Personal Best London
The Personal Best London programme is a personal and professional development framework for our postgraduate students and research community.
What is Personal Best London?
Our Personal Best London programme has been designed to support all of our students to recognise and better articulate their own skills and experiences. It allows students to reflect on their skills, build experience and effectively invest in themselves for their future careers. The Personal Best London award is a fantastic way of evidencing your personal and professional development during your time at Loughborough University London.
This programme enables you to get the best out of your time as a student as well as helping you prepare for your career beyond university.
What does Personal Best London involve?
Personal Best London progression is tracked through our Handshake Journey “Personal Best London” – Students must activate this journey in order to track attendance and progression through activities attended. If you do not activate the journey, your contribution towards the award through attendance may not get recorded. Once activated, this will allow students to track professional development through engagement of events offered by the Future Space team, plus external events offered by organisations such as KPMG, NatWest, Proctor and Gamble, EY and lots more. All events attended will contribute towards your Personal Best record.
Personal Best events cover three key sections of Personal Best:
- Reflection and Action – Taking part in activities which give you the opportunity to reflect on previous activity and plan out actions to improve your skill set through future development
- Skills – Opportunities for you to develop professional, operational or technical skills through workshops and other activities
- Experience – Activities which will help you to gain experience to contribute to your CV or profile and to help grow your network
Once 15 events have been recorded, students are required to produce and submit a final reflective report submission to successfully complete the award (see below for more information).
Students are required to record attendance to at least 15 activities offered through our handshake events section over their time at LU LDN, using our event check in system at each event – It is the responsibility of students that check in is completed and added to your Personal Best London record. If you do not check in at events, we might not be able to add this to your Personal Best London record.
Reflective report
Once you have completed your required 15 activities, you will be invited to produce a reflective report on your developmental journey at Loughborough University London. It is your chance to reflect on your experience and how this has impacted on your skills and experience as you embark on the next step of your career.
Your reflective submission can be a video, podcast, poster, presentation or written document. Examples of previous successful submissions can be found in Handshake.
All submissions for the full award must be completed by June for October starters and December for January starters. Completing the award means you are invited to our annual Community Celebration Event to receive your award. The Community Celebration Awards event is an event dedicated to honouring our students’, community partners, and Inspiring Success participant’s achievements throughout the year.
Monitoring your progression
Personal Best London progression is monitored through our Personal Best London Handshake journey. You must activate this journey to track your attendance and progression through the Handshake app. If you do not activate the journey, your contribution towards the award may not get recorded.
You are required to record attendance to at least 15 activities (5 for each section) over your time at Loughborough University London, using our event check in system at each event. If you do not check in at events, we will not be able to add this to your Personal Best London record.
Why complete Personal Best London?
The Personal Best London Award has been designed to support you with your professional development and is a fantastic way of recording and evidencing your experiences.
Also:
- The reflective report is a great way to prepare for interviews and be able to recall your development with confidence.
- The Personal Best London Award can now be added to your degree transcript! This can help demonstrate to potential employers your commitment to additional development and learning.