The document discusses life skills and their importance for individuals and corporations. It makes three key points: 1) Life skills include abilities like problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, and managing stress that enable people to function effectively in daily life. 2) Developing life skills is important for both individuals and corporations, as it leads to improved performance, reduced stress, and a more positive outlook. 3) There are 10 core life skill strategies according to UNICEF, UNESCO and WHO, including communication, problem-solving, decision making, relationship building, and managing emotions. Mastering these skills helps people address challenges.

1. By Sridevi Chaudhuri
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2. Know Thyself
There are skills in every individual, that needs to
be drawn out and polished.

3. BREAKING THE ICE
Once there is awareness , there is improvement.

4. Life Skills not only helps one to prepare
for better future but also in improving their
performance
Reduced stress level, positive outlook and
ability to draw action plans to achieve
goals help them to bring about a better
performance.

5. Like Skills offers wonderful new ways of
looking at life and encourages one to be
authentic.

6. LIFE SKILLS FOR
CORPORATES………..
Dual challenges in the world market due
to
(competition & rapid technological
advancements)
necessitated a redesign of the workplace into an
innovative work environment known as the high
performance workplace.

7. LIFE SKILLS FOR
CORPORATES………..
This environment requires a behaviour
and orientation toward work and expects
workers at all levels to solve problems,
create ways to improve the methods
they use, and engage effectively with
their co-workers.

8. FOCUS AREAS OF LIFE SKILLS
• Health and social events,
• Prevention of drug use,
• Sexual violence,
• Teenage pregnancy,
• HIV/AIDS prevention,
• Suicide prevention, etc

10. WHAT ARE LIFE SKILLS?
A Life Skill is an ability that makes a difference
in everyday living.
Many writers have tried to define life skills :
• A Life Skill equips a person to perceive and
respond to significant life events.
• A Life Skill is a competency which enables a
person to live in an interdependent society.
• A Life Skill equips a person to be self
directing and productive ,to lead a satisfying
life and to contribute to society.
• A Life Skill enables a person to function
effectively in a changing world.

11. • Life Skills include feelings about one’s
self and skills for coping
• Life Skills are interpersonal including
relationships with others, problem
solving and participation to larger
human community.
• Life Skills are personal – an expression
of the self.

12. • Require thinking or reasoning
(the use of one’s mind)
• Express feelings
(are rooted in one’s emotions)
• Symbolize attitudes
(reveal one’s posture towards others and life)
• Are actions well performed
(behaviours in which thought and feelings and attitudes
find a unified expression)

13. “The Abilities for adaptive and positive
behaviour that enable individuals to deal
effectively with demands and challenges
of everyday life.”
- World Health Organisation (WHO)

14. A behaviour change or behaviour
development approach designed to
address a balance of three areas :
• Knowledge
• Attitude
• Skills
-United Nation Children’s Fund
(UNICEF)

15. Life Skills area essentially those abilities
that help promote mental well being and
competence in young people as they face
the realities of life.

16. In short….
Life Skills empower young people to take
positive action to protect themselves and
promote health and positive social
relationships.

17. It is easier to change our self and our life
by changing behaviour and thoughts than
trying to change emotions…….

18. • Has doing something (reading walking,
talking to friends etc) ever had a
positive effect on your mood?
• What was the situation ?
• What was the effect?
Think of few examples and write them down.

19. NOT therapy
NOT counselling
Life Skills are problem –solving behaviours that
are meant to be used appropriately and
responsibly in the management of personal
affairs.

20. Finally……..
Life Skills coaching is often used to improve
performance in a specific area.
A Life Skill increases proficiency of living;
Life Skills make a difference in quality of
life.

21. APPLICATIONS OF LIFE SKILLS
• Consumer education,
• Environmental education,
• Peace education,
• Education for development,
• Livelihood and income generation, etc

22. WITH LIFE SKILLS ONE IS ABLE TO :
• Explore alternatives,
• Weigh pros and cons, and
• Make rational decisions in solving each
problem, or issue as it arises.
It also entails being able to establish
productive interpersonal relationships with
others

23. CORE LIFE SKILLS
STRATEGIES
UNICEF, UNESCO and WHO list ten(10)
core life skills strategies:

24. • Communication skill,
• Problem solving,
• Critical thinking,
• Creative thinking,
• Decision-making,
• Interpersonal relationship skills,
• Self-awareness building skills,
• Empathy,
• Coping with stress, and
• Coping with emotions

25. COMMUNICATION SKILL
• Includes verbal non-verbal
communication
• Active listening
• The ability to express feelings
• Give feedback
• Presentation skills
• Public speaking skills
• Negotiation and refusal skills
• Assertiveness skills to manage
conflicts, etc

26. PROBLEM SOLVING
Helps us to deal constructively with the
problems in our lives

27. DECISION MAKING
Following constructively with decisions
about our lives.

29. CREATIVE THINKING
Contributes to both decision-making and
problem solving by enabling us to
explore alternatives and the
consequences of our action or non-
action.

30. Creative thinking is simply finding
new, improved ways to do anything
How to strengthen creative thinking
ability?
Believe it can be done
Here is a basic truth: To do anything, we
must first believe it can be done.
Believing something can be done sets
the mind in motion to find a way to do

31. “When you believe something is
impossible, your mind goes to work
for you to prove why. But, when you
believe, really believe, something can
be done, your mind goes to work for
you and help to find the ways to do
it.”

32. CRITICAL THINKING
The ability to analyze information and
experiences in an objective manner.

33. “Creative thinking is generally
considered to be involved with the
creation or generation of ideas,
processes, experiences or objects,
where as Critical thinking is concerned
with their evaluation.”

34. INTERPERSONAL
RELATIONSHIP SKILLS
Are social associations, connections, or
affiliations between two or more people
Helps us to relate in positive ways with
people that we interact with.

35. SELF AWARENESS
• Recognition of ourselves
• Of our character
• Of our strength and weaknesses
• Desires and Dislikes
WHO AM I ?

36. Self-awareness
Self-management
Self-
Self-esteem
confidence
Better Self-awareness leads to better self-
management

37. STRESS MANAGEMENT
About recognising our life stressors and
the sources of these in our lives, then we
can choose to act in a way that controls
our stress levels.

38. EMOTIONS
Recognising our emotions and those of
others, being aware of how emotions
influence behaviour and being able to
respond to emotions appropriately.

39. EMPATHY
The ability to think what life is for another
person, even in a situation that you may not
be familiar with.
The ability to
"put oneself into another's shoes“.

40. DO YOU REMEMBER THIS?

42. DO YOU REMEMBER NOW?

43. PULITZER PRIZE
1994 DURING
SUDAN FAMINE
That picture depicts a
child crawling towards a
UN food camp located a
kilometer away
The vulture is waiting for
the child to die so that it
can eat it
KEVIN CARTER

44. IT DOESN’T END HERE…
No one knows what happened to the
child, including the photographer Kevin
Carter who left the place as soon as the
photograph was taken
Three months later Kevin Carter
committed a suicide due to depression

45. IT DOESN’T END HERE ALSO…
KEVIN’S DIARY-1
Dear God,
I promise I will never waste my food no
matter how bad it can taste and how full I
may be. I pray that He will protect this
little boy, guide and deliver him away from
his misery. I pray that we will be more
sensitive towards the world around us and
not be blinded by our own selfish nature
and interests.

46. IT DOESN’T END HERE ALSO…
KEVIN’S DIARY-1
I hope this picture will always serve as a
reminder to us that how fortunate we are and
that we must never ever take things for granted.
Let's make a prayer and think & look at this
when you complain about your food and the food
we wasted daily.
MAKE YOUR PROMISE TODAY
"I WILL NEVER WASTE MY FOOD"

48. QUESTIONS?????
??

49. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!