Springboard Brochure

NEW MODEL INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING

Early Career Success Programme Enhancing the confidence and contribution of early career talent

WHY

SPRINGBOARD? Early Career Success Programme At NMITE, we recognise the positive impact and valuable contributions that new talent can bring to a business. We also understand how to nurture that talent, and support individuals’ professional growth.

Our Vision: To see businesses thrive through developing their early career talent.

Our Springboard Early Career Success Programme has been designed to align with NMITE’s innovative model of learning, providing an immersive opportunity for participants to build the skills, confidence and toolkit they need to make an outstanding contribution and to build a successful career.

We offer a valuable and proven range of resources along with tailored support and networking opportunities to participants on their Springboard journey, including knowledge and skills development in areas such as:

• Resilience • Communication • Leadership • Problem-solving • Creativity • Decision-making

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Springboard Community By taking part in Springboard, participants have the opportunity to actively participate in twelve one-day career success workshops, over a year, packed with valuable insights and a range of tools to apply in their own workplace.

Participants learn alongside like-minded professionals from the local business community in a friendly and collaborative environment and enjoy a range of networking opportunities.

“THE COURSE HAS BEEN FANTASTIC SO FAR – ENGAGING AND INFORMATIVE. I’M SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE BEEN PUT FORWARD FOR IT.”

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Resilience and Managing Your Wellbeing

TO SUCCESS 12 one-day workshops over 12 months

Working With Others

Problem Solving and Decision Making

Project Management

We encourage participants to build and harness professional and social networking opportunities between sessions within their own contexts, enabling them to build career connections that help them on their journey to career success.

Throughout Springboard, participants learn to take control of their own development, whilst ensuring they reflect regularly with their line managers to put their ongoing skills development into practice.

How Organisations Work

Customers, Opportunities and Value

Presentation Skills Goal Setting and Reflection

Career Planning and Management

Leadership

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WORKSHOPS

Communication is crucial in every role. Participants develop their skills in active stening, to hear what is, and is not, being said. This session builds skills in communicating confidently, and explores techniques for positively influencing oth

Working With Others Resilience and Managing Your Wellbeing

Managing individualteamworking wellbeing is crucial a successful career.considering In this session,individuals’ ow This session explores andtoteam dynamics, participants learn techniques to look after their own wellbeing, to build resilience, and approach to working in a team, and the impact they have on others around them. to maintain a positive approach.

Participants explore approaches to managing conflict, and techniques for having difficult conversations.

Communicating Confidently

Communication is crucial in every role. Participants develop their skills in active listening, to hear what is, and is not, being said. This session builds skills in communicating confidently, and explores techniques for positively influencing others.

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WORKSHOPS Working With Others This session explores teamworking and team dynamics, considering individuals’ own approach to working in a team, and the impact they have on others around them.

Participants explore approaches to managing conflict, and techniques for having difficult conversations.

Problem Solving and Decision Making Solving problems and making decisions effectively will help participants to progress within their career. This workshop introduces tools to fully explore problems and decisions, identify solutions, and evaluate options, including using strategic approaches to solve complex problems.

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Harnessing Creativity Participants develop their creative abilities by exploring techniques for idea generation and approaches to support their own creative thinking. This session explores innovation and tools to lead innovation in a team environment.

Project Management Projects are crucial in organisations for introducing new products and services and managing change. Participants discover the lifecycle of projects and different approaches used to manage them, understand risks and constraints in projects, and explore factors that enable projects to succeed.

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WORKSHOPS Leadership

Participants will consider the difference How Organisations Work between leadership and management and

recognise their potential to lead regardless of their organisational position. This This workshop considers organisations work. explore businesses and workshop explores how tohow clearly communicate andDelegates drive an organisations’ vision, and their how they styles are financed, they create valuea for customers. A howactivities, different leadership can buildand andhow maintain trust within team. key focus is building customer awareness and learning to make and present effective business cases for new ideas andManagement innovations.

Career Planning and After completing Springboard, participants look ahead and take charge of their continued development. This session prepares them to do that, through exploring their interests and motivations, and considering how to build and leverage their Customers vital to any organisation and attracting them involves building network toare support and guide them in reaching their career goals.

Participants leave relationships. workshop focuses oninterests participants learning to advocate for their with the toolsThis to continue pursuing their and passions through contributing organisation every opportunity, and explores negotiation from a commercial value to theiratorganisation. perspective, based on needs and benefits.

Customers, Opportunities, and Value

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Presentation Skills Giving presentations is an important professional skill, but often a cause of anxiety.

This session helps participants to overcome their nerves by really considering their audience and purpose, and adapting their communication and visual aids appropriately, it considers both live and media-based presentations.

Goal Setting and Reflection For career success, individuals need to take responsibility for their own development.

This workshop considers the importance of setting self-driven, realistic, achievable, but stretching goals. Participants use these goals to help them to manage and monitor their progress through engaging in reflective practice.

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WORKSHOPS Leadership Participants will consider the difference between leadership and management and recognise their potential to lead regardless of their position. This workshop explores how to clearly communicate and drive an organisations’ vision, and how different leadership styles can build and maintain trust within a team.

Career Planning and Management After completing Springboard, participants look ahead and take charge of their continued development. This session prepares them to do that, through exploring their interests and motivations, and considering how to build and leverage their network to support and guide them in reaching their career goals. Participants leave with the tools to continue pursuing their interests and passions through contributing value to their organisation.

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Apply now Springboard has multiple entry points each year, and we welcome applications from early career professionals.

We are happy to accept applications from employers and warmly welcome self-referrals.

Contact us for more details: Email: information@nmite.ac.uk Call: 01432 371111

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New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) Blackfriars Street, Hereford, HR4 9HS Email: information@nmite.ac.uk Call: 01432 371111

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