Personal Development, Employability & Wellbeing courses

Non-accredited courses to improve your employability and wellbeing.

Gain tools that will help you:

• Build confidence
• Set personal & professional goals
• Prepare for, find and grow in work
• Manage your life better & reduce stress

Location: York Gardens Library & Community Centre, 34 Lavender Road, London SW11 2UG

Online Booking Form at the bottom of the page.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Confidence Building

Learn what is self-confidence, recognise the importance and discover how to identify what boosts and undermines your own confidence and self-esteem.

• Identify what self confidence
• Recognise the importance of self confidence and self esteem
• Identify what boosts and what undermines confidence and self esteem
• Know how to reframe negative thoughts and self-beliefs
• Complete a Stop – Start-Keep personal action plan

Duration: 2 hour session for two weeks
When: 01-08 May 2019, 12.30-2.30pm

Understanding Employment, Business and Enterprise

Discover the skills and requirements needed for a business to succeed. Covering customer service, dealing with complaints and what enterprise means within a business.

• The skills and requirements need for a business to succeed
• Recognise enterprise within a business
• Understand customer service
• Learn 3 basic steps for dealing with customer complaints

Duration: 2 hour session for two weeks
When: 15-22 May 2019, 12.30-2.30pm

Personal Development

Learn why it is important to have a personal strategy for self-confidence and self-esteem and how to tailor it specifically to your own situation.

• Have a personal strategy for improving self confidence and self esteem
• Have a personal strategy for acting positively in difficult circumstances and increasing positive thinking
• To have identified a personal goal ad devised a step by step action plan to achieve it
• To have a personal plan of ideas for implementing Mindfulness into everyday life
• To create a defined and recorded approach to ongoing self care
• To determine a strategy for ongoing personal development

Duration: 2 hour session for six weeks
When: 05 June-10 July, 12.30-2.30pm

Working towards Goals

Learn how to identify personal goals, prepare an action plan and select the resources needed to achieve it.

• Describe own strengths and what they need to improve
• Identify at least one goal which is important for your development
• Prepare and action plan to meet their goal and identify resources needed
• Identify a way they are going to review their goal

Duration: 2 hour session for two weeks
When: 12-19 June 2019, 10am-12noon

Time Management Skills

This short course is about understanding the principles of time management. Covering outlining how you are spending your time and checking whether this is effective and in balance.

• Outline what is meant by time management
• Identify how time management skills can be used in daily life and in work
• Outline how you are spending your time and check to see whether this is effective and in balance
• Identify how time management can help reduce stress
• Outline a plan of own time to reduce stress

Duration: 2 hour session for one week
When: 17 July 2019, 12.30-2.30pm

EMPLOYABILITY

Employable Me

Learn how to identify your skills, explain relevant experience to an employer, develop a strategy to answer the ‘tell me about yourself’ question and improve your interview confidence. Plus, much more.

• Outline their experience and knowledge
• Identify transferable kills
• Find out what employers are looking for
• Identify personal developmental needs
• Practise how to sell yourself at interviews
• Develop a strategy to answer the ‘Tell me about yourself’ question
• Identify what to say at interviews with no experience
• Find out how to plan and be confident in interview
• Identify next steps

Duration: 2 hour session for two weeks
When: 01-08 May 2019, 10am-12noon

CV Workshop

First sessions will cover identifying skills, qualities, strengths and how to present your CV. Second session will focus on using CV assistant and writing cover letters.

• Identify skills and strengths
• Identify qualities
• Identify transferable skills
• Identify areas of development/training needs
• Learn how to present your CV

Duration: 2.5 hour session for two weeks
When: 15-22 May 2019, 10am-12noon