We tailor our course content to suit your business culture. Below is a sample course outline which often forms that basis of personal development training within our graduate programmes.
Managing Your Career
In context
The aim of this course is to provide you with the tools and techniques to make a positive impression as you begin
your City career. Graduates can no longer rely on their initial training or qualifications to carry them through
employment. Nor can they rely on their employer to provide everything they need to develop skills and
experience. Taking responsibility for their own lifelong continuing development is the key to long term success.
This course provides graduates with an insight into the impact that personal attitude and behaviour towards
others has in the work environment. Additionally it will explore tools and techniques for maximising their
performance as they embark on a career in the Financial Markets.
Example Case Study
You have been on your desk for one day. Your team mates have been welcoming and friendly but ultimately very
busy and engaged with their work. You know that you still have to gain respect and buy in from your colleagues.
This cannot be done, you feel, until you have started to contribute to the output of your team. You’re at your
desk, scrolling through your emails. In need of something to do, you decide that you may as well complete the
online Anti-Money Laundering training. Just as you are making a start, you are approached by an Associate in
your team who asks you to take minutes at the team meeting to discuss the applications for the new Emerging
Markets trading platform. How will you prepare to ensure your minutes accurately represent what was discussed
during the meeting?
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course analysts will be able to:
- Follow a framework for determining what they want to achieve during their career
- Use tools and techniques to ensure work is achieved to deadline
- Understand the value and benefit of assertive communication when new to an organisation
Course Content
Setting and Achieving Goals
- Understand the pressure points for graduates in the City
- Write a realistic action plan: your annual, monthly and daily routine
- Prioritising objectives to meet your Company’s strategic goals
Work SMARTer not harder
- Use the SMART framework to set and achieve your daily tasks
- Develop a framework for asking the right questions to ensure work can be prioritised and achieved to
- deadline
- Use a solution-focussed approach when asking for advice and/or assistance
- Frameworks for getting the answers you need in a timely fashion – dealing with push back from
- colleagues on the desk
Assertive Communication
- Choose your approach: determine the appropriate response to any situation
- Determine your own business and industry stakeholder map - who can help you to succeed in your
- graduate placement?
- Working in a global organisation: communicating effectively across cultures and time zones
- Managing expectations: remaining assertive when the workload piles up
