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Technical apprenticeships are invaluable pathways for individuals to kickstart their careers in fields like engineering, IT, construction, and beyond. While the focus of these apprenticeships typically revolves around technical skills, there’s an equally crucial aspect that often gets overlooked: personal development.
In this blog, we’ll explore why personal development is essential for every technical apprentice and how it can unlock their full potential.
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Taking ownership of one’s development is crucial for personal and professional growth. Here are some ways employees can take ownership of their development: Continue reading “How can employees take ownership of their development?”
Presentation and communication skills play a critical role in the success of companies in the UK. Here’s a more detailed exploration of these skills and their significance within the corporate setting:
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Personal development training within UK companies has become an integral part of fostering a motivated and skilled workforce. Here are some key trends in personal development training in UK companies right now:
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According to the CIPD mental health issues can affect one in four people at some point in their lives and have a significant impact on employee wellbeing. Continue reading “Mental Health Awareness Training”
Campaign for Learning’s ‘Learning at Work Week’ is another fantastic opportunity for employers and their staff to review and invigorate their learning and development efforts.
This year’s theme ‘Made for Learning’ focusses on how as humans we are constantly learning and adjusting our understanding and behaviours accordingly. Certainly, this last year has never been such a fine example of us all having to adapt and evolve as we navigated the COVID- 19 pandemic. But how can we take our human capacity to learn and turn it into something more purposeful for active lifelong learning?
Making habits stick
Our routines have been ever changing this last year so how do you schedule time and make habits stick for consistent, active learning?
15 minutes each day – make it achievable
Committing to 15 minutes of learning each day amounts to over 90 hours of learning a year. That’s more than 2 average working weeks and over 10 years it’s almost half a year! Imagine what you could achieve, learn and become in that time.
Use your commute – find a pocket of time
Bite-size bursts of learning are short enough to do during a commute or first thing before checking emails. Considering that many employees are now home working the time that would have been used for their commute could be used for learning, helping to boost motivation for their day ahead.
Appreciate the benefits – self-improvement and wellbeing
Schedule and allow this time for you and recognising the importance it has on self-improvement. Learning directly contributes to self-value and enriches wellbeing as well as expending your knowledge.
Being ready to learn
So you’ve found your pocket of time but what could you do, whether it’s informal or formal learning here’s a short list of reminder ideas:
With just 15 minutes a day it doesn’t appear much at first however over time the accumulative effect on your knowledge, skills and behaviour will be significant. The important thing to remember is that learning can take place anytime, anywhere and there are so many different ways to learn especially with the increase of online learning over the last year – choose what works for you to make habits stick and become lifelong learners.
The Power of 10 is a tool to schedule measurable and manageable activities into your day to support mental health and wellbeing, which in turn promotes increased productivity.
The power of 10 began from realising the importance of using any spare moment possible to benefit my wellbeing during lockdown and maintain the best balance between working, parenting, housework and “me time”. I really struggled with this juggling everything last year and started to do some research to assist. I found so many articles and suggestions and was amazed how many activities seemed to be linked to the number 10, from top 10 songs to improve your mood to 10-minute HiiT sessions. So maybe this could be used as a “magic” number to guide my self-help.
The more I thought about this it made sense and I could make this work to my advantage, if nothing else as a starting point I could manage 10 minutes out of my day.
For the first week I used 10 minutes as a framework but doing different activities each day. Walking for 10minutes, 10 minutes reading, 10-minute phone call to a friend etc. I was amazed how much better I started to feel.
From here the idea of using 10 as a quantifiable base expanded rapidly, firstly I tried 10,000 steps in a day then 10 pages of a book, and also writing down 10 things that were really bothering me and how to deal with them or to actually let go of the negative feeling.
I have also now started to use the Pomodoro technique which is a 6-step time management tool alongside the “power of 10 activities” to increase my productivity without increasing my stress levels. By scheduling my day even further into task time slots and using the associated breaks mindfully.
After a month of using both techniques I felt like back to myself and I have used the “power of 10” daily ever since. Anyone can use it and it can mean what suits them on any given day from physical activity to emotional outlet. It is about creating “tasks” to schedule into your day to benefit yourself.
You can even share your “power of 10” ideas with your colleagues and friends to support them too.
Vicky Seel – Operations Manager
10 tips for wellbeing to help see you through the challenging winter months…
As we all face the ongoing challenges resulting from the pandemic and the transitions it brings as lockdown eases, we thought that sharing our ten tips for wellbeing may be useful this mental health awareness week:
We are all familiar with all on this list for sure but our challenge to you (and ourselves) is to create your own wellbeing checklist and take the time to review what’s working/needs more attention each week. Why not start it off this mental health awareness week?
Think oxygen mask first!
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