{"id":4671,"date":"2022-12-15T07:40:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T21:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/?p=4671"},"modified":"2022-12-15T08:08:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T21:38:44","slug":"4671","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2022\/12\/15\/4671\/","title":{"rendered":"The Horizon Awards celebrates students for their commitment to professional development"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Your degree isn’t your only learning opportunity here at Flinders. The Horizon Awards<\/a> provide a diverse range of professional development opportunities in your time as a student. A chance to build valuable knowledge and skills for the workforce. They just held their 2022 award ceremony and I was in attendance. Reading time ~ 1 minute. <\/em><\/p>\n

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I was fortunate to be present at the Flinders University Horizon Awards yesterday (14th December).<\/p>\n

I got to see a large number of students accept their Silver, Gold and Platinum awards for professional development undertaken as part of their degree.<\/p>\n

The Horizon program<\/a> gives Flinders students access to a wide range of extra-curricular professional development opportunities: workshops, leadership training, networking, volunteering.<\/p>\n

These opportunities help students build ‘soft skills<\/a>‘ (a terrible name to be honest), the non-technical skills that actually do much of the heavy lifting in how we adapt and perform in the workplace. Included are things like problem-solving, communication, adaptability, resilience, teamwork, conflict resolution and creativity. These aren’t necessarily taught in a student’s core degree, where the focus is technical skills.<\/p>\n

As Romy pointed out in her opening congratulations, these soft skills equip students with the ‘flexibility and nimbleness’ necessary to enter a complex, ever-changing work environment.<\/p>\n

Over 3500+ students are currently enrolled in the Horizon program<\/a>. 9000+ have gone through the program since 2016.<\/p>\n

Gold award winners are generally doing about 3-5 hours per week on top of their existing study, work and personal lives. Platinum award winners maintain this over multiple years.<\/p>\n

That impresses me, and I extend my congratulations and respect to those students putting in that time. That is a level of drive and determination that I did not have in my university days!<\/p>\n

In the post award nibbles and drinks, I got to have a quick conversation with the new Horizon Award program coordinator – Tony Duggan<\/a>. I was pleased to hear that the program is not only continuing in 2023 but will be getting some additional love and expansion. We chatted briefly about how Horizon and HCDS\/Oasis might collaborate more to deliver wellbeing related content into the professional development program.<\/p>\n

With more workplaces and work environments prizing resilience and self-care skills, this is a good time to get self-care skill training programs into student professional development.<\/p>\n

Last point – if you are returning as a student next year, and have not checked out the Horizon program, I strongly encourage you to do so. Their FLO topic<\/a> is excellent and you can see the diverse range of training opportunities available.<\/p>\n

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