Personal Leadership - Master the top 10 life skills with this free online course
The Top Ten Life Skills Online Course
What are the most important life skills? Which one do you need to develop most?
To lead in life you first need to master the most important life skills. These will help with your personal leadership, as well as with influecing and the management of others. So wherever you are on your leadership journey, make sure you develop these core competencies.
The Top Ten Life Skills
Research by UNICEF, UNESCO and the World Health Organisation (WHO) identified the following top ten life skills that everyone should master:
- Self-awareness
- Empathy
- Critical thinking
- Creative thinking
- Decision-making
- Problem-solving
- Effective communication
- Interpersonal relationships
- Coping with stress
- Coping with emotions
Due to the large demand for information on these skills I have created a new online course that covers each skill.
Online Course Content
Each skill is grouped into three main sections and then broken down into supporting elements so that the course covers the following:
Critical thinking and decision-making skills
Critical thinking
- Asking effective questions
- How to use a question technique
- The Socratic method
Creative thinking
- Creating a Thinking Environment
- How to brainstorm with lateral thinking techniques
- How to use Mind mapping
Decision-making
- How to use a decision-making process
- Understanding heuristics
- Recognising cognitive bias
Problem-solving
- Problem identification
- Leading through problems
- How to make an action plan
Interpersonal and communication skills
Empathy
- Levels of listening
- Trustworthiness and the trust equation
- Emotional intelligence
Interpersonal relationships
- How to build rapport and talk to anyone
- Team development
- Managing difficult conversations
Effective communication
- Using the Rule of 3
- Effective writing processes
- How to improve your public speaking and presentation skills
Self-management and coping skills
Coping with stress
- Understanding stress, fight-or-flight and amygdala hijack
- How to use breathing techniques
- Developing a healthy routine
Coping with emotions
- How to identify, regulate and manage emotions
- Why journaling is important and ways to start
- Maintaining a good life balance
Self-awareness
- The importance of self-awareness
- How to do a personal SWOT analysis
- Working out your personal values
Free Online Course Content
It is free to sign up and enrol in the course. Once you have signed in you can access the free content to try out the course without any upfront financial commitment. Just click on the following link:
The Right Questions Online School
The Right Questions online school is expanding its online offering, but if you are interested in a course that is not on offer yet, please drop me a line via the Contact Page.
