Spring clean your skills

Thursday 20 May is national Learning at Work Day – a perfect opportunity to reflect on the skills you need to achieve career dreams and improve your quality of life. This awareness campaign, co-ordinated by the Campaign for Learning, highlights the importance of workplace learning opportunities for individual careers and lives.

You'll find lots of activities below to support your learning and gain new skills:

Learning at Work Day 2010 Survey

Learning - what's driving you?  A short survey to find out if you are performance orientated or learning orientated and how this may affect the way you learn.

Activity Ideas for Individuals

Connect People
Job fit questionnaire- A questionnaire which asks you to look at your role within your organisation and in relation to your colleagues.

Crucial Conversations questionnaire - This is a useful tool for line managers and supervisors. It gives you a chance to look at the best approach to difficult conversations in the work place.

Getting your point across - A tool to help you become a better communicator.

Hobby sharing - A worksheet to help you plan a hobby sharing activity. Teach your colleagues your favorite past time and learn about theirs in exchange.

Learn a Language on your lunch break - Have a go at learning a language.

Connect Learning

Six Book Challenge - Why not challenge yourself to get reading - just choose any six books and away you go!  

Yoga at your desk - Why not relax with a bit of yoga during your lunch break?

Skills for Life - Brush up on your skills for life.

Time to Train? Time to Talk! - Take a look at our brand new guide and resources which look at the new Right to Request Time to Train.

Becoming a Better Learner - Download our new guide that looks at a range of activities that can help you maintain motivation and develop strategies and tactics for successful learning.

Connect Areas

Test your time management abilities and then learn how to manage your workload more effectively

Alchemy for Managers enables supervisors and line managers with answers to the questions “Help, I’m stuck. What do I do next?” or “I’ve got this problem throbbing in my in-tray. How do I solve it?” During the week of Learning at Work Day People Alchemy Ltd will provide full access to Alchemy completely free for more information visit www.peoplealchemy.co.uk/cfl.html    

Taster NVQ sessions from learndirect including team leading, retail skills, management skills and business and administration.

Job swaps - This worksheet will give you ideas on how to plan a job swap. Job swaps give you a valuable insight into what your colleagues do. It can improve communication within your organisation and give you a better understanding of how your organisation works.

Team Building Activities - This website has free ideas for team building activities.

Stress Management - Find ways to combat stress in the workplace.