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Rule of Law

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Democracy

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Individual Liberty

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Team 2 activity

Pick a leader for your team. The selected leader should then listen to their teams suggestions and opinions and bring the final answers for results.

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Team 1 Activity

Pick a leader for your team. The selected leader should then listen to their teams suggestions and opinions and bring the final answers for results.

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Free Online Microsoft Training Courses | Alison

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Unlock the power of Microsoft products with our courses. Master essential skills, boost your productivity, and career growth.

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How to enhance your student experience digitally. Use university and college recommended AI technology to improve your writing and communication skills. Following the use of these platforms you can enhance your verbal communication in your progress reviews by explaining why and how you have used this technology. This will also showcase your continuous improvement, using new information and being open to using new tools and learning new skills.

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Recommended writing aids and proofreading. 

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Recommended writing aids and proofreading. 

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Free Grammar Checker | Grammarly

‎Gemini - chat to supercharge your ideas (google.com)

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Debt and money - Citizens Advice

Work out your budget - Citizens Advice

Starting a pension - Citizens Advice

Banking – security and fraud - Citizens Advice

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The skills promise is 15 skills that the college promises to deliver in order to make them a well-rounded, life-ready members of the community. 

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Aims and objectives : learning new skills, embracing new technologies. Researching in the right digital spaces for the required information. 

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Aims and objectives : learning new skills, embracing new technologies. Researching in the right digital spaces for the required information. 

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Skills for life:

You have made a pivotal decision for your life, upgrading, upskilling, improving your learning and creating more opportunities for yourselves and your families. You have put yourself in a position of going back into studying, but with an ambitious and forward-thinking mindset of continuous improvement.

Skills for careers:

You have chosen your path for what will be the next few years, leading into your adult life. You are choosing to undertake the responsibility of being an employee and a student. You are developing multifaceted skills, working around an employer and an education provider and you are asked to juggle life and career skills.

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create an image from an vehicle manufacturing

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Assess your own digital capabilities.

Watch the Video: Begin by watching the introductory video.

Now watch the video again , make two notes of why it is important to keep growing our digital capabilities.

Which of the digital capabilities mentioned in the video are required and desirable for your job role?

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Careers advice (bsdc.ac.uk)

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Careers advice - job profiles, information and resources | National Careers Service

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The National Careers Service can help you with your career, learning and training choices. Find out more about us and the different ways we can support you. This service is available to people who live in England.

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Individual Liberty

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Rule of Law

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The aim of the session is to understand smart targets and how to set yourself goals.

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Join a game of kahoot here. Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn - any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!

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You will complete a worksheet on setting SMART goals and reflect on a goal you achieved and increased your self confidence.

Please write at least three goals (personal, apprenticeship and work)

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What defines your self-Confidence...

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In groups, you will brainstorm and develop sustainability projects or products for the training centre. Your ideas will be presented to the class, with a class vote. The winning project will be presented to the leadership team in the centre.

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Climate change, sustainability, global warming...

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Aims

To enhance understanding of the concept of a global mindset and its relevance in the contemporary workplace.

To equip with practical tools and strategies to develop a global mindset.

To foster a culture of inclusivity, respect, and intercultural competence within the organization.

To inspire to become more effective and engaged global citizens.

Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

Define global mindset and articulate its importance in today's business environment.

Identify key components of a global mindset (e.g., cultural intelligence, cognitive flexibility, global awareness).

Analyse your own cultural biases and assumptions.

Develop strategies for effective communication and collaboration across cultures.

Apply a global perspective to problem-solving and decision-making.

Demonstrate increased intercultural sensitivity and empathy.

Appreciate the benefits of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

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Individual Liberty

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Respect and Tolerance

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Global Mindset: A Multifaceted Perspective

A global mindset is a dynamic and multifaceted construct that encompasses an individual's or organization's ability to perceive, understand, and respond effectively to the interconnectedness of the world. It is a complex interplay of cognitive, affective, and behavioural dimensions, shaped by experiences, knowledge, and attitudes.

While there is no universally accepted definition, the core of a global mindset typically involves:

Cognitive flexibility: The ability to adapt to diverse perspectives, cultures, and systems.

Cultural intelligence: Understanding and appreciating cultural differences while navigating complex intercultural interactions.

Global awareness: Recognizing the interconnectedness of global issues and trends.

Openness: A willingness to embrace new ideas, experiences, and people.

Strategic thinking: Applying a global perspective to problem-solving and decision-making.

Importantly, the manifestation of a global mindset can vary significantly across individuals and organizations. It can be applied to personal growth, business leadership, social impact, or any other domain where intercultural competence is valued.

Ultimately, the meaning of a global mindset is subjective and context-dependent. It evolves with individual and societal development, reflecting the changing dynamics of our interconnected world.

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Thanks Earth, You Rock!

Please see Sam if you would like to as I may have some ideas to share (Fixed / Growth / 3G Mindset)

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Steps and strategies to build resilience and help you bounce back

Taking these steps to stay on top of your wellbeing even when things are OK helps you to learn how to bounce back.

This means having the skills you need to cope with life's challenges and feel better in tougher times - it's also called building resilience.

This might sound difficult, but the chances are you already manage challenges well in many areas of your life, no matter how big or small. And there are lots of different things you can do and think about to help you learn to build resilience and bounce back.

These 6 tips will help get you started.

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Bouncing back from life's challenges and building resilience - Every Mind Matters

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See our 6 tips to help you learn how to "bounce back" - building the skills you need to cope with life's challenges and feel better in tougher times.

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The 5 Pillars of Resilience - The Wellbeing Project

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This insight is the foundation for effective planning so that employees can capitalise on their resilience strengths, and take action to develop skills.

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Rule of Law

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Individual Liberty

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What's in your toolbox?

Please see Sam if you would like to as I may have some ideas to share (SSL - Resilience - asking for support)

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When you are joining the job market, or maybe you are returning to searching after a long time with one company, LinkedIn is going to be your new best friend. This innovation in a professional social media platform is a great way to connect and expand your professional network from the comfort of your couch.

As a new job seeker, LinkedIn has several different ways to help assist you in your search. BeFunky has 5 tips for curating your profile. With these tips and your experience, you'll be armed with the skills to make your LinkedIn page make recruiters stop in their tracks and invite you to interview with their company.

Tip 1: Make Your Profile Look the Part

Although the famous saying goes "You should never judge a book by its cover," your LinkedIn profile is often the first thing that recruiters and your peers see. You should put your best foot forward when it comes to the appearance of your profile.

Touch Up Your Headshot

Making sure your photo is top-notch is one of the biggest tips that should be a no-brainer. BeFunky has some more tips on your headshot alone using the Photo Editor and Touch Up Tools, but here are some quick pointers: Make sure you are the only person in the photo and that your face takes up at least 60% of the frame, avoid dark photos or distracting backgrounds, put on an outfit that you want to wear to work, and most importantly . . . SMILE! Choosing an image that represents you will give potential employers the best sense of who you are before you even have an interview scheduled.

Add a Complementary Background Image

The background image is one of the most underutilized spaces on most LinkedIn profiles. The background image gives the opportunity to let recruiters know a little bit more about you while expressing individuality. BeFunky has some great tips on making your background image an extension of you using the Graphic Designer. Whether you settle on something more creative or choose to showcase a quote that is personal to you, you can create something stellar with BeFunky. LinkedIn's specific size recommendations for background images are 1584 x 396px.

Add an Inspired Headline, Not Just a Job Title

When it comes to your LinkedIn headline, it is tempting to jot down something fast like your desired job title. However, what catches the attention of potential employers is to select something more inspired for your headline. It is the first thing that recruiters may read about you, so skip the simple headline of "Recent Grad" and opt for something more exciting like "Library-aholic with extensive experience editing through internships and a recent journalism degree." You have 120 characters to use, so use them creatively!

Tip 2: Add Your Work Experience

Next on your profile to-do list is to start adding your work experience. This doesn't have to be every role you have ever held within your time at school or in the workforce. Focus on your most recent roles, and the roles where you had the most impact. Be sure to include where you had experience, what your role was within the organization, and the stretch of time you were in the role.

Add Detailed Descriptions

Within the description section of each role, be sure to emphasize experiences that you had that are relevant to your goals and achieved objectives in your organization. Illustrating your direct impact within each role is going to give recruiters a solid idea of what kind of contribution you can make within their organization.

Create Conversational Content

LinkedIn often feels like a digital version of your resume, and when it comes time to set up your experiences, there is a tendency to simply copy and paste the formal language of your resume over to your LinkedIn. You should focus on making the content you share and express within your experiences feel more conversational and organic. This is a chance to be excited about what you did and share it in a way that is engaging to read. Use this space to tell stories about your professional experiences.

Tip 3: Grow Your Connections

After you have set up your profile, your next task is to start growing your connections. Connect with former school peers, teachers, coworkers, and mentors alike. Find people who know you and your work ethic and make those connections. After you have started to have the connections roll in, you have two areas where you are able to boost your LinkedIn profile's success: skills endorsements, and recommendations.

Request Skill Endorsements

Add your skills to your profile, and request your connections endorse you for them. This gives your future prospects an idea of your skillset and how you have demonstrated them publicly when others endorse you for them. Essentially this functions as a peer review system for the skills you say you have and allows for a curated view of what others think you are good at.

Request Recommendations

The recommendations section of your LinkedIn profile is a great way for your peers to let others know what impact you have had on them directly. After you have made connections, you can go to the Recommendations section of your LinkedIn profile and click the plus sign and select Ask For a Recommendation. This will allow you to select who you want to write a recommendation from your connections list.

Tip 4: Curate Your Content Carefully

There are lots of options for ways to share content on your LinkedIn account. From resharing ideas of other creators to your own written recommendations there are a few suggestions we have for maintaining a professional presence.

Keep Sensitive Info Off Your Profile

In the digital age, there are scammers everywhere. Yes, even on professional networking sites. It is important to make sure that you keep identifying information off of your profile so that you have the best shot at evading the scammers or anyone who has poor intentions. This means keeping your address and phone number off your profile, keeping your full name to yourself, and making sure you don't share your social security number online.

Save Your Personal Life Posts for Another Platform

LinkedIn is not a place to share your images from a weekend of parties, it is not the place for sharing your religious or political views, or for commenting on others' posts with intimate details of your fun times in college. It is for sharing professional opinions and advice, it is for congratulating others on professional development and new jobs. You want to make sure the content you are expressing on LinkedIn are things that you would feel comfortable having recruiters at all your future jobs look at because that is what it is for.

Tip 5: Have an Active Presence

Lastly, be active on your profile! Make sure to check it weekly and start commenting and liking your connection's posts! If you need more inspiration on how to utilize your LinkedIn account, here are two examples of how to have an efficient and active presence:

Follow Companies That Align With Your Interests

Start searching for companies that are aligned with your ideas, interests, and experience. Maybe you are looking for a job from them, or you just like their ideology, give them a follow and be sure to interact with them from time to time.

Apply for Jobs

Start applying for jobs that you are interested in! Be sure to read the whole job post and complete the tasks they ask of you. Pay attention to the details, even on EasyApply jobs, they may have more steps for you to complete in order to be fully considered for the role. Follow the companies that you apply to and be sure to check for updates periodically.

Start Optimizing Your LinkedIn Profile!

Freshly equipped with these 5 tips and BeFunky's Photo Editor and Graphic Designer, you are ready to curate your profile to be the most clickable. Whether you are returning to the job search or just starting out, you are able to make the most of this professional networking site and find the best fit for your future with just a few easy tips.

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Here are some of the best tips to optimize your LinkedIn profile and set yourself up for success.

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What are the advantages of using LinkedIn?

How can you use LinkedIn to your advantage?

network with people: you can connect and follow people you’re interested in, whether that’s students, apprentices, or employees of a company you’d like to work for.

keep up with industry news: as well as connecting with people, you can follow people and topics you’re interested in. Following this kind of industry news might help when you’re submitting applications or networking with people.

Sign Up | LinkedIn

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Rule of Law

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Individual Liberty

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A two part session learning about new life and career skills. 

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Skills for Life

Skills for Careers

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This gives clear descriptions and characteristics for various leadership styles (e.g., transformational, transactional, autocratic, democratic).

These descriptions will help in identifying leaders during the game.

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Leadership Style Bingo (prizes to be won)

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Leadership Style Bingo (prizes to be won)

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Create bingo cards with different characteristics of leadership styles. As you describe a leadership style or give examples, students mark off the corresponding characteristics on their cards. The first to get a bingo wins, reinforcing their knowledge of different styles.

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Take the quiz and find out your leadership style.

This self-awareness activity fosters personal growth and adaptability.

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Do you believe that you can adapt your style? Harvard University professor Ron Heifetz and leadership experts David Rooke and William Torbert say that you can. So let's look in more depth at Lewin's leadership styles, their strengths and risks, and how you might become more skillful in using them.

Authoritarian, Autocratic Leadership

This approach is helpful when your team needs to follow a process "to the letter," to manage a significant risk. It's also effective when you need to be hands-on with people who miss deadlines, in departments where conflict is an issue, or in teams that rely on quick decisions being made.

But you need to be aware that relying on control and punishment to maintain standards will likely drive people away. Similarly, if you always demand that your team works at top speed, you can end up exhausting everyone.

Instead, you can show respect for team members by providing the rationale for your decisions. And they will more likely comply with your expectations if you take the trouble to explain Why the Rules Are There.

You can improve your ability to "lead from the front" by Planning for a Crisis, Thinking on Your Feet, and making good decisions under pressure. But be sure to balance these skills with an awareness of their potential negative impact on creativity, ideas gathering, motivation, and trust within the team.

Being too autocratic can also mean that you'll find it hard to stand back from the detail and take a wider, more strategic view.
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Democratic, Participative Leadership

With this approach, you set goals, guide team discussions, and make the final decision. But you also acknowledge that your people can have valuable insight into a problem or process, so you actively consult them. As a result, you'll likely gain creative input and fresh ideas that you wouldn't have come up with if you were working alone.

You might wonder how to manage differing opinions in the team, once you've invited participation in this way. Your goal is to build a culture in which people can have healthy debates with one another. So:

Be aware that processes could become dangerously slow if you involve your team members in every decision. You'll need to judge carefully whether you need to adopt a more autocratic approach, even if it's only briefly.

The Delegating, "Laissez Faire" Leader

"Laissez faire" is a French phrase adopted into English that means, "Let (people) do (as they choose)." It describes a policy of leaving situations to run their own course, without interfering.

By adopting this style of leadership, you empower your team to make decisions and to organize its own processes, with little or no guidance. The danger of this approach is that situations can collapse into chaos if your people have low motivation or poor skills. It can work, however, if they are experienced, knowledgeable, confident, creative, and driven, or if deadlines are flexible and processes are simple.

Be in no doubt, though, that as the leader you will still be held accountable for the outcome! So you might want to organize team decision making processes to support your people while you take a "hands off" approach. Just be sure to delegate the right task to the right person, as a mismatch could mean that the whole team fails.

Avoid becoming too remote, even with a high-performing, highly autonomous team. Change can occur at any time in business, so your organization's requirements for your team might shift after your initial brief. If this happens, stay in touch with your people, and communicate clearly and promptly. Remember, you can offer your support without becoming a micromanager!
Further Reading:

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What's Your Leadership Style? - Learn About the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Way You Like to Lead

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Use this quiz to discover your preferred leadership style, and to develop other ways to lead people successfully in different situations.

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What makes a good leader and how do different leadership styles impact team performance?

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Democracy

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Respect and Tolerance

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Win Or Lose, Do It Fairly!

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New Years Resolution Worksheet

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Ask learners to write down on a post-it note common problems they may have that they have not resolved. Once they have done that, go over them with the class and come up with ways to solve these problems. This will engage them with actively looking for problems and finding solutions for them. Complete a New Years Resolution worksheet that we can monitor throughout the year, based at solving problems they have come across.

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Individual Liberty

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New Year, New Opportunities!

Please see Sam if you want some support around including SMART in the Goal setting

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Rookie of the Year

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Trainers Choice

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Most Improved

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Team Player

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Outstanding Achievement

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Complete a worksheet on what went well and what could have went better in work, college and life. And awards ceremony, learners to vote for their fellow classmates for a variety of awards to encourage good behaviour and keeping on top of work.

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Democracy

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Reflection and Celebration

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Individually think about how you would like to be remembered or what you would like to be remembered for.

Think how this particular wish of yours can relate to one of the British Values and the Skills Promise.

Think what practical steps you could take and create a SMART target if you able, thinking about your personal barriers to you achieving this goal.

Create a 'Poster' that you can share with the group.

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Respect and Tolerance

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Learning from the past to build a better future.... one step at a time.