‘All About Me’ is a communications programme directly connecting people from the world of work with schools and their pupils. The programme enables people to deliver one off coaching sessions to teenagers in state schools online and deliver these outcomes for the students:
- To enable young people to identify and articulate their strengths, skills, and values in positive language to adults.
- To bring understanding of why this is a vital life and work skill.
- To increase their levels of confidence, positive thinking and self-awareness.
- To enable them present to an audience.
- To raise aspirations and enable young people to see a positive future for themselves.
Volunteer your time to make a difference!
Ways to get involved:
The programme needs volunteers to hold one off coaching conversations with seconday school students to help them recognise their strengths, their skills and unique experiences. In collaboration with secondary schools we will organise short 1:1 online sessions in approxiately 1 hour blocks, ie coaching 3-4 students per hour. There is no requirement to have coaching skills or experience, just a capacity to listen to young people. You can sign up for as many or as few hours as you like.
It is highly inspirational for young people to hear different career stories.So another way of making a difference is to dial into a live lesson in school for approximately 30 minutes. During the live video feed to the class you would chat through your career story, and then have a brief facilitated Q and A with the students. It is amazing the impact a simple interaction like this can have with young people to help open their eyes to different career paths.
Outcomes
Above all, the process should be as rewarding for the coach as for the student! Students struggle to identify and talk about their skills and strengths; teasing these out is typically an enjoyable process. For the students, having an unknown adult listen to their hopes and dreams can be a life-changing moment. The impact these small interventions make can be tremendous and should not be under-estimated.
The ultimate aim is to increase the students’ self-confidence and self-esteem.
Challenges Today’s Young People Face
Education leaders report that the challenges young people have faced in recent years have had strong negative impacts on their social and emotional development. Students are lacking in confidence, are reluctant to communicate with adults and lack the ability to do so at an expected level.
Many do not feel good about themselves, their skills, strengths, and their futures.
Employers report that communication is the skill that is most frequently lacking in young people and new recruits to the workplace. This hinders their ability to progress and succeed. The programme will address this skills gap and bring lasting change.
Students’ encounters with employers have been severely reduced in recent years. This has left students lacking interactions with supportive employers to help them identify their strengths, realise their positive futures and gain belief that the workforce needs them.
Disadvantaged students particularly lack positivity about their skills and strengths and ability to develop goals. This programme improves their social capital and gives them skills to develop positive attitudes to their future success.
Thank you so much for offering to help!