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potential.ly Embedding Personal and Professional Development Into Higher Education Programmes

The workplace is changing: Employers want graduates with the right skills & competences For example: • Critical and creative thinking • Communication skills • Collaboration skills • Entrepreneurial mindset • Global outlook • Socially, ethically and environmentally aware • Digital skills • Media literacy • Leadership • Future work skills… potential.ly

A degree is no longer enough - the rise of employability In an increasingly competitive job market, a degree is no • longer enough. Students needs to evidence that they have excellent soft • skills, and engage in Continuous Professional Development (CPD). The modern (mass-) university system struggles to equip • students with these skills within the curriculum structure The ‘Humboldt Bildungsideal’ - 'developing mind and • character’ is staging a comeback via ‘employability’ programmes. potential.ly

The challenge: The Big-Picture Problem Personal development is a highly individual learning journey, as each student has different professional development needs. How can we support 10,000s of students in their individual professional development? How can we engage students according to their strengths and development needs at scale? potential.ly

Why personal development? Personal development describes activities that develop a person in a self-directed way, including for example activities that improve: • Self-awareness and self-knowledge • Ability to develop your strengths and talents • Ability to learn new skills • Ability to form social relations • Emotional intelligence • Career planning potential.ly

potential.ly Introducing Intuitive platform optimised to help universities design and embed scalable CPD and employability programmes potential.ly

Bringing all elements of independent learning/CPD/employability together: For the institution : For students : Encourage and enable personal and The place for your personal and professional development across professional development campus • Increase self-awareness with diagnostics and • Promote and increase engagement with CPD self-evaluation tools • Embed effective coaching and mentoring • Discover CPD opportunities/ events/ programmes resources at institution, personalised to every • Personalise the student experience around learner personal development • Reflect on personal development and get it • Design innovative personal effectiveness validated/ accredited with badges programmes with digital awards and badges • Get nudged along to complete learning goals • Work with employers on placements and • Automatically keeps a record of personal student challenges development that can be shared (folio) • Track CPD with learner analytics potential.ly

Help students discover resources, events and courses for their professional development • Introduce students to CPD, employability development and graduate attributes • Increase engagement with CPD and employability by personalising resources to each student automatically based on their needs potential.ly

Create new resources • Direct students to your existing resources and events on your LMS or other systems • Easily create new courses, learning activities and events with a highly intuitive authoring tool • Add videos, images, forms, reflection exercises and short self-assessments that can be automatically validated by the system and enable independent student learning potential.ly

Launch effective Employability awards • Set up Employability awards programmes • Include reflections, logging of volunteering hours, completion of online courses, attendance at workshop and events • Easily configurable to individual programmes and to your process potential.ly

Digital Credentials/ badges Let students earn digital credentials/ badges for their CPD/ employability engagement. potential.ly

Placement years, years abroad, Internships, volunteering • A key element of CPD/ employability is reflection • Potentially makes it simple for students to document their informal learning • Set up effective process potential.ly

folio • All CPD and employability activity the student undertakes is automatically collected in the ‘folio’ - the students’ personal showcase and digital employability record. • The folio can be easily shared with employers and can be connected to Linkedin. potential.ly

Build awareness of strengths and development areas • Built-in psychometric tools optimised for personal development and coaching • Quick and engaging identification of personal strength and stretch areas. • Questionnaire developed over 3 years with over 14,000 students, builds on scientific Five Factor model • Core, comfort stretch trait model - ideal for mentoring and coaching • Mapped to Belbin team roles & Jungian types • Questionnaire only take 15-20 min to complete potential.ly

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The system can be easily customized to the institution’s own development framework and process. Critical and Creative Thinkers A Critical thinker ... A Creative thinker .... Lifelong learning Entrepreneurial Enterprising and entrepreneurial attitude and outlook Active Problem Solver Teamwork, collaboration Leadership (leading people) Initiative (not explicit) Planning/Organisation skills Self-awareness, self-evaluation, self-management Management of digital identities Global Outlook and Community Engaged Valuing diversity Cross-cultural Experience Community engaged Literate and effective communicators Verbal communication Written communication Visual communication Information Literacy Digital literacy Numeracy potential.ly Socially, ethically and environmentally aware

Track employability of cohorts with Learner Analytics. Target specific student cohorts for activities and events. • Activity participation • Engagement • Achievements • Badges awarded • Events booked into / attended • Progress made • Metrics by cohorts • Social mobility potential.ly

Tutor dashboards help to keep track of tutees in one place. potential.ly

What partners say: Potentially is an exciting new online system […] that helps to make personal development and employability activity interesting, fun and rewarding . Professor Gunter Saunders 
 Internet and Education Technology Services Potentially challenges our students to reflect on their strengths and weaknesses, perhaps for the first time. We see this early learning point as providing them with a stimulus for Luke Millard 
 further personal growth that can be nurtured Head of Centre for Excellence through tutors and colleagues. in Learning and Teaching potential.ly

Jisc Digital Discovery tool • Jisc.ac.uk is the UK’s national innovation agency for the Higher Education sector • The Jisc Digital Capabilities framework sets national standards for digital competences of academic staff and students • potential.ly is proud to have been chosen by Jisc as the delivery platform for the Digital Discovery tool, helping students and staff at over 100+ colleges and universities to identify their digital skills needs. • This includes the initial self-evaluation questionnaire, as well as recommendations and delivery of online resources, personalised for every participant. potential.ly

potential.ly The life-long learning platform. Contact Dr Norbert Morawetz norbert@potential.ly Tel: +44 (0) 7872414948 potential.ly Founder Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship Potentially Ltd Henley Business School 4-5 Bonhill Street | Office 167, Edith Morley building Whiteknights London EC2A 4BX University of Reading, RG6 6UD norbert@potential.ly n.morawetz@henley.ac.uk