About Workshop
Fresh graduates all around the world face the challenges of attaining the skills and competencies that would turn them into efficient workforce in real workplaces. Employers have limited time to guide new employees and often inadequate organizational training opportunities and facilities to bridge the gap between the employees’ actual and desired levels of performance. The Professional Boot Camp to be held on SUN-MON-TUE-WED-THU in 2 weeks has been designed to keep this reality in mind, where we will introduce new graduates or soon to be graduating students to two weeks, 80 hours of intensive grooming that will help them to experiences real life challenges and prepare them to meet those challenges up front.
How participants will benefit after the course
1. Plan their careers based on their education, skills and competencies
2. Develop effective written, oral and non-verbal communication skills
3. Produce simple business letters and documents
4. Present ideas and opinions in business environment using different methods and platforms
5. Communicate effectively using emails and the internet
6. Act confidently and ethically in actual work places
Workshop topics to be covered:
DAY 01
Course Orientation and Overview of Career Planning
Introduction and orientation: Icebreaking, Explanation of course objectives and agreement on learning expectation(Exercise)
Overview of Career planning
Skill inventory exercise
Industry and job market: Trends and Skills Required
Emerging Employment Industries
Employer’s expectations
Employee expectations
Dreams and reality: Bridging the gap
DAY 02
Effective Business Communication
Communication basics
The communication process
Barriers to effective communication
Group exercise
Effective non-verbal communication
Non-verbal communication-different types and elements
The power of body language
Interpersonal communication dynamics
Role play exercise
DAY 3
Active listening
What is active listening
The need for active listening
Developing active listening skills
Active listening in meetings
Review exercise (meeting simulation)
Effective verbal communication
The art of public speaking
Tips and strategies for generating and recollecting ideas
Telephone etiquette
Pair game
DAY 4
Effective Presentation Skills
Presentation needs-why to present and to whom?
The best order for creating your presentation
Different presentation styles – avoiding death by PowerPoint
Notes, handouts and visual aids – what works, what doesn’t
Effective power point presentations
Creating great powerpoint presetations with exercise
When and how to use graphics – pictures, screen shots, diagrams, flow charts, tables, graphs, etc.
How to present numerical data
Things to check when including illustrations
DAY 5
English Grammar Fundamentals
Grammar basics
Sentence structure and variety
Basic punctuation
Grammar exercises
English Grammar Fundamentals
Developing coherent thoughts
Sentence combining skills
Paragraph development
Writing exercises
DAY 6
Business writing basics
Different types of business writing
Purpose of business documents
Analysing the audience
Writing to express not impress!
How to write in terms your reader will relate to
How to use variety in your writing without confusing your reader
Business writing basics
Using techniques to sequence and structure your material
Breaking the job down into manageable chunks
Create consistent professional layouts
Common errors in formatting
DAY 7
Business writing basics
Writing a memo
Writing meeting minutes
Exercises
Business writing basics
Basics of report writing
Writing exercise-producing business documents relevant to purpose
DAY 8
Good work practices
Work ethics
Understanding the job and its requirements
Office behaviour-The good, the bad and the ugly
Making a good impression at work
Good work practices
Working in a team
Giving and receiving feedback with dignity
10 ways to be happy at work
DAY 9
Good work practices
The basics of time management
Effective use of time management tools
Time Management calendar planning exercise
Netiquette at work
Email etiquette
Using e-mail effectively.
Write effective e-mail messages
The differences between writing online and traditional paper-based writing.
How to manage e-mail volume
DAY 10
Professional Development plan
Identifying strengths and weaknesses
Planning exercise
Class exercise: Prepare a presentation on your Professional Development plans (PDP) based on the strengths and weaknesses identified in the exercise
PDP presentations and a way forward
Learners presentation on respective professional development plan(PDP)
Peer review and facilitator’s feedback Discussion on commonly identified strengths and weaknesses
Brainstorming and discussion on realising PDP and a way forward
In addition to this 10-day-program, students will go through one day long extra session that includes:
Power Use of MS Office Tools
How MS Word helps you come up with strong write up: tools & techniques
Formatting: Paragraph and Tables
Letters and Mailings: Mail Merge, Envelopes and Labels
Generating Table of Contents of a Report Automatically
How MS Excel helps you in analyzing data for deciding business artifacts
How to work with Excel Formula
Basic Functions
Default Chart
Excel Formatting and Presentations etc.
And special session:
RESUME WRITING & JOB INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES
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