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Life Skills Syllabus Overview
Choose to Succeed
Presented by John Iwaniec
john@iwaniec.com
Life Skills Training, LLC

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Course Aims
• Increase
– educational and work readiness
– engagement in communities
– self-confidence
– focus on the future
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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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Curriculum
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Character Budgeting
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Attitude Job Search Plan
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Networking Appearance
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Life Plan Communication
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Appearance
• Importance of first impressions
• Appearance and clothing influence outcome
• Dress for job interviews and
• Fitness, nutrition and positive impressions
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Communication
• Communication crucial to success in life
• Importance of listening skills
• How to greet people
• Interview tips
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