Impact Level 3:
Practising essential skills

What success looks like 

• 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.

• A plan of how the programme will allow the application and practise of specific essential skills and skill steps.

Why this matters

• 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 will ensure that there is sufficient focus on the outcomes, whilst individuals are on the programme.

What success looks like 

• 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.

• Programme activity that has been designed so as to achieve progress in the Skills Builder Framework skill steps.

• The opportunity to reflect on the Skills Builder Framework skill steps before and after the activity to track whether progress has been made.  

• Links and references to build those skills further beyond the programme.

Why this matters

• 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 there are opportunities explicitly designed to build skills. 

• This helps individuals to understand the progress they have made, and what is next. This can be a pre and post programme survey

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

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