17/11/2024
Hungary
participants
The goal of the Training New Leaders event was to provide young people with the opportunity to discover more about themselves as a leader and to enhance their competences and improve their organisational and leadership abilities.
The job market is incredibly competitive where a lot of experience in soft and hard skills is required. With globalisation, young people need to master skills and competences related to international career paths, in which leadership is considered essential. With this training course, we aimed to provide participants with the tools and knowledge to start their journey in becoming quality leaders and obtain skills relevant for their future careers.
At the end of the training course the participants:
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have developed a more professional leader attitude;
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have developed soft skills relevant for developing themselves as leaders and for leading groups, projects and tasks in an online or offline working environment;
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learned how to balance their work and their well-being;
- learned how to further develop themselves professionally and personally, in particular in the context of leadership;
- have extended their network with like-minded future leaders who helped them further develop themselves and broaden their horizons.
Our participants have left empowered and enriched with knowledge, excited about new opportunities to come and actively planning their development for the future.
The content of the event was delivered by AEGEE members with experience in non-formal education methodology. Through the usage of interactive sessions with a focus on group discussions and challenges, participants were guided through a learning journey to help them enhance their leadership abilities. They learned useful information, skills and techniques on team management, delegation, public speaking, giving feedback, discovering themselves as a leader, well-being, and creating goals and strategy. They also put these into practice through case studies that they solved in small groups and presented them, paying attention to the techniques they have learned on the lectures, and beside hearing feedback from our trainers they evaluated each other.
After the days filled with training sessions there were social programs organized as well, such as the European Night, where the participants could showcase their different cultures, and a city tour.
The event was inclusive in the way that it was open to both university students and young adults regardless of their nationality and background, operating fully in English. At the start of the event there was an opening session focused on ensuring that the training space and the event was safe and participants will be considerate of their peers so that true development could take place. Our chosen venue was Corvinus University of Budapest that had many environmentally friendly initiatives such as water dispensers and many selective waste bins were dispersed throughout the building. The university is situated at the centre of the city, making it a great meeting point for the participants, with many public transport options, which made our event accessible.
During the training all our participants learned to understand their strengths and weaknesses better, and how to use them to their advantage. Thanks to the training sessions, case studies and tools provided, participants have gotten better equipped to lead and organize teams, projects and tasks, with the ultimate aim of easing their transition into the job market with simplifying climbing the career ladder in their desired fields.
This activity is part of the project:
Erasmus Careers