Yagleel Capacity Building Program

Employability Cohort One

Core Life Skills
 TODAY’S ACTIVITIES

Learning about introduction to

Summarizing
each other Core Life Skills
Icebreaker
OVERVIEW OF Core Life Skills

Core Life Skills is more of a personal reflection and skill

building course which will prepare participants for the
Employability component
• Learning to think critically about oneself and their current
situation is easily applicable to a professional setting
• Setting, checking and revising goals should become a
regular habit
• Participants might come from a variety of backgrounds and
have a variety of experiences but we will see how similar each
person’s basic goals are.
What do you want to gain from this course? Write down three goals or things
you want to learn during the Core Life Skills programme?

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Personal Understanding & Reflection

Confidence and motivation needs to first come from within.

• Even entrepreneurs need to work with others and be able
to problem solve as a team and listen to other people’s
ideas.
• If we speak clearly and with confidence people will take us
more seriously
• Each one of us is full of talents and skills which will help us
reach our goals in life and it’s important to be aware of our
strengths and challenges, to evaluate ourselves in a critical
way.
 Reflection Activity

Who can give advice, come up with solutions? How

would you define the word “goal”?
 Goal setting
Goal setting is an important part of your
life as you approach any new task,
direction, or decision. Setting goals will
help keep you focused so that you can
more easily see a good opportunity.
CRITICAL THINKING AND
PROBLEM SOLVING

What is critical What is problem

thinking to you? solving to you?
 Group work!

Instructions: how to make a Problem Tree

● Draw a large tree
● In the trunk, write your problem/issue
● At the roots, state the causes of the issue
● At the branches, write what happens as a result of this
problem
 Personality quiz
If you want to know more about yourself before making a
choice, visit the following website and find out what type
of personality you are:

www.16personalities.com
 SWOT analysis
1: Strengths
A -What are our skills, talents and abilities?
B- What resources do we have to help us set
up this enterprise and run it successfully/to
help us find such employment?
C -Do we have any knowledge or experience
in this area
2: Weaknesses
A What skills, talents and abilities do we
need that we don’t have yet?
B What resources do we need that we
currently lack?
C Do we lack any knowledge or
experience?

3: Opportunities
A Who can we ask for help and support? Who
do we know with expertise with this type of 4: Threats
enterprise? A What are three things that could go
B What strengths can we turn into
wrong with our plan?
opportunities?
C What skills, talents and abilities can we
develop?
 Presenting yourself: activity
Instructions

● Stick a piece of paper on your backs.

● Stand up and begin walking around the room.
● For 5 to 10 minutes, write something you like, admire or appreciate about
that person on the paper on their backs.
● Return to your seat and read your own paper.
Presenting yourself: online branding
and marketing

Personal branding and marketing

This is a way of presenting your best self online,

for example through Facebook, LinkedIn , twiter,
Tiktok, Instagram, a website, and blog, .
Thank You