Training for Learners
Swick Learning can deliver, create or broker a range of training experiences that help your students become more self-directed and resilient learners.
Our Style
At Swick Learning, we believe the learners are fully capable of owning their education and driving the support they want to receive from their institution – they only need a few baseline skills to get started.
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Our delivery style is unapologetically different. As an external provider, we can quickly set a tone anchored in high expectations and learner agency that regular internal staff often struggle to sustain.
Time and stress management
By Cam Bestwick
There are two main aspects to time management, and one of them is chronically neglected in time management training, which is a huge generator of stress.
The over-represented aspect is about forward planning the best use for one's time. The second, under-represented aspect is about conditioning oneself to actually make best use of time from moment-to-moment in the face of constantly changing information, priorities and motivation and energy levels.
Inattention to this second aspect is why most people who learn about time management techniques struggle to sustain them — because the forward planning is working but the doing is not.
This short course teaches learners to balance these two domains.
Portable Professionalism
By Cam Bestwick
The gap between the expectations of the modern workplace and the default tendencies of entrants to the workforce is growing. This has been frustrating for educators, employers and the young people alike.
To make matters worse, most training on professionalism is merely etiquette-training — teaching young people surface level tricks how to write emails, shake hands, decide what to wear, or memorise to pre-scripted lines for conversation.
This contingency-based approach of memorising scripts for different scenarios doesn’t give young people a true understanding of what makes behaviours professional (or not). Without a mental framework to take into in new situations, this kind of training quickly loses value and people become lost.
Instead, students need a foundational model that helps them make rapid and smart guesses about the most professional approach to any new situation, and frees their mind to focus on the feedback each new situation provides.
This course provides young people with such a framework and helps them apply it to diverse real-world situations.
Note-making for knowledge management
By Cam Bestwick
Formal education privileges the need to prepare students for assessments. And while that's usually not the exclusive focus, it is a high enough priority to have engendered most educated people with ‘bad’ habits around capturing, organising and using knowledge assets (like notes).
This training teaches the learner to reconceptualise notes simply as knowledge assets whose value can be maximised by managing them better. It introduces them to a powerful but lightweight framework for personal knowledge management and, depending on time and learner progress, teaches a 'top ten' interlocking note-making techniques that will serve them better in the long-run.
This short course is an outstanding introduction to good lifelong note-making habits.
Simulations & Challenges
The more that instructional learning can be combined with experiential learning, the more tends to be gained, retained and applied.
We can tailor our workshops to fuse with your existing programs (and love doing this). We can also facilitate fun and challenging simulation experiences for your students to build their capacity and help them integrate different types of knowledge.