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Build essential professional skills through intensive practice — from structured communication to work ownership — preparing early-career talent to deliver with confidence.

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Succeed as a Professional

Adopting a Professional Mindset

Embrace the mindset of a high-impact professional

Why this matter?

The difference between average and exceptional performance often comes down to your mindset and how you approach your work.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

What participants will do together

  • Understand why a mindset shift is required to go from a student to a professional
  • Practice the PRO framework of being a high-impact professional
Communicate with Impact

Leading with the Answer

Communicate efficiently by stating the main point up front, followed by structured arguments

Why this matter?

Competition for attention is fierce. Getting your message across clearly and succinctly is a make or break.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

What participants will do together

  • Review what it means to communicate top-down
  • Structure a fragmented message into a logical structure
  • Rewrite an email to be answer first, evidence second
Communicate with Impact

Professional Writing Style

Make your writing clear, concise, and compelling

Why this matter?

Improving your writing style is often an easy, low-hanging fruit to make your communication immediately more effective.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

What participants will do together

  • Learn the style tips that make your writing clear, concise, and compelling
  • Revise others' writing to incorporate the aspects of professional style
Succeed as a Professional

Time Management Basics

Manage your schedule intentionally to work smarter

Why this matter?

In our always-connected work life, there's always a push to do more with less. Intentional time management is key to staying in control.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

What participants will do together

  • Discuss common work frustrations that stem from poor time management
  • Identify which work to prioritize on any given day
  • Practice 3 tactics you can use daily to practice strong time management
Take Ownership

Delivering End-to-End

Take your level of ownership from good to great across all aspects of work

Why this matter?

People love working with people who can own and deliver great work end-to-end. This is how you gain access to coveted opportunities and build a career that’s both enjoyable and fulfilling.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

What participants will do together

  • Identify frustrations that stem from a failure to deliver end-to-end
  • Practice delivering end-to-end in common domains of work
  • Evaluate how well you deliver end-to-end in your work
Take Ownership

Boosting Attention to Detail

Minimize errors by freeing up your working memory, improving your focus, and create a system to reduce mistakes

Why this matter?

Attention to detail makes a big impact on how your manager evaluates your performance. It might feel abstract to improve on this front—but you can be more tactical by breaking down attention to detail to its main enablers.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

What participants will do together

  • Review the factors that drive attention to detail
  • Learn concrete strategies to boost attention to detail
Take Ownership

Minimizing Unnecessary Rework

Create rapid drafts of work outputs before producing full versions to align upfront and reduce churn

Why this matter?

Misalignments lead to back-and-forths and wasted efforts. A better way to work is to iterate fast with prototypes that drive alignment with key stakeholders.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

What participants will do together

  • Identify common drivers of unnecessary rework
  • Review how to make 2-hour prototypes
  • Apply rapid prototypes to reduce rework in several workplace scenarios
Manage Up

Adopting a Leader Mindset

Gain more autonomy over your work by demonstrating leadership over your work day-to-day

Why this matter?

No one likes getting micromanaged—we all want more control over our work. Key is to give your managers the confidence to let you run with it.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

What participants will do together

  • Learn how and why you should manage up at work
  • Review aspects of a leadership mindset
  • Apply each aspect to several different workplace scenarios

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“Across the board, Sparkwise is hitting 70-80+ in net promoter score—which is world-class.”

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