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EDI workshop 2

Driving your Career Development

This workshop is designed to encourage reflection on yourself, your skills, your career aspirations, and the responsibility to manage your ongoing career development.

Following any leadership programme, it is beneficial to carve out time to reflect on personal career progress and ambitions and the impact of the programme on personal and career development aims. The Career Development workshop will support delegates in building a focus on their own career progression, building on the benefits gained from participation in the Aurora for both the individual and their institution. 

In this interactive session, you will work through a series of exercises designed to encourage reflection on yourself, your skills, your career aspirations, and the responsibility to manage your career development ongoing.  The content has at its heart the lens of career development for women in HE and discussion specific to this topic is built into the session throughout. 

This module is delivered as one full-day online workshop or two half-day online workshops.

Event Information

Date: 4 June and 18 June, 10:00-12:30
Location: Virtual

Book your place

To further empower your leadership journey, we're thrilled to present you with an exclusive opportunity. For a limited period, we're offering a 50% discount on all Alumnae workshop registrations.

If you're arranging your booking through your Aurora Champion, they'll facilitate this offer for you. Alternatively, if you’d prefer to self-fund, you can take advantage of this discount, by using the code: AlumnaeSelfFund50

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Who is delivering the course?

Jo Cutler

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Jo Cutler is an experienced Organisational Development specialist with a solid background in talent and leadership development. She is an EMCC accredited coach and award-winning leadership development specialist focused on enabling leaders, teams and individuals to be the best that they can be. Jo has an M.Ed. and a PGDip in HR Management and brings a wide range of skills and experience, both in the higher education sector and beyond.
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Learning outcomes

Through participation in this workshop you will: 

  • Appreciate modern career patterns and the requirement for a proactive and realistic approach to career planning  
  • Understand the importance of building personal accountability for career management, and the requirement for focus on both mindset and action  
  • Reflect on the range of tools and support available to enrich your career development and develop deeper self-awareness (e.g., motivations, identity, values, talents, etc.)  
  • Review competency frameworks in HE (and beyond) as a practical basis for examining your own strengths in a relevant way  
  • Have a process for formulating and communicating your skills, competencies and career achievements  
  • Recognise that your career development is a vital part of your ongoing Professional Development Plan 

Participants will be invited to engage in pre-work reflection for this workshop – to assess the impact of the Aurora and review key aspects of their own career development and ambitions. The workshop is supported by a comprehensive workbook with exercises for discussion and reflection – both during the session and afterwards. 

 

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