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Part 2: Professional Skills

In Part 2, participants will receive inspiration to start building their professional profile, feeling
empowered about their strengths and abilities that can be used to succeed in their professional life,
while they try to effectively communicate with each other, both verbally and non-verbally, and
they will try to realize how important is to practice their own voice in personal and professional
environments. What is more, participants will be encouraged to drive changes in their professional
pathways. The trainers should focus on building and supporting the self-efficacy of participants
and spread the message that every participant is a powerful and capable person.

Activity title: A pathway for a success story
Through this activity, participants will get motivation and feel empowered
listening to others’ success stories, who have also been in difficult situations,
Objectives which may be similar to their experiences. Thus, they will try to improve
and Learning their empathy and search for their internal strengths and abilities to
Outcome
improve their professional skills irrespectively of their circumstances, skills,
and resources.
Preparation & Digital equipment for the videos (the suggested videos are those with the
Materials UPTHEM’s success stories and there is also a suggested video of a TED talk)
Recommende
d Time 90 minutes
For the first 30 minutes, the trainers can use 6-7 videos of UPTHEM’s success
stories. Then, as an additional success story, participants can watch a video of
a TED talk that analyzes the difficult pathway to success of an Arab
businesswoman. You can find it here with Greek and other many subtitles
Instructions
(duration 14 minutes).
After that, they can start a conversation about which story impressed them
more, which part was the most inspiring, and how they could use some tips as
examples in order to create their own success story.
The goal here is to present the truth. Difficulties and obstacles will always be
there, but it is important to make participants feel that if someone tries, at the
end he/she will overcome them and succeed. In this way, try to make
participants see that they can also succeed. Make clear that it is they who can
Tips & unlock their potentials.
In addition, it would be valuable to ask participants to reflect on how realistic
Recommendat each success story is, as they could feel that we present to them fake stories
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with the aim to mention that everything is possible but somenone's current
situation can be quite difficult in real life. Or another useful question might be
what difficulties do they think may face if they dare to start their own business
or look for a job/better job. The facilitator is advised to write down all the
answers and keep them for the improvement of the workshop.

Project 2019-1-BG01-KA204_062299
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