Securing your long-term career path

• Overcoming common job-hunting challenges

• Interview skills and techniques

• Identifying and creating ideal job opportunities

• Creating compelling applications (CVs and cover letters)

• Understanding job descriptions and what employers what

• Securing your long-term career path

• Overcoming common job-hunting challenges

• Interview skills and techniques

• Identifying and creating ideal job opportunities

• Creating compelling applications (CVs and cover letters)

• Understanding job descriptions and what employers what

• Securing your long-term career path

• Overcoming common job-hunting challenges

• Interview skills and techniques

• Identifying and creating ideal job opportunities

• Creating compelling applications (CVs and cover letters)

• Understanding job descriptions and what employers what

• Securing your long-term career path

• Overcoming common job-hunting challenges

• Interview skills and techniques

A dynamic, engaging and all-encompasing workshop to guide you to effectively change jobs. Fail to plan, plan to fail. This two hour interactive workshop will be a game-changer for anyone who wants more from their career. 

A dynamic, engaging and all-encompasing workshop to guide you in doing satisfying work. Fail to plan, plan to fail. This half-day interactive workshop will be a game-changer for anyone who wants more from their career and personal life. Find out more below...