All WorldSkills UK national finalists are invited to attend online Champion Connect sessions this mid-September to early November, supporting finalists to prepare and achieve their best through peer inspiration.  

Created with Skills Champions, past WorldSkills UK competitors who champion skills excellence, these sessions aim to provide key insights and top tips to increase competition readiness and motivation.  

These sessions are open to all competitors in all skills; we particularly encourage attendance from women in STEM skills and competitors from ethnically diverse backgrounds as these groups are currently underrepresented across our programmes. 

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Why join?

1

Meet past WorldSkills UK competitors from a range of different skills.

2

Discover tips, practices and inspiration to enhance your preparation and performance.

3

Apply your learning to achieve your best.

 

Each session will involve:

  • an introduction to the topic
  • hearing about the experiences of a Skills Champion
  • Q&A
  • key take aways to support tangible actions.

There are five sessions on five different topics, as follows:

Topic  Description  Dates (Session 1 and 2) 
Adopt a winning mindset  Join us with Skills Champions Ana and Yeaba in this session to hear how they practiced commitment, focus and distraction control and used practice to have a winning mindset when they competed. You’ll gain important and insightful advice with a Q&A on how to develop your own winning mindset for the national finals 2025. Session 1: Monday 22 September 12:30-13:30 
Session 2: Monday 6 October 18:00-19:00 
Navigating challenges   Working well and performing under pressure is essential to competing, where encountering challenges can be expected.  

Meet Skills Champions Yasmin and Ewan to hear about how they used support and planning to overcome obstacles and barriers, with the opportunity for Q&A and inspiration on how to overcome your own. 

 Session 1: Tuesday 23 September 18:00-19:00 
Session 2: Wednesday 8 October 12:30-13:30  
Habits of Champions  Join this session to hear top tips from Skills Champions Adhi and Lewis, sharing key advice on how they used performance evaluation, self-organisation, distraction control and practice to prepare for competition, providing practical advice and top tips as to how you can plan and train to achieve your best results, answering any questions you may have. Session 1: Tuesday 30 September 18:00-19:00 
Session 2: Thursday 16 October 12:30-13:30  
Channel your confidence   It can be daunting to compete, and our confidence can vary. If you’ve experienced this, you’re not alone. Skills Champion Kerris shares about her confidence as a national finalist, outlining practices that helped her boost her confidence and back her ability, providing insight to overcome any doubts you have about competing.  Session 1: Thursday 2 October 18:00-19:00 
Session 2: Tuesday 21 October 12:30-13:30  
Beyond the competition   This session aims to inspire you to embrace every outcome as a stepping stone towards growth and encourages you to become a Skills Champion who leads by example. Meet Skills Champions Kasia and Ana to explore how performance evaluation and goal setting helped them, and can help you, to celebrate your experience, achievements and successes during and after competing.  Session 1: Thursday 6 November 12:30-13:30 

  
Session 2: Monday 10 November 18:00-19:00 

 

 

Sessions are being run twice to accommodate availability where possible. 

To sign up for sessions, competitors need to register here.

Please note for competitors under 18: WorldSkills UK must have a competitor’s parental or guardian consent given at their point of competition registration to take part. 

Questions?

competitions@worldskillsuk.org  

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