ANTICIPATING CHALLENGES
Employability: Session 11
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OVERALL OUTCOME
LESSON OBJECTIVES
Preparing for the future by anticipating challenges and experimenting with solutions
GENDER LENS
Girls have different challenges from boys when entering the job market. The most common challenges for young women are: lower levels of education and skills, Childbearing and domestic/care responsibilities, lower self confidence, limited access to key assets (money, land…), gendered labour market segregation, limited mobility
Common barriers for young men are: Higher pressure to be breadwinner, perceptions of young men as idle or criminal, negative peer influences, armed recruitment and demobilization, insecurity and violence
During the sessions, it is important to adopt a gender lens. This means that you try to include gender topics where you see fit.
In discussions: you can add a question on the difference between men and women, boys and girls.
Participation: Make sure women also participate in activities and feel safe to voice their opinions during sessions.
Motivational speakers: make sure to invite female mentors and/or speakers so that girls in the course can relate to them
In sum, wherever you can, address issues that women face in particularly, such as harrasment, discrimination on the job market or in specific male-dominated sectors based on gender, ..
DIGITAL LENS
During the sessions, some activities aim at strengthening the participants’ digital skills, more specifically:
Adapted online activities for remote teaching: Some activities have been adapted so they can be facilitated online, using Skype, Zoom, Teams and Google Slides or Google Docs, or include embedded videos and online tools.
Digital peer support: Some activities can be done digitally whereby digitally more skilled or advanced students can be paired with a student who needs support when doing a digital activity.
TODAY’S ACTIVITIES
Personal Time
Management
Review
Identifying barriers
Identifying problems and developing
solutions
Action Planning
Dealing with difficult co-workers
Personal time management: workbook review
Personal time management review
Instructions
Personal time management: workbook review discussion
Personal time management review
Which questions were you focusing on? Why do you think you
chose those?
How did your peers’ answers differ from yours? Did you notice
big differences?
Today’s topic: Identifying barriers
Identifying barriers
In education, training or work, you will encounter challenges.
While not every problem has a solution, anticipating problems and how to respond to them increases our
chances of finding remedies.
Identifying barriers: activity
Identifying barriers
Instructions
Identifying barriers: categorizing activity
Identifying barriers
Internal barriers (within me)
Often to do with our own lack of confidence or our own negative attitudes.
External barriers (outside of me)
Identifying barriers: workbook activity
Identifying barriers
Open your workbooks and fill in three internal and three external barriers that you face personally.
Whenever you face barriers, it can help...
… to talk to a trusted friend, family member or colleague!
Identifying problems and developing solutions: brainstorm
Identifying problems and developing solutions
Which problems might you encounter in the school or work place?
Which problems might be specifically encountered by girls and women?
Identifying problems and developing solutions:
case study cards
Identifying problems and developing solutions
Identifying problems and developing solutions:
Role play
Identifying problems and developing solutions
Instructions
In groups of 5, prepare a role play based on one of the case study cards
Ideally, include a new idea that presents both a problem
and a solution that could be experienced in the workplace.
Getting along with your colleagues: discussion
Getting along with your colleagues
Have you already encountered problems with fellow students or co-workers before?
Share your story (without naming names)
Getting along with your colleagues: workbook activity
Getting along with your colleagues
Getting along with your colleagues: workbook activity
Getting along with your colleagues
Can anyone share a story of when they used one of these tips? Or when they should have?
Which of these tips do you think is hardest to follow? Why?
Write down your top 3 tips individually in your workbook!
Action planning
Action planning
We are going to prepare a planning tool to keep you on track and reflect on the past sessions!
List what you have to do to
Action planning: my example
Action planning
Create an timeline as an example for the group, include action points and milestones...
Action planning: digital tools
Action planning
Suggest digital tools you use, such as Google Calendar, Tasks or the agenda app in a smartphone (depending on what you are comfortable with as a trainer)
Recap of Today
Activity!
Stand in a circle
Throw the ball to someone.
That person shares one thing that could help them overcome a internal or external barrier
Preparations for next week
Workbook assignment
Optional: complete the reflection on advice about how to deal with difficult colleagues.
Completely finish your action planning timeline.
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Key message of today
Preparation is necessary to stay on task and to achieve goals.
Finding a job is not the end of the road- there will be many inevitable challenges to face in the workplace
Some challenges will be more serious than others. Following the tips received in this session will help avoid more minor conflicts. Large problems that deal with rights will be covered in the next session.
Preparation is necessary to stay on task and to achieve goals.
Questions?
Tip!
Let’s use whatsapp group(s) to ask or answer questions and share knowledge and resources!
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