Events
Developing Potential Workshop - Tuesday 6 June 2006
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Developing Potential Workshop - Tuesday 6 June 2006
1. The Need
As part of a Women in Local Councils events programme for 2006, a “Developing Potential” workshop to help women with career planning took place at Omagh District Council which was facilitated by Anne McMurray.
Below are just a few of the many positive comments from participants who attended the workshop.
“Excellent, thought provoking. Presenter very helpful, easy to talk to and gave good advice. Glad I came!”
“Course has provided a good starting point to reviewing my career and starting to look at what I need to do to achieve my potential”
"A well delivered and enjoyable course, which provided me with the opportunity to assess my career aspirations and encouraged me to start thinking about what I need to do to achieve them."
2. Aims and Objectives
The aim is to enable female participants to assess their personal strengths, values and life/career aspirations; set goals and develop an action plan to achieve this.
The objectives for the event are that participants will
- develop an accurate self-assessment of strengths, experience, values, aspirations as a starting point.
- create a personal vision of the future in the short, medium and longer term.
- set goals and develop action plan to achieve these including personal development.
- understand how to create a CV and undertake a job search.
The main components of the workshop are below;
a) Who am I? – a self-assessment of strengths, weaknesses, values and current situation. Materials will be developed to support this. This session will be affirming, realistic and challenging to self-limiting beliefs.
Participants will complete a simple self-assessment Myers Briggs report to help them appreciate their personal style and natural aptitudes.
b) What I want? - developing a picture of “how I would like things to be in the future” incorporating work and lifestyle choices, which is compelling and attractive to the individual woman, reflecting her aspirations.
c) Making it Happen - shaping goals and actions: translating ideas into workable achievable plans which are grounded in reality but creatively crafted.
d) Preparing a Curriculum Vitae as an individual credibility statement which can be used in future as a source reference for job applications and interview preparation, on which some guidance will be provided
Each participant will receive a workbook which will contain pro-formas and guidance for each of the activities. Participants will also receive further literature and references for follow up.
