The Centre for Leadership Performance is here to help at all stages of your journey. We can help you to:
Gain work experience
Develop skills that will be useful in the workplace
Understand how your skills and strengths fit with today’s opportunities
Get involved in volunteer opportunities
Build a network with other young people
Reconnect as a returning graduate
Get involved in mentoring and coaching schemes
Connect with local employers and understand the array of industries beyond nuclear
Existing Programmes
You can take part in one of established programmes:
Dream Placement– a leadership development programme for 16-18 year olds who participate in a series of events to help increase their awareness of career options, meet employers and develop their skills and confidence in readiness for the workplace.
Unique work awareness schemes– Working with local business partners to create a week-long work awareness experience that simulates work-based challenges and gives them an opportunity to develop leadership, teamwork, communication and organisation skills, Projx and Elements
Cumbria Future Leaders– a free signposting and brokerage service for young people aged 16-25 and a mechanism by which the various youth boards, youth groups, young people and young professional networks can work together for greater collaborations and impact and be that diverse youth voice for Cumbria, driving their agenda and debating matters that mean most to them.
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I had done work placements before but nothing like this. I was already thinking about civil engineering as a career – but I had no idea of those skills being used in the rail sector, so working with the Story team was a real eye-opener. The Dream Placement application and…read more
I really enjoyed this week, it has helped me gain skills i thought was impossible to achieve.
I went into Dream Placement looking for leadership opportunities and an insight into working in politics. I found both during my week in the office of Copeland MP Trudy Harrison and her constituency team. I was surprised at the office environment – so friendly but so hard working on behalf…read more
First off, it was amazing that experience was even available in terms of the lockdown, it was also a great opportunity to meet new people outside of your own school and work with new people who you may not necessarily choose to work with previously as you may not know…read more
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I had done work placements before but nothing like this. I was already thinking about civil engineering as a career – but I had no idea of those skills being used in the rail sector, so working with the Story team was a real eye-opener.
The Dream Placement application and selection process was surprisingly tough but we got good feedback along the way that will help improve my skills going forward.
Story Contracting has a really good graduate scheme so that will be something I will be looking at in the future and they have offered me the chance to do some more work experience over the summer. I will definitely stay in contact with them.
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I really enjoyed this week, it has helped me gain skills i thought was impossible to achieve.
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I went into Dream Placement looking for leadership opportunities and an insight into working in politics. I found both during my week in the office of Copeland MP Trudy Harrison and her constituency team. I was surprised at the office environment – so friendly but so hard working on behalf of the constituents. I accompanied Trudy on a visit to Furness General Hospital where I also met newly-elected Barrow-in-Furness MP Simon Fell.
I really enjoyed the atmosphere and felt very much like one of the team. I’d never had an experience like this before – I had done straightforward work experience but my Dream Placement was quite different.
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First off, it was amazing that experience was even available in terms of the lockdown, it was also a great opportunity to meet new people outside of your own school and work with new people who you may not necessarily choose to work with previously as you may not know them well. The project is also quite independent as well so students aren’t completely controlled by guidelines that teachers have set and so they must cover them. I would recommend the ProjX work awareness programme to other students as it opens your eyes to all the different jobs that are required for one project to work and how varied those jobs are. Also, working on the project in teams offers a different experience to what you might do in school as you only focused on one thing and you can develop many skills by working in a team for two weeks, such as knowing when to step up when others can’t.
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