Personal Development
Unlock your potential with our carefully curated personal development courses, designed to enhance your effectiveness and resilience in conservation work. From mastering work/life balance and reducing stress to building skills in persuasion and feedback, these courses focus on the often-overlooked human side of professional growth.
Each course is part of our comprehensive e-learning platform, crafted to support both your personal and professional development.
Explore our other courses on Team & Leadership, Project Management, and webinars to further enhance your expertise and broaden your impact.
Work/Life Balance and Wellbeing
In this course, the focus is on looking after ourselves. This is something many conservationists can struggle to pay enough attention to, though if we do, it can have clear benefits – for ourselves, those we work with, and the work itself.
We hope at the end of this course you come away with a better understanding of the areas you need to pay better attention to, and some practical ideas to take on board to help reduce stress and improve your personal wellbeing.
Unconscious Bias
Unconscious bias refers to the deep-seated prejudices we all absorb due to living in deeply unequal societies.
Unconscious bias happens when our brains make incredibly quick judgements and assessments of people and situations without us realising. Our biases are influenced by our background, cultural environment and personal experiences. We may not even be aware of these views and opinions, or be aware of their full impact and implications. Throughout our lives, we develop biases towards gender, sexuality, age, race, disability, religion, education and social classes (to name a few).
Learning from Failure
Understand the importance of learning from failure and improve your team culture in recognizing and exploring failure.
Persuading People
Have you ever been in a meeting with someone and you know the best way to proceed… and that it would be in their interests… but they aren’t convinced and you just…can’t…find…the… right…words…?
The power to persuade people can be an invaluable tool to support conservation work. For example, you might want to persuade a donor to fund your particular project, or influence a government minister to support important legislation to strengthen national conservation efforts.
If done successfully, the person who has been persuaded becomes motivated to act in the way you need. So the art of persuasion is not to force someone to do something, but to get them to want to do what you want.
Receiving and seeking feedback
Receiving regular and direct feedback from managers, those we manage, and colleagues, empowers us to grow as professionals and produce better results.
However, not everyone has the same experience and relationship with receiving feedback. Feedback may make you feel anxious, afraid, or even threatened.
That’s why this course will help you understand common reactions to feedback and dispel any misconceptions you may have. You’ll explore how to adopt the right mindset and build a positive relationship with feedback.
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