WHAT IS IT? (A UK BASED CHARITY)

WHERE SHOULD IT FIND A HOME?

SREELA BANERJEECO -FOUNDER

The Lifeskills Institute

READY TO WORK

CONVERSANT WITH SELF MANAGEMENT ABLE TO CO -OPERATE ACROSS CULTURES WITH AN ACCEPTABLE LEVEL OF

F INANCIAL L ITERACY AT LEAST ON A ‘RULE OF THUMB’ BASIS

WITH SOME IDEA OF HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS USED IN THE WORKPLACE , AND PRIVATELY

Aiming for work-ready young people at each entry

stage

History : It all started last summer- FROM THE ‘WALLACE PROJECT’the Wallace Fund has given me a (very) small grant to start work

Amongst others, the CBI talked about four areas of knowledge which its members found were lacking in new entrants to the workforce:

1.Self management

2.Finding common ground with a diverse community of people

3.A basic idea of how the world works, including financial literacy

4. Social media (dangers and rules of digital collaboration)

This wasn’t set out that clearly – it involved a lot of reading – sometimes between the lines

All party parliamentary committee on financial literacy

Research by a team from the LSE on how finanical literacy is taught most effectively – with micro loans in Latin America

Activise teaching tool – teaching by articulation and discussion – particularly useful for girls and women

Vocational Training report by Dr Alison Woolf

And much more besides

Sometimes what I found turned out to be unexpected – like this graffiti in Sicily ! But some of it was obvious

Employers have found many ways of saying - ‘our new workers don’t know how to pay attention and learn things in one go’

Simultaneously, there has been a small group of people teaching just this – through a process called ‘mindfulness training’.

Now, NICE the NHS regulatory body, recommends this AND PARLIAMENT ENDORSED IT (APPG)

We will call it ‘check YOU out’ or attention focus exercises

Employers are cautious of a new employee who is used to (digitally) ‘travelling’ everywhere in an instant

They want their employees to know the business model of the social media companies.

Etiquette on business social media is important – ‘client engagement’ and ‘employee engagement’ are both done using social media

New entrants need to have an understanding of how these tools operate within the company and outside it

Father and son checking messages– a mixed race family has an advantage in some ways !!

The ‘politically correct’ teaching of religions is not a sufficient basis for individuals to find common ground between races and cultures

Yet, young people newly in the workplace often find themselves collaborating with people from all parts of the world… They MIGHT BE MORE CONFIDENT if they already know of common ground, across traditions and cultures

There is no such thing as an average young person – and YET they all need to know how the world works

A BASIC LEVEL OF FINANCIAL LITERACY IS CRUCIAL FOR SURVIVAL IN WHATEVER FIRM A YOUNG PERSON JOINS

- JOIN UP THE DIFFERENT ROLES OF PEOPLE IN THE ECONOMY – WHAT ARE –

- TAXPAYERS, CONSUMERS, INSURERS, BANKERS, SAVERS INVESTORS, DRIVERS, CORPORATES AND EXPORTERS, WORKERS, BOSSES

PACKAGE THIS FOR THE ‘EDUCATION’ SECTOR ?

TEACHERS NEED TO LEARN HOW TO TEACH THIS

PUPILS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS WILL NEED TO LEARN HOW TO USE THIS

TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES

SCHOOLS

FE COLLEGES

UNIVERSITIES

BUT UNLESS IT HAS THE BLESSING OF EMPLOYERS, IT WILL LACK CREDIBILITY

SHOULD BE TRANSFERABLE and available WORLDWIDE

TEACHING UNITS FOR TEACHERS

DESIGN

PILOT

ACCREDITATION

TEACHING

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DELIVERY METHOD :

Learning SOME OF THIS by articulation and self testing for confidence USING SOFTWARE WHICH HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED

COMBINED WITH MUSIC to embed the experience

STAGE 1 – SET UP AS A NON-PROFIT FOR THE DESIGN PILOT AND ACCREDITATION STAGE – IN AN

UMBRELLA ORGANISATION FOR EMPLOYERS? I THINK ITS SPIRITUAL HOME HAS TO BE IN

A B ODY OF EMPLOYING ORGANSATIONS

STAGE 2LAUNCH AWAY FROM THE

‘SPONSORING’ ORGANSIATION(S)AND STAND ON ITS OWN TWO FEET

WHERE SHOULD THIS INSTITUTION SIT?

- C H A M P I O N W I T H I N H E ? P R E F E R A B LY Y E S

- C H A M P I O N W I T H I N I N D U S T RY ? E SS E N T I A L

- C O S T S, F U N D I N G A N D T I M E S C A L E S N E E D T O B E S E T O U T, B U T O N LY W H E N I T H A S A H O M E . S E E K I N G A R E S E A R C H G R A N T F O R P H A S E 1

- N E X T S T E P S – D O I N G T H E R E S E A R C H A N D T H E N B E I N G ‘A D O P T E D ’

LOOKING FOR A GOOD ‘HOME’ FOR THIS ORGANSIATION