Courses featured in the programme:

• Introduction to key skills and attributes

  Overview

  Core activities: 30 minutes
  Additional activities: 1 hour

   

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  Syllabus

  • What do employers want to see from you?
  • What does it mean to be enterprising?
  • Developing your enterprise skills and attributes
  • The STAR technique
  • Application: Assessing your current enterprise skills and attributes
• Creative and innovative thinking

  Overview

  Core activities: 1 hour
  Additional activities: 2 hours

   

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  Syllabus

  • Defining creative and innovative thinking
  • Innovating from failures
  • Why do employers value creative and innovative thinking?
  • Thinking creatively and innovatively
  • Creativity in real life and ‘what if’ thinking
  • Application: Creative thinking in real-life situations
  • Application: Identifying how you can develop today
• Leadership skills

  Overview

  Core activities: 1 hour
  Additional activities: 2 hours

   

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  Syllabus

  • What makes an effective leader?
  • Ethical leadership
  • Developing your leadership style
  • Demonstrating your leadership style/s to employers
  • Application: Becoming a more effective leader
  • Application: Difficult situations
• Commercial awareness

  Overview

  Core activities: 1 hour
  Additional activities: 2 hours

   

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  Syllabus

  • What is commercial awareness?
  • Commercial awareness – now and in the future
  • Developing your commercial awareness
  • Using commercial awareness to make good decisions
  • Using the STAR technique
  • Application: Self assessment checklist
  • Application: Identifying opportunities to show commercial awareness in job applications and interviews
• Problem-solving and decision-making

  Overview

  Core activities: 1 hour
  Additional activities: 2 hours

   

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  Syllabus

  • Decisions create futures
  • Mindset: as important as skillset
  • Challenges
  • Bringing structure to problem solving and decision making
  • Different ways enterprising minds think and evaluate
  • Employers’ perspectives and requirements
  • Application: Putting yourself in the employer’s chair
  • Application: Self-evaluation and self-development
• Communication and networking

  Overview

  Core activities: 1 hour
  Additional activities: 2 hours

   

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  Syllabus

  • Communication in context: the art of business communication
  • Overcoming your nerves and active listening
  • Communication and your career
  • Networking 101
  • Your personal networks
  • Networking in cyberspace
  • The information interview
  • Application: Reflecting on your communication skills and attributes
  • Application: Comparing social media brands
• Negotiation skills

  Overview

  Core activities: 1 hour 
  Additional activities: 2 hours

   

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  Syllabus

  • Myth-busting negotiating
  • Negotiating a win-win result
  • Strategies for a smooth negotiation
  • Key characteristics of a successful negotiation
  • Application: Showing your negotiation skills and attributes in a job interview
  • Application: Identifying negotiation situations in your own life
• Effective planning

  Overview

  Core activities: 1 hour 
  Additional activities: 2 hours

   

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  Syllabus

  • Planning in different contexts
  • Is your personal career planning effective?
  • Your natural approaches to life and planning
  • Effective and productive planning
  • Time management
  • Employers’ requirements and recruitment practices
  • Application: Factors that support success in planning more complex projects
  • Application: Self assessment