Babcock ADP 24/25

INTRODUCTION

Welcome

We are delighted to be supporting your Babcock Apprentice Development Programme. Throughout 2024/25 we will be running a series of high energy interactive face to face and online Boost Masterclasses that will support your wider development. Our goal is to support you to stay healthy, happy and be able to perform to a high level both in and outside of the workplace. The performance and wellbeing tools and techniques that we will teach you will equip you to take on challenges ahead of you, both during your programme and beyond.

We will be providing you with content and development that we feel is most relevant at each stage of your Early Careers journey.

Overview 2024/25

Babcock Devonport Apprentice Development Programme

BABCOCK APPRENTICE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Below is an overview of your Boost Programme designed to support you to flourish and perform at your best. As you can see, the programme will run throughout 2024/25 with more details of times of each session later in this brochure. Masterclasses will be delivered either face to face (shown in blue) or online (shown in yellow) and presented by wellbeing and performance experts George Anderson and Sam Bishop.

Boost Programme Overview

Mental & Physical Wellbeing

Boost your Strengths and Personal Impact

Boost your Performance Confidence/ motivation

Boost your Performance –Goals

Communication skills

Boost your Performance

you are not a machine

Skern Lodge residential

Face to Face

Oct 2024

Online Nov 2024

Online March 2025

Face to Face

Feb 2025

Face to Face

May 2025

Online July 2025

Residential Aug 2025

PROGRAMME CONTENT

March 2025 Online Masterclass

Our “Boost your performance – confidence and motivation” masterclass looks at how we can overcome mental barriers that stop us performing at our best such as low motivation and low confidence.

• Explore the different barriers to performance and why they occur

• Umderstand where motivation and confidence come from and why they are so fluid.

• Learn tools and techniques to boost confidence and motivation every day

PROGRAMME CONTENT

February 2025 face to face event

Our “Boost your performance – create and deliver high performance goals ” masterclass will help participants to understand how to achieve peak performance on a day to day basis

• Learn about how to set powerful goals and put in place plans to achieve them

• Build the mindset and behaviours to achieve your goals

• Put in place daily practices and routines to track your performance

• Look at how to effectively manage our thoughts and emotions to lead to higher performance

• Learn how to manage stress and use it to elevate your performance

• Explore how to become a more resilient version of yourself

PROGRAMME CONTENT

May 2025 online event

Our “Boost your communication skills” masterclass helps participants to build the confidence to present their ideas in a powerful high impact way.

• How to build a “story arc” to get your ideas across.

• Key strategies for delivering with impact.

• How to overcome nerves and deliver with passion

• This session will allow participants to deliver in a safe environment and gain feedback from George and each other

Residential Week – August 2025

An exciting part of your programme will be a week-long residential event when you will join other apprentices from across Babcock to explore the Babcock Purpose and Principles in a fun and hands-on way.

The week will take place at the magnificent Skern Lodge Activity Centre and will involve a range of challenging but fun activities designed to help you grow and develop as an individual and boost your team working skills.

You will benefit from a superb learning environment and facilities that are second to none. Along with great accommodation, the centre has plenty of meeting rooms, classrooms and social areas.

Drying rooms are provided for each accommodation area and there is plenty of outdoor space to relax or walk around within. Wi-Fi is available within most areas of the site.Added to all this, a heated outdoor swimming pool completes the complex.

SKERN LODGE

You will love our modern facilities set in stunning surroundings where you will be inspired to learn and develop yourself.

SKERN LODGE is located on the North Devon coast, near Appledore on the shores of the Taw and Torridge estuary. Situated on the site of the old Watertown Farm, the buildings have been developed and added to, incorporating the original 1705 stonework into the purpose-built residential facilities.

PROGRAMME TIMETABLE