Life Skills – Diploma V-SEM – English Lab
I - LIFE SKILLS
Introduction: Life skills are usually associated with managing and living a better
quality of life. They help us to accomplish our ambitions and live to our full
potential. Any skill that is useful in our lives can be considered a life skill. Life skills
are the skills we need to deal effectively with the challenges in everyday life,
whether at school, at work or in our personal lives. A skill is a learned ability to do
something well. Life skills are abilities, individuals can learn that will help them to
live a fruitful life. Life skills are defined as “Skills that help an individual be
successful in living a productive and satisfying life.”
Objectives:
✔ To understand and enhance Life Skills
✔ To live a fruitful life by acquiring skills set
✔ To deal effectively with everyday challenges in life
Essential Life Skills: Here the essential life skills that we are going to master are:
Goal setting
Attitude
Stress management
Time management
Creativity
Problem solving and Decision making
Leadership skills
,Life Skills – Diploma V-SEM – English Lab
Importance of life skills:
In a constantly changing environment, having life skills is an essential part of being able
to meet the challenges of everyday life.
Benefits for the individual
✔ Find new ways of thinking and problem solving
✔ Recognize the impact of their actions and teaches them to take responsibility
for what they do rather than blame others
✔ Build confidence both in spoken skills and for group collaboration and
cooperation
✔ Analyze options, make decisions and understand why they make certain
choices outside the classroom
✔ Develop a greater sense of self-awareness and appreciation for others
Benefits for employment
✔ Employers were looking not just for academic success but key employability
skills.
✔ The ability to self-manage, solve problems and understand the business
environment
✔ Working well as part of a team
✔ Time and people management
✔ Agility and adaptability to different roles and flexible working environments
,Life Skills – Diploma V-SEM – English Lab
✔ The potential to lead by influence
Benefits for society
, Life Skills – Diploma V-SEM – English Lab
The more we develop life skills individually, the more these affect and benefit the
world in which we live:
✔ Recognizing cultural awareness and citizenship makes international
cooperation easier
✔ Respecting diversity allows creativity and imagination to flourish developing
a more tolerant society
✔ Developing negotiation skills, the ability to network and empathise can help
to build resolutions rather than resentments
Developing Life Skills:
Assess Current Strengths
Assessing strengths, or creating a personal inventory, involves making a list of all
current skills and abilities no matter how small or fundamental. Everyone is good at
something. Examples of possible strengths could be as simple as I keep myself clean
and neat, I always try to do my best or I like to read, draw or do puzzles.
Outline Basic Beliefs and Values
Character - What we believe and what we value in life - provides a foundation for
building life skills. The word skill implies action. If we have a skill it means we can do
something. Therefore, developing life skills means putting our beliefs into action. If
our beliefs and values are solid and well-founded, effective life skills will be easier to
achieve. There are many values that could be considered. Examples of values on
which beliefs could be built and around which priorities could be set might include
honesty, respect, self-reliance, determination, wealth, power and fame.
Explore Current Barriers to Personal Growth
In addition to assessing strengths and outlining beliefs, current barriers to personal
I - LIFE SKILLS
Introduction: Life skills are usually associated with managing and living a better
quality of life. They help us to accomplish our ambitions and live to our full
potential. Any skill that is useful in our lives can be considered a life skill. Life skills
are the skills we need to deal effectively with the challenges in everyday life,
whether at school, at work or in our personal lives. A skill is a learned ability to do
something well. Life skills are abilities, individuals can learn that will help them to
live a fruitful life. Life skills are defined as “Skills that help an individual be
successful in living a productive and satisfying life.”
Objectives:
✔ To understand and enhance Life Skills
✔ To live a fruitful life by acquiring skills set
✔ To deal effectively with everyday challenges in life
Essential Life Skills: Here the essential life skills that we are going to master are:
Goal setting
Attitude
Stress management
Time management
Creativity
Problem solving and Decision making
Leadership skills
,Life Skills – Diploma V-SEM – English Lab
Importance of life skills:
In a constantly changing environment, having life skills is an essential part of being able
to meet the challenges of everyday life.
Benefits for the individual
✔ Find new ways of thinking and problem solving
✔ Recognize the impact of their actions and teaches them to take responsibility
for what they do rather than blame others
✔ Build confidence both in spoken skills and for group collaboration and
cooperation
✔ Analyze options, make decisions and understand why they make certain
choices outside the classroom
✔ Develop a greater sense of self-awareness and appreciation for others
Benefits for employment
✔ Employers were looking not just for academic success but key employability
skills.
✔ The ability to self-manage, solve problems and understand the business
environment
✔ Working well as part of a team
✔ Time and people management
✔ Agility and adaptability to different roles and flexible working environments
,Life Skills – Diploma V-SEM – English Lab
✔ The potential to lead by influence
Benefits for society
, Life Skills – Diploma V-SEM – English Lab
The more we develop life skills individually, the more these affect and benefit the
world in which we live:
✔ Recognizing cultural awareness and citizenship makes international
cooperation easier
✔ Respecting diversity allows creativity and imagination to flourish developing
a more tolerant society
✔ Developing negotiation skills, the ability to network and empathise can help
to build resolutions rather than resentments
Developing Life Skills:
Assess Current Strengths
Assessing strengths, or creating a personal inventory, involves making a list of all
current skills and abilities no matter how small or fundamental. Everyone is good at
something. Examples of possible strengths could be as simple as I keep myself clean
and neat, I always try to do my best or I like to read, draw or do puzzles.
Outline Basic Beliefs and Values
Character - What we believe and what we value in life - provides a foundation for
building life skills. The word skill implies action. If we have a skill it means we can do
something. Therefore, developing life skills means putting our beliefs into action. If
our beliefs and values are solid and well-founded, effective life skills will be easier to
achieve. There are many values that could be considered. Examples of values on
which beliefs could be built and around which priorities could be set might include
honesty, respect, self-reliance, determination, wealth, power and fame.
Explore Current Barriers to Personal Growth
In addition to assessing strengths and outlining beliefs, current barriers to personal
