INSPIREIgniteNewSuccessPassion (and)Interest (into)Recreation (and) Employment
Facilitated byCourse Tutor: Giselle RuossCourse Assistant : Frances Saggers
Ice-breaker: What is your greatest achievement?
Hello, my name is Frances and my greatest achievement is…
What is your name? What is your greatest achievement?
Hello, my name is Giselle and my greatest achievement is…
INSPIRE: Four day course for people who need the INSPIRATION and self-belief to gain employment
What to expect from this course:
Day One: Building or Re-building self confidence
Day Two: Broadening Horizons
Day Three: Self – Image
Day Four: Soft Skills
Day 1: Some people say that other people INSPIRE them which builds their CONFIDENCE – What or who INSPIRE(s) you?
How confident are you?
Since leaving school or college what is your view of education and employment?
In either of these cases do you see it as an opportunity to try something new or has knocked your confidence and changed the way you feel about yourself?
Perhaps you are working and would love to change your hours or look for a new job but feel that you do not have the skills or the confidence to do so?
Broadening Horizons
How BIG is your world? Is it too quiet and you want to meet more people? Is it too busy and you would love some ‘you time’? Did you leave school with no qualifications and want to brush
up on existing skills or learn new ones? Would you like to travel or find a new interest?
Task 2: What does it take to INSPIRE you?
Ignite
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Passion (and)
Interest (into)
Recreation (and)
Employment
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S• What employment
opportunities do you believe are open to you and why?
• What employment opportunities do you believe are closed to you and why?
• Are you looking for your first job and don’t know what to expect?
• Or have you looked, or even been offered work but nerves prevent you from taking it?
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What responsibilities do you currently have?
• What responsibilities would you prefer not to have?
• How do you currently enjoy spending a spare time?
• How do you currently balance your responsibilities and your time?
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S• Have you decided to
change jobs due to health considerations?
• If so, would you consider working
• Part-time (less than 16 hours per week)
• Taking a job share
• Working from home
• Or starting your own business
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• What does education mean to you?
• What do you like to learn about?
• How do you like to learn?By talkingBy listening By readingBy writing or by doing things?
• What do you not like about learning?
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• Would you like to go on holiday but you can not afford to due to your current commitments or lifestyle choices?
• Have you worked out financially what you need to live per week or per month?
• How many hours per week would you like to work?
• Do you consider yourself better off working or not working? Why?
• What needs to change for you, in order for you to feel able to work?
TASK 3: What is your dream? How did your biggest achievement make you feel?
What can you do to feel like that again?
What would you like to do that you have not done yet?
How will you make it happen?
We will be looking at these ideas
in more detail in Day 2: Broadening
Horizons, so this task will be useful
help build on tomorrow as well!
Task 4: HOW DOES WORK MAKE YOU FEEL?
Talking Task: HAVE YOU HAD A JOB BEFORE?
Yes. What do you do?
Yes, Did you enjoy it?
Yes, but I want to do something different
Yes, I want to spend more time with the family
Yes, but I left.
Can you share with us why you made the decision that you made and do you think it was that right choice?
Talking Task:DO YOU HAVE A JOB AT THE MOMENT? NO No, but I really would like to work
No, not at the moment but I used to work
No, I need to go back to work as I can not afford to be without work
No I need to change my job because of health issues
What jobs have you done in the past?
What would you like to do?
INNER CONFIDENCE
The thing about inner confidence is that what you feel on the inside is stronger than the words you say.
So, if you think positively, you are more likely to achieve your goal and to succeed.
However, if you think that you are not good enough these feelings will hold you back and change your view of life
List your current commitments
Would you like to keep that
commitment or change it?
How? What would you like to do next?
Task 5:Perhaps you would love to work, but feel you are unable to because you have too many commitments?
Task 6:
I don’t need a job, I am happy as I am
I have nothing to offer a job, they wouldn’t employ me anyway
I have no qualifications or experience
It’s been so long since I’ve worked, I don’t know where to start!
What you say - What you feel -
LOOKING GOOD, FEELING GREAT!
IS LIFE AN ADVENTURE OR A STRUGGLE?
Attitude to life – Is your glass of life half full or half empty?
Task 7: WHAT IS WORK?
Work can be:Full-time (16 or more hours per week)Part-time (less than 16 hours per week)Shift workHourly paidVoluntary work
Look at these scenarios. Can you work out the type of work each one is describing?
EVEN A HOBBY OR INTEREST CAN TURN INTO WORK- WHAT DO YOU DO THAT YOU COULD MAKE
MONEY FROM?
WHAT IS YOUR ATTITUDE TO WORK?
One reason is to earn more money! But there are other reasons to work.
Maybe to afford a holiday
Or buy some thing new that you need to save up for
To keep you active
Self confidence
Something else?
FORMAL EDUCATION VS LIFE EXPERINCE
In your view, what is more important formal education or life experience?
When is formal education important?
In what situations do you think life experience is important?
Do you need a mixture of formal education and life experience to succeed in life?
Or is life experience an education anyway?
GO FOR IT!
All of you here today, have an ambitions whatever your ambitions they are all achievable!
Some of you will consider going into employment.
Some of you will consider further education.
Some of you might plan a holiday.
Some of you will make different choices in life.
GO FOR IT ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL!