This course is part of the Career Confidence and Employability Pathways ExpertTrack
Personal Effectiveness
Develop confidence, resilience, and essential employability skills to accelerate your career success.
Duration
3 weeksWeekly study
2 hours100% online
How it worksIncluded in an ExpertTrack
Course 1 of 4
Personal Effectiveness
Build confidence and essential skills for your career
Explore new ways to develop the core skills that employers value most: communication, collaboration, problem-solving, adaptability, and accountability. Through insights from industry leaders at EY, PwC, AWS, Schneider Electric, and Estée Lauder, you’ll discover how these skills are applied in the workplace.
You’ll learn to express ideas with clarity, listen actively, and adapt your communication style to build strong relationships. Through practical exercises, you’ll develop teamwork, constructive feedback, and critical thinking skills to solve challenges effectively.
Develop communication, collaboration, and problem-solving
Explore how to communicate ideas clearly, listen actively, and adapt your style to different people and situations. You’ll learn to collaborate in teams, share ideas constructively, and build strong professional relationships. You’ll practise analysing challenges, thinking critically, and creating practical solutions applicable in study and work settings.
Build agility, resilience, and self-leadership
Examine growth mindset principles, decision-making frameworks like GROW, and strategies for overcoming self-doubt. You’ll learn to take ownership of your progress and sustain wellbeing by reframing challenges as opportunities.
Through employer insights, you’ll discover how professionals use agility and resilience to navigate their careers successfully.
Explore confidence, purpose, and goal-setting
Build confidence by exploring your purpose, values, and long-term goals. You’ll learn to recognise imposter syndrome as a common experience and turn it into a strength.
Through practical goal-setting tools and reflection, you’ll create an action plan supporting your ongoing career development and success.
Syllabus
Week 1
Resilience
Welcome to the course
Understand what you’ll learn and how to get the most from it.
Resilience is hot for employers
Discover why resilience is a key skill in today’s workplace.
The power of resilience
Learn what resilience is and how it supports you through challenges.
Week 1 wrap up
Reflect on your learning and key resilience takeaways.
Week 2
Agility
Introduction to week 2
Explore how agility helps you adapt and grow in changing environments.
Mindset vs Skills
Explore the difference between mindset and skills, and why mindset plays a critical role in personal and professional growth. Reflect on how your mindset influences how you approach challenges and learning.
Power of "Not yet"
Learn how shifting your thinking can support growth and persistence.
Fixed mindset
Identify limiting beliefs and how they affect your learning.
Decision tools
Explore simple tools to support better thinking and decision-making.
Week 2 wrap up
Reflect on how agility can support your learning and development.
Week 3
Confidence
Introduction to Week 3
Understand how confidence supports action and personal growth.
Back yourself
Learn why self-belief is key to taking opportunities.
Use that imposter adrenaline!
Reframe self-doubt as a source of motivation and growth.
Assertive communication
Develop skills to express your ideas clearly and confidently.
Week 3 wrap up
Reflect on your confidence and how you can continue to build it.
Prove you're job ready
Highlight the new, job-relevant skills you’ve gained and supplement existing qualifications with a hard-earned, industry-specific digital certificate – plus one for every course within your ExpertTrack.
- Learn the latest in your chosen industry or subject.
- Complete each course and pass assessments.
- Receive certificates validated by the educating organisation.
- Impress employers with learning outcomes you can add to your CV.
- Make your career dreams a reality.
Download a PDF
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Apply practical frameworks such as GROW to support goal setting, reflection, and personal development.
- Explain the difference between fixed and growth mindsets and how adopting a growth mindset can support more agile learning and decision-making.
- Identify self-limiting beliefs and the inner critic and use techniques such as the Power of Yet to manage them.
- Describe the importance of resilience in the workplace and how it helps individuals respond to challenges and setbacks.
- Apply a four-stage resilience model to turn challenges into opportunities for learning and improvement.
- Identify imposter syndrome, build confidence in personal strengths, and communicate ideas more effectively.
Who is the course for?
This ExpertTrack is ideal for early career learners aged 18–25 preparing to enter the workforce, especially students, recent graduates, and young professionals seeking to build confidence and essential employability skills.
Who will you learn with?
Andy has over 17 years experience in the career-readiness, leadership and professional development space across the world. He currently runs EvolveCareers, a Future of Work EdTech company.
Who developed the course?
EvolveCareers
EvolveCareers is a Future of Work EdTech company committed to helping with the transition from education to early career and beyond industry-led online learning, partnering with 100+ schools and universities and 1,000 employers worldwide.
Start learning today - free 2-day trial
After your free trial you can:
- Pay $39 per month to keep learning online
- Have complete control over your subscription; you can cancel any time
- Work at your own pace and set your own deadlines at every stage
- Only pay while you’re learning; the subscription will cancel automatically when you finish
- Complete online assessments to test your knowledge and prove your skills
- Earn digital course certificates and a final award that you can share online, with potential employers, and your professional network
- Keep access to the content of courses you complete even after your subscription ends
Learning on FutureLearn
Your learning, your rules
- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
Want to know more about learning on FutureLearn? Using FutureLearn
