Module 5 - Self Directed Learning

Stuck for what to do on your self directed day? This agenda is offered as a guide for how to plan and structure your time.

Links to module materials for facilitated day

Think about how you can help others with their positioning/career development, based on what you’ve taken from this programme. Reach out and offer support.

Reflect on your experience as a Peer Group over the past year and discuss whether/how you want to stay in touch going forward.

What has been your biggest success on your journey so far with Thresholds? What would you like to share with others who are thinking of joining or who are on the course. Write us a blog to share!

Reflect on your journey with your mentor. What worked? What could have been better? What is your most valued takeaway from your relationship? Take time to give the feedback to your mentor.

Invite three people for a coffee. Who inspires you? Who is in a job you want? In an organisation you love? Reach out and offer them a coffee - either in real life or virtually.

Make a list of who you would like to approach for mentoring and what support you need. Reach out to somebody who can become your mentor and help you achieve your next goal.

Helen McCarthy sets out how and why women's networks are changing the workplace

Remember at your Module 1? When you were wondering what on earth you'd signed up to?! And how helpful the Grad Panel was? Support others by joining a grad panel - we send regular emails with info.

Being resilient is one of the best things we can practice in our daily lives. However, let’s be real, it’s also one of the hardest things to actually practice.

Our inner voices can serve as our greatest cheerleaders. In an engaging talk exclusively for Thresholds, guest speaker Gemma Brown provides practical suggestions on how to access a kinder, more motivating inner voice and overcome self-doubt.

Some exercises to help cope with change

A short film with practical tips and insight from experts and working men and women across the generations about how they build their energy and resilience

Listen to author and psychologist John Nicolson explore resilience in depth drawing on years of research and practice.

In this engaging and informative talk, Executive Coach & trainer Kirstin Goodwin shares her personal journey with imposter syndrome and how she regained her confidence.

CW: Death of a child

Dr Lucy Hone is a leading expert on resilience. In this video she shares 3 strategies for building resilience that were tested by her own personal circumstances.

Many of us rely on feedback to help us learn, develop and to know if we’re doing a good job. However, the way we seek feedback and relate to it is really important and is not always useful.

Do not assume doing your job well is enough to get noticed. You need to give folk a little nudge, and here’s how:

Now you are coming to the end of your programme would you like to support somebody on their Crossing Thresholds Journey?

How are you going to raise your profile? To who? How? Complete the raising your profile worksheet from Module 5. Which action will you start with? Go for it.

Tips from Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser from Arbuthnot Banking Group on how to be successful. What do you want to work on?

The workplace is often presented as a meritocracy, where you can succeed by putting your head down and working hard. Wall Street veteran Carla Harris learned early in her career that this a myth.

Complete your revised Career Plan and Milestones worksheet. Share it with your peer group and mentor for feedback. Break your plan down in to a 12 month action plan and take your first step!