On November 21st, 2020, VPF was pleased to host the “Personal Leadership: Lead Yourself to Success”, the first event in our #path2success series. We are grateful to receive great interest from the community, not only in Finland but also from France, Netherlands, and the US.

Participants of åersonal leadership event in November
During the event, the speaker Sarah Nguyen gave an introduction about Personal Leadership and more specially walked us through four main topics:
1. How can we lead a life with purpose?
2. How can we achieve happiness in a sustainable manner?
3. How could we navigate our career with purpose – define, change or craft our work?
4. How can we keep empowering ourselves to grow?
Content highlight:
The career navigation section received special attention from the audience. Sarah shared her learnings for all the steps in a career journey: how to find a great career, what to do when you desire to change your career and how to make the current job more fulfilling:

Three questions she recommends to ask when thinking about a career:
1. Does it fit my values?
2. Does it evoke excellence i.e. am I highly competent and effective at what I do?
3. Does it bring me engagement or joy?

Three steps she would do to create a career change:
1. Experiment: Try out the activities or roles in a small scale
2. Shift connections: reach out to new contacts, professional networks and role models
3. Connect the dots of my career story

Three ways to craft the current job more meaningful to us:
1. Adjust the tasks
2. Alter interactions with others
3. Reframe social purpose or beliefs about the job

She also guided us through her framework for growth, which we believe is a key takeaway for lots of people.

Sarah Nguyen personal growth framework
We are delighted to receive overwhelmingly positive feedback, which emphasizes on good content and quality of the event.

Good structure and enthusiastic speaker

Good content and applicable

The content is informative and practical

VPF would like to thank our speaker Sarah Nguyen for her dedication and our attendees for making Personal Leadership- Lead Yourself to Success yet another successful event!

VPF is doing our best to bring more interesting speakers to our future events. We are committed to building a strong community of expats in Finland and looking forward to seeing you at our next events!