These times of change and uncertainty for many offer a good opportunity to think more about the life skills we have learnt and to consider how to use them to further career prospects and choices.

Erica Sosna Director of 'The Life Project', a life skills education provider, has developed this bespoke course to enable library staff to identify talents and explore their career opportunities in the light of these skills and talents.

Aimed at staff from all areas and grades of library work, the course offers a new outlook for individuals to take forward when considering their professional aspirations.

Objectives:

By the end of the day participants will:
• Have used lateral thinking to review their skills
• Explored how their interests and hobbies demonstrate a varied skill set
• Worked with each other to explore new opportunities to use these skills and
• Have developed a personal plan of action to move forward.

Session Plan:

10:00-10:25: Welcome and Introduction

10:25 –11.00: Skill Set Review Process – using the Venn Diagram to map your skills

11.00-11.25: Break

11.25-12.00: Creative Combining

12.00-12.20: Group Review and Reflection

12.20-12.50: Developing a mission statement

12.50-13:35: Lunch

13.35-14.20: Action planning tools - GANTT charts, flow diagrams and action plans

14:25-15.00: Individual action planning.

Venue: Cayley Room, London Mathematical Society, De Morgan House, 57-58 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HS; Website: www.lms.ac.uk

Please note that there are limited places available for this event.

To book a place please use our online booking form or email the administrator via cpd25@lse.ac.uk

Cost: £99 for CPD25 members and £129 for other institutions.

Cancellations less than one week before the event will be charged a 50% cancellation fee. In the event of a ‘no-show’ on the day, the full fee will be charged.