Impact Level 2:
Reflecting on essential skills

The Skills Builder names for the skills being used consistently.

The Skills Builder definitions of the skills being used consistently.

Prompts, questions or reflections that effectively allow individuals to assess themselves, or to be assessed, against the Skills Builder Framework steps.

Some quantification of where individuals are as a result.

This helps individuals to connect where they might have seen these skills elsewhere.

This helps secure individuals’ consistent understanding of what the skills mean.

Making this process transparent helps ensure individuals’ sense of ownership of their essential skills and how they develop.

This should allow individuals' progress to be tracked over time.  

The Skills Builder icons for the skills being used.

Links between the use of the essential skills and positive outcomes – for example, in education, employment, or wider life.

Links and references to opportunities to apply and practice, or build those skills further.

The visual reminder helps individuals to connect the skills in different settings.

This helps individuals to understand how the essential skills support success in their broader lives. 

This means that individuals can then act to boost their essential skills further.