The Unwritten Rules: Navigating the Real-World Module
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Learning
This Academic and Professional Life Enrichment Course is for older teens and young adults ages 17+ and is focused on personal mastery and upgrowth in an ever-evolving world. This program focuses on developing core competencies in skills to handle inevitable future challenges in one's personal, academic and professional life. It will equip you to thrive in four important ways, by developing deep connections to self and others; skills and competencies needed to contribute to the world; productive habits that lay down the rails for a successful and resilient life; and by supporting you to develop your full potential.
You have your inner compass from Module 7: Internal Mastery and Purpose, now learn to navigate the systems around you. Every organization has written rules: policies, procedures, laws. But the unwritten rules are the ones that actually determine who succeeds, who gets heard, and who gets left behind.
This module reveals those hidden dynamics. You'll learn how to protect your time and energy, navigate bureaucracy, read workplace culture, advocate for yourself, manage up, negotiate ethically, and communicate across generations and cultures.
Module 7 was about knowing yourself.
Module 8 is about knowing the game , so you can play it without losing yourself.
Topics in this module:
1 Time as Currency – The Unwritten Rules of Getting Things Done
2 The Art of Refusal – The Unwritten Rules of Boundaries
3 Paperwork & People – The Unwritten Rules of Getting Things Through Systems
4 Civic Engagement & Digital Citizenship
5 Media Literacy & Information Hygiene
6 Professional Etiquette & Networking
7 Understanding Organizational Culture
8 Advocacy & Speaking Up
9 The Science of Positive Influence
10 Managing Up & Lateral Leadership
11 Crisis Management & Composure
12 Negotiation for Real Life
13 Intergenerational Communication
14 Global Mindset & Cultural Intelligence
You have your inner compass from Module 7: Internal Mastery and Purpose, now learn to navigate the systems around you. Every organization has written rules: policies, procedures, laws. But the unwritten rules are the ones that actually determine who succeeds, who gets heard, and who gets left behind.
This module reveals those hidden dynamics. You'll learn how to protect your time and energy, navigate bureaucracy, read workplace culture, advocate for yourself, manage up, negotiate ethically, and communicate across generations and cultures.
Module 7 was about knowing yourself.
Module 8 is about knowing the game , so you can play it without losing yourself.
Topics in this module:
1 Time as Currency – The Unwritten Rules of Getting Things Done
2 The Art of Refusal – The Unwritten Rules of Boundaries
3 Paperwork & People – The Unwritten Rules of Getting Things Through Systems
4 Civic Engagement & Digital Citizenship
5 Media Literacy & Information Hygiene
6 Professional Etiquette & Networking
7 Understanding Organizational Culture
8 Advocacy & Speaking Up
9 The Science of Positive Influence
10 Managing Up & Lateral Leadership
11 Crisis Management & Composure
12 Negotiation for Real Life
13 Intergenerational Communication
14 Global Mindset & Cultural Intelligence
Meet Our Instructor
Suraiya Essof
Suraiya Essof is a social impact entrepreneur and educator with a passion for lifelong learning, well-being, and social change. She has a Commerce degree in Industrial Psychology and a postgraduate in education, and has been working in the education field since 2002. She is currently teaching English and Business Leadership in the Ontario Secondary School Diploma program and trains and lectures at various leadership academies. She is also a teacher trainer for Cambridge University Press. In 2014, Suraiya founded Kites for Peace, a global movement for peace that uses kite flying as a tool for social change. She represents her country in kite festivals around the world and has worked with young people in Zimbabwe and beyond. Suraiya is also the co-founder and coordinator of the Zimbabwe Cares Network, a charity network of over 150 organizations that work to improve the lives of people in her country. She is passionate about promoting charity collaboration and volunteering as a means for social innovation. In 2020, Suraiya was profiled by the Guardian UK as one of "20 Outstanding Women of Zimbabwe."