Led by self. Action-based course.

Your way to a career you care about

Join an action-based, online course to develop a pro-active, confident, self-led approach to landing an amazing job.

Job seeking is hard work

The challenge of getting a job you really want, is hard. No one prepares you for this reality. That’s why we created the Led By Self course.

Get more from your search

Complete a course that gives you ways to manage your time, tasks and stress.

Build in-demand skills - problem solving, great decision making and being pro-active.

Apply all to succeed in your search for a career you care about, as you take the course. Not after.

"The course completely flipped my perception of job hunting, to treating it like I am working for myself and using this as a catalyst to review the way I use my time"

Lucie Sitch

Action-based and focused

Made up of 45 exercises and activities so you can take action, rather than just passively watch videos.

Designed to be simple, engaging and streamlined to tackle the important tasks first. Building on your skills and increasing in complexity as your motivation and confidence grows.





Part 1: The catapult

Hone your space, habits and mindset so you’re able to fly.

The outcomes

  • Master digital tools (Trello and digital calendars) to create structure and motivation.
  • Set boundaries for a healthy looking-for-work/life balance and a more productive day.
  • Shape your work space to be calm, focused and in control of your job search.



The modules


1

The tools to do

Set up digital tools to organise your tasks, structure your week for success and challenge your mindset towards your goals.

Video | 2.5 hours

Sections and exercises:

  1. Your work & workspace
  2. Are you time rich or poor? (mini exercise)

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  3. From 'goal' to 'results' (mini exercise)
  4. What are your supporting tasks? (mini exercise)
  5. Techniques of motivation
  6. Trello and the course board (exercise)
  7. Make the course board your own (exercise)
  8. Sketch out your working week (exercise)

2

Your workspace

Set up your desk, surroundings and yourself so you can be focused and productive.

Self-led | 1.5 hours

Sections and exercises:

  1. Working from home
  2. Your pros and cons (exercise)
  3. Balancing work and life
  4. Defining your personal time (exercise)
  5. Managing distractions (information and exercise)
  6. Useful distractions
  7. Creating a social environment
  8. Mental health
  9. The mindful check-in (exercise)
  10. Your physical space
  11. Where to sit (or stand)
  12. Your desk
  13. Practical considerations
  14. Reviewing your workspace (exercise)
  15. Working with sound
  16. Making sound work for you (exercise)

3

Work routines

Set daily routines to switch on and off work mode, increase focus and maintain a work/life balance.

Self-led | 1.5 hours

Sections and exercises:

  1. ‘Going to work’ routine
  2. ‘Going to work’ suggestions
  3. Create your ‘going to work’ routine (exercise)
  4. At my desk routine
  5. Create your ‘at my desk’ checklist’ (exercise)
  6. Focus routines
  7. The pomodoro technique
  8. Trying the pomodoro technique (exercise)
  9. End of day routine
  10. End of day routine suggestions
  11. Create an end of day checklist (exercise)

4

Powerful tasks

Write tasks following simple rules that will tackle procrastination and see you flying through your to-do list.

Self-led | 1 hour

Sections and exercises:

  1. Why master writing tasks?
  2. What makes a task well written
  3. Tackling procrastination
  4. The rules of writing tasks well: Start with an action
  5. The rules of writing tasks well: Keep them short
  6. The rules of writing tasks well: Make them specific and clear
  7. Improving your tasks (exercise)

5

Your work culture

Build a personal work culture to use your values and enjoyment as a key motivator.

Self-led | 1.5 hour

Sections and exercises:

  1. What is a work culture
  2. What do you want from your work culture? (exercise)
  3. The key elements
  4. Exploration and development
  5. Plot your exploration time (exercise)
  6. Taking time off
  7. Workplace traditions
  8. Work values
  9. Discover your work values (exercise)
  10. Making your work culture a reality (exercise)

Free 5 minutes?

Start exploring your relationship with time in this free 5 minutes from "The Tools To Do".

Meet the course mentor and complete the exercise "Are you time rich or poor?".


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Part 2: The fire

Light a fire under you and put in place ways to keep moving forward.

The outcomes

  • Define your ambitions and set your goals so they are motivating and achievable.
  • Create personal systems and processes to stay positive, focused and moving forward.
  • Reflect and refine your approach to job seeking and self-motivation to ensure all works for you.



The modules


1

Goal setting

Set your own goals and ensure that they are challenging, motivating and achievable.

Video | 2.5 hours

Sections and exercises:

  1. Why set goals
  2. What worked and what didn't (exercise)
  3. Setting goals (exercise)
  4. Getting the balance right
  5. Beyond your comfort zone (exercise)
  6. Set priority (exercise)
  7. Making them manageable
  8. Plan your approach (exercise)
  9. Achieving your goals
  10. Your enablers
  11. Setting enablers (exercise)
  12. Changing direction
  13. Sketch out your week (exercise)

2

Deadlines

Explore your relationship with deadlines and set them up to progress you towards your goals.

Self-led | 1.5 hours

Sections and exercises:

  1. What’s the purpose of a deadline
  2. Understanding your deadlines (exercise)
  3. Your relationship with deadlines
  4. Goals with deadlines
  5. Giving your goals deadlines (exercise)
  6. Procrastination and your deadlines (exercise)
  7. Hitting and missing deadlines (exercise)

3

Accountability

Discover how accountable you hold yourself and the different techniques you can use to improve this.

Self-led | 1.5 hours

Sections and exercises:

  1. What is accountability
  2. What does accountability look like
  3. Why accountability is important
  4. How accountable do you feel? (exercise)
  5. Accountability techniques
  6. Being accountable to yourself
  7. Using goals
  8. Using time
  9. Using performance
  10. Using rewards
  11. Using rewards (exercise)
  12. Being accountable to others
  13. Accountability partner or team
  14. Help as a milestone
  15. Creating an accountable milestone (exercise)
  16. An audience
  17. Finding an audience (exercise)
  18. Being accountable to a system

4

Accountability in action

Test out new accountability techniques and start to put your chosen ones into action.

Self-led | 1.5 hours

Sections and exercises:

  1. Learning from failure
  2. Setting up an accountability partnership or team (exercise)
  3. Being ready to ask
  4. Finding people (exercise)
  5. Running a meeting
  6. An accountable milestone
  7. Setting up an accountable milestone (exercise)
  8. After setting up the milestone
  9. Using money (information and exercise)
  10. Setting up your accountability techniques (exercise)
  11. Other uses

5

The Sprint process

Learn about the task and time management process called 'The Sprint' and how to use it to successfully self-manage.

Video | 2.5 hours

Sections and exercises:

  1. The process
  2. The sprint board
  3. From course board to sprint board (exercise)
  4. The retro
  5. Running a retro (exercise)
  6. Testing our assumptions (exercise)
  7. Mindless task (exercise)
  8. Planning your next sprint (exercise)

"Since joining the course I have become noticeably more confident and I have opened myself up to more opportunities that I would have been scared of"

Anna Poulter

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Part 1: The Catapult

£30

You get:

  • 30 days access
  • 5 modules (1 video-led)
  • 20 exercises

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Part 2: The Fire

£30

You get:

  • 30 days access
  • 5 modules (2 video-led)
  • 28 exercises

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Not ready to start?

Get some free personalised advice or a relevant exercise by contacting our course mentor, Adam, and letting him know what hurdles are in your way. Or share any questions you have about the course.

Email: adam@ledbyself.com

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