‘Soft Skills For Success’ is a 7-session programme for young people aged 16-24, comprising seven one-hour weekly sessions.
The programme allows participants to explore each of the 5 barriers that block the entire range of soft skills. They discover how these barriers stop them reaching their personal and professional potential. And they learn how to change this situation – by becoming a barrier-breaker.
“This programme actually made me think about my life, past, present and future. It made me realise to be who I am and not think about what others think of me.”
Asiya
The programme increases awareness of soft skills, and an understanding of their value. It gives participants the tools to break through the barriers – immediately and in future – so they can access their innate soft skills, develop them further, and display them to others.
Ideally, participants will have first completed the Be Yourself Brilliantly! introductory workshop, but this is not essential.
“I have gained more confidence and skills through the programme. I know how to prepare better for an interview. And why soft skills are important.”
Erica
SESSION I: an introduction to the programme.
SESSION 7: wraps up the programme, recapping what has been covered – through participant presentations – and reminding everyone of how the learning can be applied in the workplace and throughout life.
In SESSIONS 2 – 6 each of the five barriers is considered, through a presentation, discussion and activities. Participants explore:
SESSION 2: Backward Focus. Developing leadership skills such as self-reliance, reflection, independent thinking, using initiative.
SESSION 3: Inward Focus. Developing communication skills such as teamwork, listening, presenting, empathising.
SESSION 4: Downward Focus. Developing trust skills such as confidence, motivation, concentration, self-promotion.
SESSION 5: Right Focus. Developing structured skills such as self-discipline, time management, decision making, organising.
SESSION 6: Left Focus. Developing creative skills such as using imagination, having an individual perspective, problem solving, experimenting.
Participants are assigned activities – or ‘quests’ to do between sessions in the real-world, to try out the techniques they’ve explored in the session and embed the learning. These activities are reviewed in the subsequent session.
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Did this session change the way you think about your life?
What was the most useful thing you learnt?
What did you enjoy most about the sessions?
