Description of a curriculum designed to prepare participants to be responsible adults by enhancing prospects for success, promoting standards of respect, responsibility, honesty and fairness and encouraging virtues and personal practices and pursuits that are good for the individual and good for their society.

1. Life Skills Syllabus Overview
Choose to Succeed
Presented by John Iwaniec
john@iwaniec.com
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2. Course Aims
• Increase
– educational and work readiness
– engagement in communities
– self-confidence
– focus on the future
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3. Learning Objectives
• Focus on essential qualities to improve chance of
success
– character
– attitude
– appearance
– communication
• Identify types of jobs that can be pursued
– with interests/skills they have or can acquire
– based upon their core attributes
• Introduce possibility of a financially sustainable
lifestyle
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4. Curriculum
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Character Budgeting
• •
Attitude Job Search Plan
• •
Networking Appearance
• •
Life Plan Communication
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5. Character
• Students will determine the outstanding
components of their own character
– discuss how they want to be remembered
– present qualities desired to be seen by others
– create and keep a character journal
– track good aspects of their character and aspects
that may need attention
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6. Attitude
• Students will identify how they can promote
their own positive attitude daily
– complete a positive qualities inventory for daily
reference
– develop a self dialogue to change perspective in
difficult moments
– create a daily action plan that will promote a
healthy attitude each day
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7. Networking
• Key component of success
• Dependent upon getting along with others
– ethic and benefit of getting along
– concept of mentoring
• types of people who could be mentors
• where to find them
• Create and contribute to a networking
database
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8. Life Planning
• Self assessment of personality type using a
universally accepted screening tool
• Explore core values and their attributes
• Identify career/education cluster pathways
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9. Budgeting
• Develop budget reflecting costs of living based
on lifestyle choices
• Learn how selected cost of living depends on
employment and compensation possibilities
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10. Job Search Planning
• Focus on a targeted job search
• Perform a skills inventory
• Develop a job profile
• Research to identify employers offering positions
matching the job profile
• Use language to develop an employment
objective statement
• Produce a resume presenting employment
objective and listing interests, skills and
experience needed to achieve it
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11. Appearance
• Importance of first impressions
• Appearance and clothing influence outcome
• Dress for job interviews and
• Fitness, nutrition and positive impressions
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12. Communication
• Communication crucial to success in life
• Importance of listening skills
• How to greet people
• Interview tips
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