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SKILLS WORKSHOPS ARE THE SECOND MAIN ELEMENT

 

Once you have completed your ‘Exploring My Leadership’ module, you will need to either:

 

  • Attend a Live Trainer session

OR

  • Complete a Self-Guided workshop (on GCU Learn)

 

  • Or both!

 

WHAT ARE THE WORKSHOP OPTIONS?

Our Skills Workshops go deeper into three key Leadership Skills, with four workshops being offered under each one. They cover a particular competency, skill or set of skills in more detail. How you can apply these in practice and support your future development. Your strengths and areas for development.

 

  • All 12 workshops are delivered as Live Trainer sessions. BOOK HERE
  • 7 of the 12 workshops can be completed through Self-Guided options (on GCU Learn)

 

Skills Workshops highlighted in yellow have Self-Guided workshop options:

 

 

Leadership Skill     

SELF MANAGEMENT

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

   INNOVATION & CREATIVITY   

Workshops

Managing Self

Connecting with Empathy

Strategic Thinking

Building Resilience

Communicating with Impact 

Solving Problems with Curiosity

Time Management

Working Collaboratively

Social Innovation

   Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset  

Leading Effectively

Systems Thinking

 

Each workshop covers different ‘competencies’. If you are interested in a specific one, you can select a workshop based on these:

 

  • Integrity
  • Empathy
  • Leading
  • Adaptability
  • Resilience
  • Focusing
  • Initiative
  • Creativity
  • Communication
  • Curiosity
  • Collaboration
  • Sense Making
  • Critical Thinking

 

See below for an outline of each Skills Workshop and their competencies:

MANAGING SELF

Integrity, Empathy, Leading

 

Develop your understanding of yourself, your emotions and your values - and give you some tools and techniques for working with them productively. 

 

CONNECTING WITH EMPATHY

Empathy, Leading, Curiosity

 

Learn skills and tools for developing empathy skills to be able to better to listen, connect, understand, and work with others.   

 

STRATEGIC THINKING

Critical Thinking, Sense Making

 

Explore what is meant by strategic thinking and identify how you can apply strategic thinking in your own context; learn practical planning and analysis tools, and identify ways to measure success.

 

LEADING EFECTIVELY

Leading, Integrity, Collaboration, Communication

 

Learn theories, tools, and techniques to enable you to develop your understanding of and ability to apply these key leadership skills.  

 

SOCIAL INNOVATION

Creativity, Collaboration, Adaptability, Critical Thinking

 

Explore the knowledge, skills and tools of social innovation to develop your ability to work collaboratively to develop and proposed solutions to become an effective change maker in your local community. 

 

DEVELOPING AN ENTREPRENURIEL MINDSET

Initiative, Adaptability, Creativity

 

Develop your entrepreneurial mind set by exploring how to take initiative in a positive way, overcome barriers, and will build your competence in being proactive and responsive to opportunities.

 

TIME MANAGEMENT

Focusing

 

Learn to work more effectively and efficiently by exploring practical tools and techniques to help manage your time to overcome procrastination, help prioritise, and set achievable goals.  

 

WORKING COLLABORATIVELY

Collaboration, Leading, Initiative, Empathy

 

Learn theory’s tools and techniques to develop your ability to effectively work together with others towards shared goals, and have the opportunity to apply key team working skills to complete a collaborative project.  

 

SOLVING PROBLEMS WITH CURIOSITY

Curiosity, Collaboration, Creativity, Sense Making

 

Use skills such as observation, questioning, and problem recognition to understand, break down and find the root cause of a problem and use collaboration, curiosity and creative thinking to identify alternative solutions.  

 

BUILDING RESLIENCE

Adaptability, Resilience

 

Develop your ability to respond positively and constructively to constantly evolving challenges and complexity through learning tools and techniques to help build resilience and respond to change. 

 

SYSTEMS THINKING

Sense Making, Curiosity, Critical Thinking

 

Build a deeper understanding of how things influence one another as part of a whole, and provide practical tools and approaches to explore the linkages, relationships, interactions and behaviours among the elements that characterise a system.

 

COMMUNICATING WITH IMPACT

Communication

 

Develop your understanding of effective communication, what this means in practice, and use storytelling to relate information and bring knowledge sharing to life.  

 

 

For more information about the Student Leaders Programme contact:  studentleaders@GCUstudents.co.uk


The Student Leaders Programme was developed in partnership with the Social Enterprise Academy (Scotland).

  

 

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This membership is free for current GCU students.

 

      

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