First stage – you listen to the four/five units and your give feedback about the content.

What you might gain by being the test user group for the

Life Skills Institute

“ No bird soars too high, if he soars on his own wings. ”— William Blake

WHAT ARE THE CORE LIFE SKILLS WHICH WILL MAKE YOU EMPLOYABLE THROUGHOUT YOUR CAREER?

- COMPREHENSION – WITH A CLEAR SENSE OF SELF

- KNOWLEDGE OF ‘OTHERS’ –COMMON GROUND

- SKILL IN NAVIGATING THE SOCIAL MEDIA AND VARIOUS COLLABORATION PLATFORMS

- KNOWLEDGE OF ‘WHO IS IN BUSINESS TO DO WHAT, FOR HOW MUCH’ – BASIC FINANCIAL LITERACY

PAYING ATTENTION TO YOURSELF

How many of your skills can you carry with you?

Dealing with adversity

Finding out who your real friends are

WHAT SHOULD BE IN YOUR ROUTINE

Making change manageable –PERSONAL RESILIENCE

Environment

Culture and ambience

Basic premise about how the world works – DIFFERENT MODELS AROUND THE WORLD

Public and private sector – different attitudes about money

Looking for points of commonality with people from around the world

Reciprocity

Why does the institution or organisation exist? What does it replace?

What is the business model? What fraction of income is generated by which activity?

Where and how can this ‘go wrong’?

What can I do to make this happen more effectively, more enjoyably, more profitably, or more sustainably FOR THE COMPANY?

What are my particular strengths?

How do MY COLLEAGUES think I can help them? Are they right?

To what should I attach significance ?

As I struggle to understand this organisation, what is already changing within it?

What are the forces that act upon it?

What does it do well?

WHAT MODELS OF CO-OPERATION MAKE IT WORK?

Who is fighting against it’s success, and

WHY ?

LOOK AT THE NUMBERS –WHAT IS THE STORY BEHIND THEM?

WHO DOES WHAT TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN?

WHY IS IT SUCCESSFUL?

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? WHAT IS HOLDING THIS OPERATION TOGETHER?

HOW GOOD ARE THESE PEOPLE AT WHAT THEY DO?

HOW SHOULD I INTERACT WITH THEM?