“Life skills are the abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life.”
- The World Health Organization
people engagement
Engaging and supporting people through challenging and changing times for many organisations is top of the agenda. The Learning Architect, a consortium of behavioural skills specialists have researched and designed a comprehensive portfolio of key life skills that will help organisations to:
- Improve resilience and stamina
- Reduce stress and absenteeism
- Support work - home balance
- Help people cope better with change
- Get people thinking more positively
- Save money on essential learning
- Keep things simple and effective
what are modern life skills?
The portfolio of modern life skills has been developed working with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) model which divides life skills into subsets of categories which include the following:
- Learning to know - cognitive abilities
- Learning to be - personal abilities
- Learning to live together - interpersonal abilities
As a result 20 core life skills have been identified as follows:
20 modern life skills portfolio
- Change Ability
- Communication
- Conflict Resolution
- Creativity
- Decision Making
- Empathy
- Feedback
- Goal Setting
- Healthy Living
- Live Balance
- Impact & Influencing
- Positive Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Relationship Building
- Relaxation
- Resilience
- Self Confidence
- Stress Management
- Time Management
- Value & Purpose
how it works
- Take a pick ‘n’ mix approach, choosing from the portfolio available
- Each of the 20 life skills are 60-minute interactive bite-size sessions
- Longer sessions can be designed and tailored to suit your needs
- The sessions can accommodate any size audience
- Modern Life Skills - The book provides a motivational take away
- Complimentary on line post activity support is available
- Coaching options are also available to suit your requirements
modern life skills sessions
Each one hour life skill is designed in a way to accommodate all learning styles. The following engagement loop is followed to maximise learning potential and to ensure sustainable personal outputs;
- Introduction to the life skill
- Sharing positive experiences
- Presentation on the life skill
- Group interactive activity
- Tips and toolkit for each life skill
- Reflection and review time
- Personal action planning
train the trainer
The Modern Life Skills Train The Trainer programme will certify trainers to deliver the entire portfolio of life skills.
This 4 day event for up to 6 participants can be delivered in house or as an open course.
There is no annual license fee for this option and all the support materials can be rebranded to suit your requirements.
returning your investment
- Facilitated by a behavioural skills specialist
- Flexibility to suit all environments and audiences
- Blended approach to suit all learning styles
- Post activity materials and on line support
- Delivered on site or local venues sourced
- Focus on personal action outputs
- Quick return in behavioural change and results
client feedback
The Learning Architect provided a very enjoyable and energetic day for the team. We received lots of tips on having a positive approach to work and life and how to manage our own emotions. We were encouraged to look for opportunities and to make sure we take care of ourselves in times of change.
Janet Baker - Deputy Regional Director of Public Health, Department of Health
I would recommend anyone to attend one of these for themselves or for any company going through change, as many of the concepts within the sessions would make the process easier and help those dealing with change maintain a positive and healthy outlook.
Brian Cowen - Manager, N Power