Transferable Skills

During the expert session, Michelle Schechter engages participants through a series of interactive activities. 

Authentic Networking

As organisations navigate hybrid work, rapid change, and increasing pressure on performance, one challenge consistently rises to the surface: employees are finding it harder to build meaningful professional relationships. Isolation, weakened trust, and fragmented communication are now recognised as real risks to collaboration, engagement, and retention.

Networking is often misunderstood in this context. Many professionals associate it with self-promotion, extroversion, or transactional exchanges that feel forced or inauthentic. Yet in today’s interconnected economy, the ability to build genuine, human relationships is not a “nice to have”; it is an essential workplace skill.

Most people already have what they need to build strong connections, but modern work has made those connections harder to form and sustain. Authentic networking isn’t about schmoozing or selling yourself. It’s about seeing each other clearly, building trust across boundaries, and creating the conditions for collaboration to thrive.

In this Authentic Networking session, participants practise practical, human-centred approaches to connection that counter isolation, break down silos, and strengthen professional relationships. Through reflection, discussion, and actionable tools, participants learn how to turn networking into a skill that supports wellbeing, collaboration, and long-term success.

Avoiding Burnout

Burnout is no longer seen as an individual resilience issue, it is a critical organisational risk. Persistent stress, increasing cognitive load, and always-on ways of working are leaving employees exhausted, disengaged, and struggling to sustain performance.

Burnout isn’t a personal failure. It is a physiological response to prolonged stress without adequate recovery. Modern work environments keep many people locked in a constant state of urgency, activating survival responses designed for short-term threats, not continuous pressure. And prevention starts with understanding the nervous system.

In this session, participants explore the science behind stress, energy, and recovery, and learn how to work with their biology rather than against it. The focus is proactive: helping people manage stress before it becomes depletion.

Through accessible science and practical tools, this session equips participants to regulate stress, protect energy, and build sustainable habits that support both wellbeing and performance.

Critical Thinking

The World Economic Forum lists critical thinking as a top skill needed for professional success in today’s economy. Maybe that’s because this core thinking skill supports problem-solving, breaks down echo chambers, and helps sort fact from fiction. Our take on critical thinking is that the teams we work with already know how to think, but busyness and pressure mean that they’re not always thinking their best.

In this Critical Thinking session we practice positive and pragmatic ways to slow down and think carefully so that participants are better able to think their best, spot opportunities and stay sharp.

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