Starting October 2019 and running through to January 2020, The Learning Exchange will be sponsoring ABC Life Literacy’s Up Skills for Work Series to adult learners at CDC Vimont during class time.
About
UP Skills for Work helps learners develop key employability skills through free workshops and downloadable workbooks.
Check TLE’s Calendar of Events for dates/times:
Motivation
Attitude
Accountability
Time Management
Teamwork
Presentation
Adaptability
Stress Management
Confidence
Why are Soft Skills important?
Soft skills help workers to be adaptable and motivated throughout their whole employment and as they move into new roles or careers. In other words, they lay the foundation for a strong and flexible workforce and for happy, fulfilled workers.
UP Skills for Work focuses on 9 key employability skills that hiring managers look for. These skills were identified by Futureworx, a Canadian non-profit at the forefront in developing soft skills programming.
Nine Employability Skills
MOTIVATION
Wanting to do something. It can also mean wanting to do something really well.
ATTITUDE
How you show your thoughts or feelings through your words and actions.
ACCOUNTABILITY
Owning your actions, both the good and the bad.
PRESENTATION
How you look and sound to other people.
TEAMWORK
Working well with other people. It’s also about treating people kindly.
TIME MANAGEMENT
Making decisions about how you spend your time.
ADAPTABILITY
How you react to change.
STRESS MANAGEMENT
How you let stress affect your work, life and relationships.
CONFIDENCE
Believing in yourself—in what you can do now, and in what you can learn to do tomorrow.
