Babcock Graduate Programme

Welcome Gen Healthy Minds was established in 2018 and over the past four years has worked with Early Careers teams across a wide range of sectors and countries to deliver our bespoke programmes.

Everything we do is designed to help you thrive and perform at your best in work and life.

Our offering is unique as we tailor our programmes around developing wellbeing and performance of Apprentices and Graduates during their journey into Early Careers.

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Introduction We are delighted to be supporting your Babcock Graduate Programme.

Throughout 2023 we will be running a series of high energy interactive online and face to face Boost Masterclasses

Welcome

Our goal is to support you to you stay healthy, happy and be able to perform to a high level during your time at work and in your life outside of the workplace

The performance and wellbeing tools and techniques that we will teach you will equip you to take on the challenges ahead of you, both on your programme and beyond.

We will be providing content and development that we feel is most relevant at each stage of your Early Careers journey 3

OUR EXPERT DELIVERY TEAM

Alex Alex La La Via Via

Alex is a leading expert in Digital Wellbeing having conducted Academic research at Aberdeen University with a research focus on the impact that digital technology is having on wellbeing. She has used her expertise to create Live More Offline and a series of programmes to help people create a healthy relationship with digital technology in the workplace.

Sam Bishop

Mike Thompson

Mike has worked for nearly two decades in Sam Bishop is one of the Uk’s leading performance psychologists. Sam works with early careers at Barclays and more latterly elite sports men and women as well as top through his Gen Healthy Minds business working with businesses to deliver businessmen and women to help them wellbeing and performance programmes achieve peak performance in their roles. that support business growth.

George Anderson

George is an international wellbeing speaker, coach and author who has worked with individuals and corporates for over 20 years. He has designed and delivered wellbeing courses, bootcamps and written books on the topic

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Babcock Graduate Programme Overview

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Babcock Graduate Boost 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 2023 with more details of times of each session later in this brochure. Each Masterclass will be either online or face to face and presented by wellbeing and performance experts George Anderson and Sam Bishop.

Boost Programme – Graduates

Boost your mental and Physical wellbeing

Boost your Wellbeing Digital wellbeing

Boost your performance Digital Productivity

Boost your Wellbeing Making stress your friend

Boost your Personal Brand and Networking Skills

Boost your PerformanceYou are not a machine

Boost your Performance – Confidence and Motivation

Boost your Performance Personal Effectiveness

Boost your Communication skills

Face to Face Mar

Online April 2023

Online March 2023

Online March 2023

Face to Face May/June 2023

Online July 2023

Online July 2023

Online Aug 2023

Face to Face July 2023

– Managers

PROGRAMME CONTENT

January – 1 day face to face event Morning

Afternoon

Our “Boost your mental wellbeing” masterclass will help participants boost their mental wellbeing every day

Our “Boost your physical wellbeing masterclass explores how to maximise your mental and physical energy every day to feel great and perform at your best

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• Understand the energy management model

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Learn about positive psychology and positive psychology techniques and how these can boost wellbeing every day

Gain practical skills and tools to boost wellbeing including practicing gratitude, check ins and mindfulness to help you to Flourish at work

• Explore how to improve diet, activity, sleep and hydration for immediate results • How to build healthy routines in your day and create new habits

Follow on Masterclasses – Feb/March Feb Our “Boost your digital wellbeing” masterclass

March Our “Boost Wellbeing- Making stress your

will help participants find balance, switch off from ‘always on’ patterns and reduce digital burnout

friend” masterclass will help participants build a positive relationship with stress

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Learn how being ‘always on’ impacts the body and mind and affects sustainable high performance

• Explore the “performance curve” and why stress is important to achieve peak performance

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Gain practical tips to reduce always on patterns

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Create a more positive relationship with technology for healthy high performance

• Be able to recognize signs of stress and why they are manifesting themselves • Learn tools and techniques for managing stress levels each day and become more resilient

March 1 day Event – Face-to-face Morning Our “Boost your strengths” This Masterclass will use Afternoon Our “Boost your personal brand and the “viacharacter strengths finder” questionnaire to explore participants strengths and we will look at how to use them to become more effective in your work and personal life.

During the Masterclass participants will:

networking skills” workshop helps participants to stand out as well as fit in at work. Graduates will explore

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Understand the relevance and benefits of these insights.

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Learn why playing to your strengths is more important than improving your weaknesses.

• how to develop the 5 Elements of your personal brand and how this can have a positive impact on your career.

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Create an action plan for how you can use these strengths more frequently.

• the concept of personal branding and why it is important to bring your whole self to work.

• How networking can build your brand – top tips to be a great networker

Follow on Masterclasses – April/May April Our “Boost your performance – you are not a machine”

May Our “Boost your performance – confidence and

masterclass will introduce participants to performance psychology motivation masterclass looks at how we can overcome mental barriers that stop us performing at our best such and how it can be used in their daily lives. as low motivation and low confidence.

• We will share interesting case studies of top-class athletes and Explore the different barriers to performance and business leaders to bring concepts to life in an interesting and • why they occur engaging way.

• Find simple ways to boost motivation and • Explore the “human performance curve” confidence • Look at how to effectively manage our thoughts and emotions can lead to higher performance

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Learn tools and techniques to boost confidence and motivation every day All rights reserved © 2020 Vikki Barnes / Gen. Healthy Minds

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Follow on Masterclasses – June June

Our “Boost your digital productivity” masterclass will help participants reclaim time in their day and work more effectively •

Uncover how digital distraction impacts your focus, creativity & strategic thought

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Learn the three different modes of work and how you can use these to be more effective at work

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Gain practical advice on reducing digital distractions and video exhaustion

June Our “Boost your personal effectiveness” masterclass will help participants plan and deliver against their goals in smart ways • We look at how high performers manage their thoughts and emotions to perform more successfully • How to set effective goals, manage high levels of workload, and plan for success.

• We share top tips and tools to track and manage performance.

• How to remove barriers to performance.

July 1 day Event – Face-to-face JULY 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 All rights reserved © 2020 Vikki Barnes / Gen. Healthy Minds

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MASTERCLASS TIMETABLE DATE

PROGRAMME

PRESENTERS

Location

Time

14th-16th March 2023

Boost your Mental and Physical Wellbeing

Sam Bishop

Plymouth

All Day

17th March 2023

Boost your Mental and Physical Wellbeing

Sam Bishop

Bristol

All Day

30th March 2023

Boost your Mental and Physical Wellbeing

Dean Coulson

Rosyth

All Day

10th April 2023

Boost your performance – Digital wellbeing

Alex La Via

Zoom

9-10.30am

24th April 2023

Boost your Performance – Digital productivity

Alex La Via

Zoom

9-10.30am

4th May 2023

Boost your Wellbeing -making stress your friend

Dean Coulson

Zoom

9-10.30am

22-24th May 2023

Boost your Personal brand and Networking skills

George Anderson

Plymouth

All Day

13th June 2023

Boost your Personal brand and Networking skills

George Anderson

Rosyth

All Day

27th June 2023

Boost your Personal brand and Networking skills

George Anderson

Bristol

All Day

5th July 2023

Boost your Performance- You are not a machine

Sam Bishop / George Anderson

Zoom

9-10.30am

26th July 2023

Boost your Performance – Confidence and Motivation

Sam Bishop / Sam Bishop

Zoom

9-10.30am

23rd August 2023

Boost your Performance – Personal effectiveness

George Anderson

Zoom

9-10.30am

11-13th September 2023

Boost your Communication skills

George Anderson

Plymouth

All Day

18th September 2023

Boost your Communication skills

George Anderson

Rosyth

All Day

20th September 2023

Boost your Communication skills

George Anderson

All rights reserved © 2020 Vikki Barnes / Gen. Healthy Minds Bristol

All Day

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What do we need from you ?

“Try to learn something about everything and

everything about something” • We are all individuals and think and act in different ways so each person going through this programme will take different things from it. The key is that you make it work for you and find the tools and knowledge you can take forward into your career: •

We therefore ask that you :

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Are open-minded to new concepts and ideas

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Are willing to give things a go and stick with them (after all it takes 21 days to form a habit!)

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Use the tools we provide you with – we know they work!

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Record your journey– we will be providing you with a journal.

Every piece of research shows that journaling is one of the most powerful tools for self understanding and learning

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Actively participate, be inquisitive and make the most of the experts while you can

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HAVE FUN !!

Thomas Huxley

All rights reserved © 2020 Vikki Barnes / Gen. Healthy Minds

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