Starting your career is exciting — but knowing how to manage it takes skill. This one-day course gives graduates the self-awareness, practical tools, and confidence to take control of their career development, build meaningful professional relationships, and navigate workplace challenges — leaving with a clear, personalised action plan for the road ahead.
This one-day course is designed to help graduates take control of their career development within their organisation. Through interactive discussions, self-reflection, and practical exercises, delegates will develop greater self-awareness, understand the motivations and styles of others, and learn how to influence and collaborate effectively.Participants will explore career options, create development plans, build networking skills, and learn to handle difficult people, leaving equipped to manage their career confidently and proactively.Â
Course Outline
During this course, participants will develop self-awareness, build influencing and networking skills, and gain the tools to confidently manage their career development.
Understanding Career Management – Learn why proactively managing your career early is essential for long-term success and how to identify opportunities and make informed decisions.
Self-Awareness – Understand your strengths, values, personality, and behaviours, and how they influence career decisions and workplace interactions.
Identifying Motivations – Clarify your personal motivations and priorities using structured frameworks and understand what drives others.
Working with Differences – Develop strategies to collaborate effectively with colleagues who have different styles, perspectives, and motivations.
Setting Personal Goals – Define career aspirations and create actionable steps to achieve both short-term and long-term objectives.
Networking Skills – Challenge common networking myths and build practical skills to develop and maintain professional relationships.
Managing Challenges – Learn to handle difficult situations and personalities constructively while maintaining professionalism under pressure.
Action Planning and Support – Create a personalised career plan, identify key resources and mentors, and implement strategies to achieve your goals successfully.
Who should attend
This course is ideal for graduates and early-career professionals who want to take control of their career development and build the skills to grow and succeed in the workplace.
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Develop a deeper awareness of their own motivations, personality styles, and behaviours and recognise how these influence career decisions and interactions.
Understand the motivations and styles of others to influence, collaborate, and communicate more effectively in the workplace.
Identify personal strengths and weaknesses to make informed career decisions and plan professional development.
Appreciate the value of networking and apply practical strategies to build and maintain meaningful professional relationships.
Recognise available resources, mentors, and support systems to successfully navigate their career journey.
Course Reviews
Mentor and coaching
Inspirational and engaging. Matt is a fantastic trainer who ensured we were all included and felt part of the course. He gave us some fantastic tools to use in our mentoring journey and hopefully we will see him again soon.
Giving and Receiving feedback
Informative and engaging. She was very engaging and enthusiastic. Lots of activities.
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Very clear, engaging and well produced. Had a breadth of experience across a wide range of industries and applied this knowledge really well with lots of examples
Emotional intelligence
Very interactive and enjoyable. Sandra was an excellent guide through the subject matter, thankyou
Emotional intelligence
Really informative and provoked me to think and reflect. Amazing training from Mary - she was very informative
Emotional Intelligence
It was eye opening. There are so many things we do as individuals that affects other people and the course opened our eyes to them. The activities outside was great, getting us to move around and work in groups kept the course lively and interactive.
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We offer a wide range of bespoke corporate training solutions across key areas such as leadership, management development, digital skills, workplace communication, customer experience, sales performance, project delivery, team development and professional skills. Each programme can be tailored to your organisation’s objectives, your people and the practical challenges they face at work.
Do you offer public courses?
No. Elliott Training does not currently offer public scheduled courses for individual delegates. We specialise in private corporate training courses delivered exclusively for organisations, teams and groups who require tailored training aligned to their business needs.
Are your courses bespoke?
Yes. Our courses can be tailored to your organisation, team and objectives. We can adapt the course content, examples, exercises, case studies and delivery style to reflect your sector, systems, processes and workplace priorities.
Can you create a bespoke course from scratch?
Yes. If you require a course that is not listed on our website, we can design a bespoke training programme around your specific requirements. This is ideal for internal projects, new systems, company initiatives, role-specific development or specialist skills training.
How long are your training courses?
Course length depends on the subject, objectives and level of detail required. We can deliver bite-size sessions, half-day workshops, full-day courses, multi-day programmes or larger training projects across multiple cohorts.