The Workshops
Get Skills for the Future
Get Skills for the Future
What skills will you need to succeed in your future? Next to the ones you'll learn in your degree, there are a lot more skills that are essential to achieve your career success. Those skills are timeless and transferable to any profession. You've probably heard about them as soft skills or 21st-century skills. Those are skills like communication, leadership, time-management, public speaking, creativity, etc. In this workshop full of exercises and activities, you will explore those skills and their implications for your future. Lastly, you will learn how and where you can learn your desired skills at the EUR.
After completing this workshop you will be able to:
- Understand the importance of 21st-century skills for the future job markets
- Reflect on your 21st-century competencies and identify key improvements
How to Assert Yourself
How to Assert Yourself
Not being able to assert yourself can be quite frustrating in certain situations. For example, people might take advantage of your good nature, and you might find it difficult to say no, or you might want to express your opinion or idea to a group, but you are afraid they might disagree with you. Assertive communication is a crucial skill not only for your relationships but also for your career. Imagine asking your boss for a raise or trying to steer your colleagues towards a certain idea.
After completing this workshop, you will be able to:
- Reflect on your own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to assertive communication
- Create your own set of assertive rights
- Apply principles of assertive communication to a roleplay scenario
Non-Violent Communication
Non-Violent Communication
Interpersonal communication is full of biases and miscommunications that often lead to conflict or passive aggression. Non-Violent Communication (NVC), also known as compassionate or collaborative communication, is a communication approach that can help you to express your feelings, needs, and requests in a clear and empathetic way. In this workshop you will explore how to use NVC as a tool to prevent conflicts and avoid miscommunications.
After completing this workshop, you will be able to:
- Understand key components of Non-Violent Communication
- Apply NVC process to a simple communication scenario
A Brief Guide to Public Speaking
A Brief Guide to Public Speaking
Do you feel nervous when talking in front of a larger audience? Do you want to capture attention and appear as a confident speaker? We got you covered! In this workshop, we cover the essentials of public speaking and get out of your comfort zone!
After completing this workshop, you will be able to:
- Utilize non-verbal communication to capture attention and create a lasting impression
- Apply improvisational techniques to speak more fluently and confidently
- Structure your speech to improve clarity and persuasiveness
Self-Discovery
Self-Discovery
Who are you? Who are you really? When were you truly authentic to yourself? Do you understand your personality traits and how it relates to the outer world? Are you aware of your shadow side? All these immensely intriguing questions will be discussed in our two hour Self Discovery workshop. The session is very interactive and based on psychology and self-development.
After completing this workshop, you will be able to:
- Understand your personality traits and how to deal with them
- Identify steps towards a more authentic version of yourself
- Have the confidence to do more inner shadow work!
Design Your Future Career Now
Design Your Future Career Now
What do you want to be when you graduate? Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Those are tough questions you might not always have an answer to. However, nobody wants to wake up years in a dead-end career that takes our energy and soul. It's time to take a proactive, designer-like mindset to your career. In this interactive workshop, you'll experience several reframing exercises and activities like mind mapping, that will help you overcome career-related limiting beliefs and embrace a designer-like creative mindset. You quickly realize that career design is not only possible but also quite fun!
After completing this workshop, you will be able to:
- Reflect on your current career path and mindset
- Apply design thinking mindset to create on own career path
Introduction to Team Leadership
Introduction to Team Leadership
Leadership, a vague phenomenon you have heard about in politics, business and perhaps sports, but what is it really? What does it mean to be a great leader, and how do you develop the necessary skills? That is exactly what we will discuss in our two hour-workshop. We dive into the definition and characteristics of leadership, and how to efficiently lead team through (Tuckman’s) stages of team development!
After completing this workshop, you will be able to:
- Understand what makes a great leader
- Reflect on your personal strengths and weaknesses when it comes to leadership
- Understand how to lead a team through different stages of team development
How to Pitch Yourself / How to Present Yourself at the Interview
How to Pitch Yourself / How to Present Yourself at the Interview
You've come to the interview and the very first infamous question hits you: “Could you tell us more about yourself?”…and from here on you are pitching yourself! This is not limited to interviews, think about job fairs, networking events, or just meeting someone at the bar who asks you what you do.
After completing this workshop, you will be able to:
- Understand the structure and elements of appealing self presentation
- Craft a “self” pitch that best fits your career goals and personality
- Practice using different pitching exercises and receive feedback from your peers and workshop leader
