Universities

How to enhance your personal and professional programs for your students

The challenges associated with providing personal and professional development programs

Is creating a world class personal and professional development program for your students high on your agenda?

Do you and your team have so much to do that you just don’t have the time to create the program that you desire?

Do you have the support but not the people to make a world class personal and professional program happen?

These challenges are common for the people who dedicate themselves to supporting students to be the best that they can be. You are aware that many students are passing through your institution and are not being provided with access to specialised programs to enhance their employability.

Why? You and your team simply don’t have the resources to develop and facilitate the programs. You do what you can and you make as much information as possible available online. However that information is not always tailored to your students needs and they usually only discover it when they are just about to graduate.

The problem

For many students graduation is far too late in their journey to discover the many practical activities that they could have been doing while they were studying to significantly enhance their career prospects. You and your institution aren’t in the business of creating graduates who are less employable than they should be. The reality is that this scenario occurs far too often. Imagine the impact on your institution’s reputation and global competitive advantage if your students were being recognised for their high standards of employability.

Implications

Modern technology ensures that all students within your institution can access the information that they need to know when they need to know it. Through online programs and on-site workshops the wide variety of needs of your students can be addressed. Many students will not require any more assistance than what is available online. Other students will require more support through attending workshops. Other students again will require individual support through your institution’s counselling services.

How to solve your problem

You can enhance your existing system to include tailored programs for ‘the masses’ through introducing short online presentations and webinars for your students, then provide workshops in the form of scholarships as a reward for students who contribute to the university and broader community.

Those students who require one on one counselling will still be able to receive those services through your current service offering. The main point if differentiation will be that students will be able to see the relationship between your personal and professional development programs and what they can be doing while at university to leverage their employability.

How we can help you - Online and workshop based programs to enhance the employability of your students

The Directors of Organisations That Matter have been designing and facilitating student development and personal and professional development programs since 1995. We have the experience and capacity to enhance your existing offering by:

Creating an Online Learning Program for your students that will be tailored to your student’s needs, focussing on enhancing their employability. All the headaches for you are removed as we will create the content and provide access for your students to that content via direct links from your website.
Creating an on-site scholarship based learning program for those students who you wish to reward for their service to the university and/or the broader community. We will remove your headaches by creating the content for the programs and establishing a booking system for the students. All you need to do is provide the venues for the workshops to be conducted.
Providing Professional Development programs for your student services staff members to accelerate your understanding of the Student Development Profession.
What Really Matters for undergraduate and post-graduate students
Strategic Advice and Consulting
Coaching and Mentoring
Review, Assessment and Facilitation
Providing Keynote Speeches

What’s in the programs?

The programs individually address the 10 key employability skills:

Leadership
Communication
Teamwork
Problem solving
Time management
Systems Thinking
Service excellence
Project Management
Initiative and innovation
Life-long learning

The Online Learning Program includes:

10 minute Slidecast (presentation with audio) overview of employability skills
10 minute Slidecast presentation overview of each of the 10 individual employability skills
50 minute live webinar on each of the 10 individual employability skills that can host up to 1,000 participants
50 minute webinar recording (to be accessed and played back at any time)

...and ensures that you:

Have a full and comprehensive development program that is available for ALL your students
Have more time to focus on promoting your program
Can do more with less
Can make an even bigger difference to your students

The Scholarship Workshop Program

The Scholarship workshop program is designed from your specific selection of workshops. We can provide strategic advice and work with you to identify and select the right program for your students. Workshops can be selected from:

1 hour presentations
3 hour interactive workshops
One day workshops
Two day boot camps

...and ensures that you:

Achieve high attendance to registration ratios
Can provide a tangible reward to students who are pro-active in the university and/or broader community
Help pro-active students to maintain their high academic performance while comprehensively developing themselves
Can create even more stars for your university

Combination Online Learning Program and The Scholarship Workshop Program

Select what you require from the Online Learning Program and match it with a tailored Scholarship Workshop Program. With our strategic advice we can help you to create a program that is right for your institution and budget.

Yes, there's more!

If you really want to create a student (or personal and professional) development program that is truly world class, why not enquire about any one of the following programs/services:

Student Development Programs
Student Affairs Staff Development Programs
Desired Futures for Students
What Really Matters For Students
Strategic Advice and Consulting
Coaching and Mentoring
Review, Assessment and Facilitation
Keynotes

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