In this course, ‘Start with Why?’, we will be focusing on this week’s big question; What is my ‘Why?’. Together with this chapter’s career coach, Sagina Shabaya, you will uncover what truly motivates you to work and understand what drives you to do it.

In this course, ‘Discover your values’, we will be focusing on this week’s big question; What are your values? Together with this chapter’s expert, life and career coach Sue Belton, you will uncover what your values are and how they underpin your ‘Why?’, therefore supporting you in staying motivated. Your learning outcomes this week are to explore the idea of having values and consider your own; developing your values so that you can cultivate them in your everyday life; and identifying why these values are important to you and exploring how they might support you to supercharge your career.

In this course, ‘Get to know yourself’, we will be focusing on this week’s big question: What are your strengths? Together with this chapter’s expert, global diversity leader and entrepreneur, Sonya Barlow, you will be exploring, through self evaluation, your strengths and weaknesses, observing what is currently holding you back and how you can ignite your strengths to guide you forward. In this chapter, you will be getting honest and assess your current career position. When evaluating your skill set, you will be asked to observe how you can improve your weaker aspects and harness your strengths to support your career development. Essentially, owning all of yourself rather than apologising for the parts you have decided are not useful. You will engage with yourself as innately valuable to any position, role or team.

In this course, ‘supercharge your career’, we will be focusing on this week’s big question: What are your career goals? Together with your chapter expert, transformational coach, Dr Yvette Abkrah MBE, you will uncover what your SMART goal is, choosing one that will serve you most in supercharging your career. Your learning outcomes this week are to produce a SMART goal to supercharge your career; Design your own vision and action board; Create a 90 day plan that will provide you with clear stepping stones for taking realistic action towards your new career vision; And to apply all you have learned in this chapter to your career by making sure you are moving towards your goal every day, bit by bit, step by step, day by day.