slides from Kelly and Victoria's session

1. E N G A G I N G WAY S TO
D E L I V E R C A R E E R S
P R E S E N TAT I O N S / W O R K S H O P S
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Kelly King
Lead Careers Adviser
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Professional Development Day
University of Portsmouth
20 June 2019

2. SESSION CONTENT
• Resources you can use to encourage audience involvement
• Ideas for practical activities you can use in your career workshops
• PowerPoint - practical tips to keep your audience engaged
• Sharing creative ideas of what has worked well in your own
institution

3. MENTIMETER -
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GET INTERACTIVE WITH . . .

4. MENTIMETER
• Great resource for engaging audience to contribute anonymously
• Various packages available for audience engagement – trial period is FREE
• Simple and quick way to gain anonymous feedback to rate your careers session
• Excellent way of collating further shared resources when delivering to colleagues
• Can be used in many creative visual ways in careers workshops

5. Example: mentimeter responses from a Resilience workshop

6. PRESENTATIONS: GET THE LOOK
Templates
Images (.com)
Unsplash: Over 1,000,000 free high-
resolution photos brought to you by the
world’s most generous community of
photographers
Pexels: Providing high
quality and completely
free stock photos
Pixabay: Stunning free images & royalty free
stock. Over 1 million+ high quality stock images
and videos shared by our talented community.
Canva: Design templates for presentations,
infographics, CVs, business cards, posters,
logos, flyers, brochures etc.
Prezi: Designer templates, millions
of reusable presentations, and a
PowerPoint-to-Prezi converter
Tip: compress images to reduce file size
PowerPoint: Template theme options
available from the Design tab

7. PRESENTATIONS: MAKE IT MEMORABLE
Animation
MusicTED and TEDx talks
Animated GIFS/Memes -
www.giphy.com
Online timers with optional sound:
www.online-stopwatch.comAnimation resources offering a limited
range of free options include:
powtoon.com
animaker.com
ga.vyond.com (offers 14 day free trial)
Video
YouTube
Bitmoji
www.bitmoji.com
Guide from the
University of Hull -
https://libguides.hull.ac.uk/
digitalstudent/music
Avatar Maker
www.avatarmaker.com

8. SOME USEFUL TIPS
WHEN PRESENTING

9. POWERPOINT
TIPS

10. % QUIZ USING . . . THE HUMAN PIE CHART
100%
25%
50%
75%
We invite you to:
• Stand Up !
• Imagine that you are at the
centre of a virtual pie chart
• Get ready for the questions
• Turn your body to the %
angle of the pie chart that
represents your answer

11. % QUIZ USING . . . THE HUMAN PIE CHART
1. % of LinkedIn members who live outside the United States of America?
2. % of the UK workforce in 2018 that has a degree or equivalent qualification?
3. % of graduates from 2017 who went to work in a region that they were not already connected to
(neither originally domiciled or place of study)?
4. % of businesses who rate positive attitude and resilience among their top three considerations
when recruiting?
5. % of non-academic staff aged 25 and under, working at UK Higher Education providers in 2017?
Sources:
1. LinkedIn company statistics 2019
2. & 3. Presentation delivered at the recent AGCAS GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY AND SKILLS CONFERENCE in London (May 2019) by Dr Charlie Ball, Head of HE Intelligence, Graduate Prospects
4. CBI/Pearson Education and Skills Annual Report 2018 with survey responses from businesses and trade associations representing over 28,000 employers
5. HESA Statistical release: Higher Education Staff Statistics: UK, 2017/18 - staff employment at UK higher education (HE) providers on 1 December 2017

12. ACTIVITIES: PROPS, FEELINGS, MOVEMENT AND FUN
Prop: Playing cards
Mixing a room - facilitating a group to randomly
connect and work with others they may now know.
Distribute cards randomly among a group, one per person.
Depending on the size of the groups you are seeking to form,
you may then ask each person to gather with others who
meet the following criteria:
• Card of the same suit, eg hearts, diamonds, clubs and
spades
• Card of the same value, eg all the 4’s get together, all the
Kings get together, etc
• Everyone holding an odd (or even) card
• Everyone holding the same colour card
Prop: Bingo cards
Networking
Instead of numbers, create a grid with the title
“I have found/spoken with someone who …”
The squares containing statements Eg:
• Had to re-take exams
• Has a business card
• Has over 100 LinkedIn connections
• Knows someone who successfully runs their
own business
• Took a ‘gap year’
• Has lived abroad
• Designed their own website
Prop:
Career-
related
questions
Jenga! 'Line-up' activities – place yourself in a
position on a scale, or next to a category

13. POWER OF A PICTURE
Select a picture that you are instantly drawn to from
the range of pictures that are displayed in the room
Activity idea:
Spend 3 minutes reflecting on how this picture relates
to your own careers service/professional practice –
make some brief notes of your thoughts.
With the person next to you, you now have 5 minutes
to each share your thoughts about the picture you
have chosen and how it relates to the question above
[Countdown - https://www.online-stopwatch.com/countdown-clock/full-screen/]
Example
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Picture cards available via Amazon search
Eg. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Individual-Conversations-Building-School-Babel/dp/B015VE55TA

14. HOW CAN THIS BE USED IN CAREER SESSIONSExample

15. The act of writing slows down your mind
and helps you focus.
When writing purposely, we tend to
become more conscious of our words
compared to speaking.
It takes longer to write a sentence than
it does to say it, and therefore we slow
down our thinking.
HOW CAN THIS BE USED IN CAREER SESSIONS
Using pictures to stimulate writing and reflection . . .
Example

16. Select two images from the picture cards provided:
The first image should illustrate where you see
yourself now (life, career).
The second image should illustrate where you want
to be (aspirations, dreams).
Workshop: Self-reflection and reflective writing activity
Make some brief notes:
• Why those images?
• How do you plan to get there?
Now … discuss your picture choices
with another person in the group.
Write a short individual reflection about your experience of this activity
(Invite participants to share examples)
Example

17. Using randomly selected coloured sweets eg.
Skittles/M&Ms/Smarties to encourage
communication as either an icebreaker
activity or related to an employability topic.
Example
Activity method – use of props to encourage communication
Example …… linked with self-awareness for self-promotion
e.g. developing CV/LinkedIn, preparing for interview.
• Blue – What is the best work, study, skill or achievement
related compliment that you have received?
• Green – If you were a book, what would your title be?
• Red – What makes you unique?
• Purple – How would your friends describe you?
• Orange – If your name was an advert, and it had a
strapline beneath it, what would it read?

18. Proxemics
measures of personal space –
professional etiquette
Workshop - Professional
Communication and Etiquette
(with UK and International students
and graduates)
Icebreaker activity (5 mins) . . .
small groups + tape measures!
Example

19. Proxemics physical space in communication, the physical distance between communicators
Social Distance (x.xm to x.xm)
Working together in the same room or during social gatherings. Speech needs
to be louder and eye contact remains essential to communication, otherwise
feedback will be reduced and the interaction may end.
Closeness and Personal Space
Every culture has different levels of physical closeness appropriate to different types of relationship, and individuals learn these distances
from the society in which they grew up.
In Western society, four distances have been defined according to the relationship between the people involved.
Using a tape measure, estimate in cm and m,
the following distances:
Public Distance (x.xm to x.xm +)
Addressing groups at a public distance. Exaggerated non-verbal communication
is necessary for communication to be effective. Subtle facial expressions are
lost at this distance, so clear hand gestures are often used as a substitute.
Larger head movements are also typical of an experienced public speaker who
is aware of changes in the way body language is perceived at longer distances.
Personal Distance (xxcm to x.xm)
The 'far' phase of personal distance is considered to be the most appropriate
for people holding a conversation. At this distance it is easy to see the other
person's expressions and eye movements, as well as their overall body
language. Handshaking can occur within the bounds of personal distance.
Intimate Distance (touching to xxcm)
Tends to be seen as an inappropriate distance for public behaviour.
Uncomfortable/disturbing if you do not have a close relationship.
5 mins
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20. Intimate Distance (touching to 46cm)
Personal Distance (46cm to 1.2m)
Social Distance (1.2m to 3.7m)
Public Distance (3.7m to 7.6m +)
Sources: The work of E.T. Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxemics also see https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ips/body-language.html

21. PROBLEM SOLVING & LATERAL THINKING

22. Task (5 mins): working with the person next to you/in small groups (and
without accessing the Internet!) . . .
Work out a way to put your entire body
through a business card!
Using some of the following equipment:
• Standard sized business card (85mm x 55mm)
• Paper clip
• Pair of scissors / craft knife
• Hole punch
• Ruler / measuring tape
• Pencil / Pen
Workshop – Proactive Job Search, Networking
Icebreaker activity (5 mins)
Example

23. This is a normal business card, measuring 85mm x 55mm.
This example opens into a ring with a circumference of 166 cms, almost
5'6", enough for two people, at a squeeze!
You need quite good cutting skills for this trick, and quite a slender
intimate friend if you want to get two bodies through it at the same time.
Fold the business card in half, and cut it through both
sides of the card, as shown in the diagram, in the
following sequence:
• Cut 10-12 slits, from the folded edge up to about
3mm of the open edge, each slit about 5mm apart.
• Cut a slit between each of the above slits, from the
open edge up to about 3mm of the folded edge.
• Open the card and cut the folded edge, but not the
ends marked with blue circles.
You should then be able, gently, to open the card into a
ring, which unless you are a very large person, you
should be able to put your entire body through.
Solution:
http://www.businessballs.com/businessballspuzzlesanswers.htm#business-card-trick
https://www.businessballs.com/team-management/team-building-games-training-ideas-and-tips/#sheet-
of-paper-step-through-game-icebreaker-teambuilding-problem-solving-togetherness-kids-scissor-skills-

24. Lateral thinking
Taking a creative approach to a
problem or challenge.
Example 1. If the day after the day
before yesterday was
Tuesday, and the day
before the day after
tomorrow is Thursday,
what day is today?
2. A fire officer has 12 matchsticks lying in front of
her. She removes just one of them.
She now sees 9 in front of her. How is this possible?
The remaining 11 matchsticks form the word NINE
Questions taken from Lateral Thinking quizzes from Uni of Kent Careers Service.
Answer:
Activity method – quiz questions
Used as session icebreaker / ‘mental
warm-up’ to thinking “outside the box”,
being innovative, in order to solve a
problem.
Useful in preparation for interviews
(problem solving questions).
Useful in course workshops linked with
Advertising, Marketing, Media.
Answer:
[Countdown - https://www.online-stopwatch.com/candle-timer/full-screen/]
1 min

25. invite discussions

26. MENTIMETER -
WWW.MENTIMETER.COM