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The Highly Effective Graduate

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- The Highly Effective Graduate -

Course Overview

For first-year graduates starting out in their new careers, the initial months and first year at work can be exhilarating, daunting and challenging. While some companies provide induction and orientation, that alone often isn’t enough to give graduates the real-life, practical “heads-up” they need to hit the ground running and be confident in their new roles and exceed their manager’s and colleague’s expectations.

With so much being expected of graduates, a course like The Highly Effective Graduate is the perfect addition to an organisation’s induction. Over two days, graduates learn how to develop the work skills and people skills they need to excel and build upon their academic qualifications. Graduates will learn what your organisation, manager, colleagues and customers expect from you. How to manage your time and priorities to get things done. Developing your emotional intelligence to work effectively with others. How to communicate confidently and add value to your new role..

Key Learning Outcomes

  • Examining the challenges of moving from the mindset and working style of a graduate to a new employee
  • What your organisation expects from you
  • What your line manager expects from you and how to meet their expectations
  • What your team members expect from you
  • About organisation systems and culture
  • How will your performance be judged?
  • How to be personally effective by managing your time, priorities and achieving results
  • How to incorporate larger tasks or mini-projects into your day and week
  • Managing email and your inbox
  • How to participate and contribute in meetings
  • Developing your communication skills
  • Understanding yourself and others by learning about your working and communication styles
  • What is emotional intelligence, why do you need it and how to develop it to get ahead at work and to enhance your career
  • Managing stress, advancing your career and enjoying work-life balance

Training Outline

Morning Session

Module 1. How to Succeed in Your 1st Year

  • How university life differs from your career
  • The first 90 days and how to hit the ground running
  • What your organisation expects of you
  • The critical success factors for your first year
  • Learning your new organisation’s systems
  • Embedding yourself in your organisation’s culture
  • Understanding the expectations of your manager.

Module 2. Developing Your Personal Effectiveness

  • Getting organised and how to plan your work and work your plan
  • Creating a prioritising system for getting things done
  • Defining your daily, weekly and monthly tasks and objectives using TRIAGE
  • Efficiency versus effectiveness
  • How to map out an effective workday
  • Why it isn’t the number of hours that you work
  • It’s the quality of the work you put into the hours
  • How to get organised
  • Creating desk and systems processes and organisation
Afternoon Session
Module 3. Enhancing Your Emotional Intelligence
  • What is emotional intelligence and why do you need it as a graduate
  • Managing the 4 components of your EQ
  • Identify your personal strengths and weaknesses
  • How to become a stronger communicator by using your emotional intelligence
  • The secrets of building a stronger rapport with your clients and peers
Module 4. Work Smarts for Getting Ahead at Work
  • How to read, sort, respond and master email
  • How to participate or facilitate successful meetings
  • How to sell your ideas to others
  • Work smarts for smart graduates

Training Options

We realise every client is different. You may have only half a dozen people to train, or perhaps you’re running a conference and want a guest speaker or a trainer to undertake a high impact, short breakout session.

Whatever you have in mind, we want to help you achieve your training goals. Let’s start a conversation and find out what’s happening at your place and what you’re wanting your people to be able to do differently as a result training. If you’re on a tight budget we get that as well. Rest assured, we are good listeners and we are here to help you achieve your outcomes.

  • 1-day Training (7 hours)
  • Half-Day Express (3 hours)
  • Lunch & Learn (60 minutes)
  • Online Training (Self-paced)
  • One-on-One (Zoom) Coaching