{"id":31426,"date":"2026-07-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/?post_type=oasis-news&p=31426"},"modified":"2026-06-23T14:18:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:18:51","slug":"how-skills-for-success-helped-kayla-gain-confidence-in-her-leadership-skills","status":"publish","type":"oasis-news","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/oasis-news\/how-skills-for-success-helped-kayla-gain-confidence-in-her-leadership-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"How Skills for Success helped Kayla gain confidence in her leadership skills\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reading time: 3 minutes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can students augment their leadership and collaborative abilities to create lasting change? With Skills for Success, Kayla has gained confidence in her leadership skills and is excited to continue applying them after she graduates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon arriving at Curtin on the John Curtin Undergraduate Scholarship, Kayla was required to undertake a leadership development program\u2013she chose Skills for Success. Though she found it challenging to meet a lot of new people in the workshops at first, once the activities started, she was excited to learn about a variety of topics.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skills for Success offers a range of different workshops to help students target and develop their leadership skills. Kayla has found the networking aspect of the workshops to be the most valuable.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI liked the\u202fnetworking side and learning how to interact, learning the different conflict and leadership styles and\u202freally how\u202fto engage properly with other people.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kayla has found that she\u2019s already been able to apply the conflict management and public speaking skills she learned in the workshops at work, but also in her degree.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt’s quite a social, interactive degree using a lot of the communication and speaking strategies. Trying to engage in a rapport with someone crossed over a lot.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Kayla\u2019s highlights of taking part in the Skills for Success workshops was being able to develop her skills and confidence in leadership, and applying them on her own. She has especially seen how her confidence has grown at networking events.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I first started\u202funi, I had to do a networking event before I had done any networking, and I sucked\u2013I just stood there in one spot. After the workshop, going into different\u202funi\u202fevents, I learnt how to network and move around the room and talk to people.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the biggest challenges for Kayla was the transition from high school to uni. Being from Bunbury, she wasn\u2019t only surrounded by complete strangers but was also studying in a new city. But going to a Skills for Success workshop made her realise that she wasn\u2019t as out of place as she thought. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you go into the workshop, everyone\u2019s from different backgrounds or schools or areas, but everyone chose to do that leadership workshop, so there’s that similarity. Getting used to interacting with them then helps with getting used to talking to people around uni.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kayla\u2019s advice to other students thinking about getting involved in Skills for Success is to \u201cjust try it\u201d. Though the first one might be difficult when you\u2019re meeting so many new people, she recommends making sure to go to the next one, when everything isn\u2019t so new, and to see how you go. She also suggests bringing a friend to your first workshop\u2013it might make the experience a bit easier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe first\u202fworkshop\u202fis\u202fquite overwhelming because\u202fthere are\u202fa lot of different people. It’s\u202fvery much a learning experience of how it works and how you interact. But\u202fbringing a friend to that first one is nice, and then you can have someone to stay with.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After graduation, Kayla aspires to become a paediatric physiotherapist.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want to go back down south and go into\u202fpaediatrics. I really want to focus on paediatric physiotherapy and my own clinic.\u202fThe closest paediatric physiotherapy place to us down south is half an hour away, so\u202fI\u2019d like to have my own little\u202fkids\u202fclinic down there.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How might Skills for Success elevate a student\u2019s leadership skillset? Meet Kayla, a third-year physiotherapy honours student and Skills for Success participant and facilitator. | Reading time: 3 min.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4492,"featured_media":31427,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"8459,7001,4610,29063,5442,27833","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_oasis-categories":0,"footnotes":""},"oasis-categories":[250],"class_list":["post-31426","oasis-news","type-oasis-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","oasis-categories-student-profile"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Kayla-Oasis-Profile-1000x500.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Rachel","last_name":"Pratt","display_name":"Rachel Pratt"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-28 15:29:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/31426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oasis-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/31426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-categories?post=31426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}