Seedling program - Your transition back to work after a career break

Workshops:

Session 1 - 3 June 2019 @ EY

Session 2 - 13 June 2019 @ WEHI (Seminar Room 1 and Tapestry Room)

Session 3 - 24 June 2019 @ EY

[1/2 day duration each]

Sue Carter delivers three sessions of her Seedling Program - Your transition back to work after a career break. The sessions were proudly supported by venue partners Ernst & Young and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.

Participants are provided with a three-week learning program shared with a group of like-minded career transitioners, harnessing the power of Community, Connection and Collaboration.
  
The Seedling program is delivered through group learning, network building for practical peer-to-peer collaboration and the development of an action plan for implementation with Key Learning Concepts and Takeaways.

Pre-work:

• - Workforce 4.0 Thinking in Action
  
• - Pre-work survey to establish group baseline of attitudes and feelings toward return to work transition, establishing areas of personal growth.
  

Workshop content includes: 

Session 1:

• - What's your motivation to return to the workforce?
  
• - What do you value in your work?
  
• - Your skill audit - what skills, what passion, which role, which sector?
  
• - What value do you bring to the employment relationship? What's your Employee Lifetime Value (ELTV)?
  

Session 2:

• - Why do we work? The career stages of our life
  
• - Deciding if it's time to reinvent your career - and prepare for your next move
  
• - Navigating your role - hours, contract, pay, child care, co-working, work from home - managing the juggle
  
• - What type of work for your - part time, job share, full-time, own biz
  
• - Taking care of you - childcare, you care, family care, couple care
  
• - Heath & Exercise routines
  
• - Re-establishing your professional image and working wardrobe

Session 3:

• - Remembering why you started this journey
• - Keeping up the momentum going - find new networks - Meetups, FYA, Personal, Professional, Industry Newsletters
  
• - Immersing yourself in the new ways of work - Scrum, Agile, Design Thinking
  
• - Developing your own action plan - what's the end game?
  
• - Getting real - peer feedback - collective wisdom, shared solutions
  

Click here to find out what happened during this three-week intensive session.