Sessions to support early career
What we do: Graduates and early career
Building successful and sustainable careers
Graduates stepping into the workforce today are entering a very different work environment from their predecessors.
Drawing from our extensive experience and research on supporting early career professionals, we help your grads focus on developing critical skills in early career, such as:
- Reducing risk of burnout
- Managing feedback
- Building psychological flexibility
- Adjusting to workplace expectations
- Bouncing back from setbacks
- How to foster connection
and more.
Graduate/Early Career Sessions
We’re proud to offer a series of transition skills sessions to support early career workers to thrive. All of these sessions are 1.5 hours, but can be extended to two hours to allow for more discussion.
Every organisation has a unique set of needs. Our graduate sessions are designed to deliver results as standalone sessions to supplement your offering, or as a package as support or alongside your existing graduate program.
All sessions are 1.5 hours, but can be extended to two hours to allow for more discussion.
Changeability
Building psychological flexibility, learning how to work through uncertainty and discomfort, and developing information-seeking skills.
Graduates will gain a framework to navigate transitions, leveraging strengths and establishing a ‘new normal’.
- Develop an understanding of the difference between transition and change.
- Explore their individual strengths and opportunities in relation to this transition (using their customised report).
- Consider key evidence-based strategies and skills important for: new roles (e.g. ‘small fish in big pond’); new relationships (e.g. communicating across
multiple generations); new routines (e.g. setting up for hybrid work success) and changing assumptions (e.g. how feedback is delivered in the workplace).
Adaptability
Practising strategic reflection, and exploring new ways of thinking about work, and career progression.
The workshop introduces graduates to tools for navigating constant change and non-linear career journeys, fostering skills for adaptability across the whole of career.
Graduates will have the opportunity to come together to:
- Understanding adaptability, and how it relates to proteon career attitudes.
- Explore the concept of adaptability in the context of key graduate program (e.g. business unit rotations).
- Apply these skills through interactive case studies exploring common scenarios faced by graduates including low confidence and rotation uncertainty.
Sustainability
Building healthy work habits that will set foundations for a sustainable working life.
This workshop provides practical evidence-based strategies for proactively maintaining a sustainable approach to work and life wellbeing.
- Discover the knowledge base around sustainable careers.
- Lay the foundations of sustainable careers using guided self-reflection exercises that explore career-related beliefs, purpose, interests, and values.
- Explore how career sustainability intersects with health, wellbeing and thriving in work and non-work areas of life.
- Identify how to maintain a continuous learning mindset.
- Recognise the psychosocial hazards that may disrupt their capacity to sustain a career over the long term and determine strategies to overcome them.
Wellbeing Bites
Exiting a graduate program can be an uncertain time as graduates adjust from being guided through their transition to work, to working ‘without a net’.
Our one-hour wellbeing bites are designed to continue to support early career wellbeing beyond the first year of working.
Managing full plates
Strategies to help reduce stress during times of heavy workloads.
Weaving wellbeing into every day
Integrating practical and effective wellbeing habits into daily work routines.
Mental health & wellbeing: Supporting yourself & others
Understanding the signs and symptoms of mental health distress to support yourself and others.
Thriving through change
Strategies for thriving in a VUCA world (characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity).
Building confidence: Overcoming imposter syndrome
Practical strategies to overcome imposter syndrome and perfectionist tendencies to help build confidence.
