English club with nataly

Skills for your career

Round 1. Motivation & Positive attitude

What are you passionate about?
What drives and excites you in your professional life? (cause to feel very enthusiastic)
Are you willing to take intelligent risks at work? (good risk decisions.)
What has the most satisfying moment in your professional life been?
When do you usually go the extra mile (to do more than one is required)?
What do you find life-affirming? (makes you feel positive)
What pastimes (leisure activities) do you enjoy outside of work?
What was the most energy-depleting (энергозатратный) period in your job?
When did do something that you had never done before? What did you learn?
Which aspects are important to you? Career development, perks (extra benefits that you get apart from salary), salary, or nice coworkers

Round 2. Tackling Problems

How do you handle (overcome) stress and pressure? What work-situations get you most stressed?
What major challenges and problems have you faced? How did you handle them?
What difficult change have you encountered (experienced) in your career or life?
How do you deal with (solve) differences of opinion among colleagues and friends?
What do you find are the most difficult decisions to make?
How do you deal with situations where there is tension (a feeling of anger) between you and others?
What is your attitude to criticism? Have you ever come into criticism?
When didn't something go according to plan? How did you go through it?
How do you stay motivated when working on a project that doesn't interest you?

Round 3. Plans for the future

Which of your plans is afoot? (are happening now)
Where do you see yourself in one, two, ten years? What do you want to accomplish? (achieve, complete, successfully)
What are the main things that hinder progress in realising plans and dreams? (create difficulties) What any who can set you back? (hold)
What plan will you go ahead with in the future? (continue) How will you put your plan into action?
Do you usually plan something down to the last detail and everything goes as planned?
Do you think that telling others about your decision will help you to follow through? (complete it) What helps you to realize what you have planned?
Does a chance play a prominent role in fulfilling our plans? (very important) How?
How would your perfect daily schedule look like? Why?

Round 4. Soft & Hard skills

What are your career goals? Would you like to accelerate your career? (speed up) Why? What are you concentrating your efforts on at the moment?
Which of your goals have you already reached?
What proven abilities do you have? Do you know someone with exceptional / remarkable / outstanding abilities in your field?
What are your hard skills? (specific skills for your job)
How did you acquire them? Education, self-studying, experience?
Which soft skills do you use? Consider the following: communication skills, problem-solving, critical-thinking, being collaborative, willing to learn, flexibility (гибкость), being open-minded without preconceived notions (предубеждения); accountability (ответственность), motivation, self-direction (инициатива); being result-oriented / detail-oriented; leadership: facilitating (содействующий) and inspiring others
Tell about situations when you used some of these skills.
Which skills would you like to master (освоить)? Why?

Group Discussion: What if… ?
Turn on your imagination and discuss possible consequences.

What if filters were banned from being added to photos on social media?

What if you could design a planet? What would it look like?

What if coffee no longer existed?

What if you could only view one website for the rest of your life? What would it be and why?

What if we had multiple souls in our bodies and not just one?