Life skills are skills that enable an individual to adapt and cope with challenges, demands and changes in life. These are the skills you need most in life.
Some essential skills include:
- Coping with emotions.
- Communication skills.
- Active listening
- Public speaking
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Creative thinking.
- Creative development
- Digital marketing
- Social media marketing strategy
- User interface and interaction design
- Web and mobile development
- Visual design
- Critical thinking.
- Decision-making skills.
- Identify the decision
- Gather relevant information
- Identify the alternatives
- Weigh the evidence
- Choose among alternatives
- Take action
- Review your decision and its consequences
- Empathy.
- Interpersonal skills.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Analyze the problem
- Generate Interventions
- Evaluate Solutions
- Implement a Plan
- Assess the Solution’s Effectiveness
- Self-awareness.
- Stress management.
You need to learn life skills such as these because it helps you develop self-confidence, successfully deal with life changes, contribute positively to yourself and those around you, understand and analyze situations, develop overall and help with your personal and professional growth.
Personal Skills
These are life skills that are essential to help maintain a healthy mind and body. These include skills such as resilience, self-control and self-awareness. These skills are what we use to recognise, manage and cope with our emotions and heeling out body in check such as having a good diet and exercising.
Interpersonal and communication skills are also life skills you need to communicate with others properly. Literacy skills (such as writing and reading skills) and also skills that will help you in life, it is a valuable skill for communicating or even improving your knowledge.
Numeracy skills help make you more employable, develop a better understanding of the world around you, saves you time and money and also improves your mental health believe it or not😊. Not everyone is good at maths but even the basics open doors (like budgeting).
