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Transferable skills 🔗
Learning Objectives
Preparation
Must have done the prep work
Introduction
In this session we will talk about our transferable skills.
Exercises
Brainstorming about transferable skills
Goal: To brainstorm about transferable skills. (15 minutes)
In your pairs, ask each other the following questions about your texts
- What would your strengths be as a professional?
- How did your skills help you achieve your goals in your previous education/job?
- What skills do you use to adapt new situations?
- What skills do you use during this course?
Giving each other feedback
Goal: To practice providing feedback. (15 minutes)
- Pair up with another peer.
- Share your text with this person.
- Read your pair’s text.
- Give a feedback on their transferrable skill.
Share how you will contribute to the cohort
Goal: Recognise how each trainee will contribute to the cohort (5 minutes)
Considering your discussion, what is the one positive skill that will contribute to your cohort?
- Everyone to share 1 skill (no explanation needed, no discussion needed, keep it short)
Feedback 🔗
Learning Objectives
Preparation
Introduction
Take turns to play the roles below and answer the following questions for each situation:
- Was feedback positive or negative?
- Was the way it was communicated appropriate? Why?
- How would you improve it?
- What would your reaction be after receiving such feedback?
- Were people in the right mindset to give and receive feedback?
Exercises
Role play these scenarios
Goal: To explore positive and negative feedback. (15 minutes)
Situation 1: Tom asked Katie for help on the code he was writing.
- Tom: “Hi Katie, would you mind spending a few minutes looking at this function I am working on? I can’t seem to find what’s wrong with the code.”
- Katie: “I am extremely busy and stressed with a deadline, but let me have a look.”
- Tom: “Here is the function. Do you see anything wrong with it?”
- Katie: (after looking at the code for some time) “Seriously? How could you miss this? You are missing an End statement. You need to be more careful when writing code so you only ask for help for things that are not this obvious.”
- Katie walks away.
Situation 2: Patricia stops by Carla’s desk.
- Patricia: “Hi Carla. Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate the work you did in the last project and I hope we get to work together again”
- Carla: “Oh Thank You! You made my day!”
Situation 3: Team members in a project retrospective meeting discuss things they did well and things that need improvement.
- Jessica: “I think overall the project went well but developers were constantly waiting for Karen to finish testing their code before they could deploy to Production. She was overwhelmed with the amount of work on her plate”
- Karen: “Yes, I felt bad for blocking deployments but I cannot give my approval until I have completed testing the code.”
- Jessica: “Did you ask for help? We can have developers take the role of QA tester when you are overwhelmed.”
- Karen: “No, I did not ask for help. I did not think of this as an option. I will start implementing this strategy going forward”
Pairs for next week 🔗
Learning Objectives
Preparation
Open the existent Google Sheet for your cohort
Introduction
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Exercises
Create pairs for next week
Goal: Have a new tab for the next weeks pair. (3 minutes)
- Create a new tab on the existing Google sheet
- add the new pairs for next week