Life Skills

Life Skills: Life Skills are skills which help us to get success in personal life as well as professional life. Any skill that can help us in our survival and any skill which helps us to get success in our personal life or professional life can be considered a life skill.

Life skills are the skills acquired through learning and direct life experience that enable people to effectively handle issues and problems generally faced in day-to-day life.

But generally, these vital skills are mentioned as life skills, as they are required for getting success in personal life or professional life. 1) Goal setting, 2) Time management,3) Positive Attitude,4) Stress management, 5) Mind management, 6) Assertiveness, 7) Leadership skills. 8) Management skills, 9) Team building, 10) Team work, 11) Consistency, 12) Patience, 13) Communication skills

Goal setting

A person might be belonging to student community or any other community is expected, instructed and advised to set a goal so that, he or she will put efforts to achieve it. This can be mentioned as first step to achieve success.

Time management

Once a person sets a goal. He or she will obviously start avoiding wastage of time and starts management of time. Time management is not only management of time but it is priority management.

Positive Attitude

A person can achieve success as long as things or going on well. When things turn upside down, we should be able to bounce back in all tough times, in fact more powerfully to get success in personal life and professional life. Positive Attitude is required to do this. So Positive attitude plays a vital role in our life.

Stress management

Stress management is nothing but getting relieved from stress as quickly as possible, so that you can start working for your goals to achieve success. Stress management make you contribute for the progress of company and make you work for vision and mission of company or organization where you work. Listening to music will make you get relieved from stress. Few people also watch songs on YouTube to get relieved from stress.

Mind Management

Mind Management is controlling own mind and thinking process. Inhaling positive vibrations, thoughts and exhaling negative vibrations, thoughts, which is possible with meditation.

Assertiveness

Assertiveness is asking, protecting and standing up for your rights, or for the others rights without being confrontational, quarrelsome and argumentative.

Assertiveness is communicating your perspective with a calm tone without saying others are wrong.

Leadership skills

Leadership skills are guiding, helping motivating, influencing others with motivational tack.

Assertiveness is a quality required for a leader.

Management skills

Management skills are skills of getting work completed by others.

Management skills and leadership skills go hand in hand.

Team building

Team building is nothing but making people work together for the mission and vision of the organization.

Team work

Team work is coordinating, working together for the mission and vision of the organization.

Consistency

Consistency is working continuously without dropping out till you meet your goal with a positive attitude.

Patience

Inspire of having all the other skills, if you loose your temper and loose patience may put you in trouble and difficulties.

Communication skills

English is a window for the world. To get into any job, let it be related to any industry (IT / ITES) English Communication Skills has become essential and inevitable.

BPO (Business process outsourcing) is being done from developed countries like USA, UK & Australia and the only language what they understand is English. The employees have to interact with the clients as the projects or campaigns have to be done according to the requirement and convenience of the clients. The only language what clients understand is English. If the candidate cannot speak fluently in English, what to speak of getting success, they cannot even survive in the company.

UNICEF, UNESCO and WHO mentioned 10 important life skills as: problem solving, critical thinking, effective communication skills, decision-making, creative thinking, interpersonal relationship skills, self- awareness building

skills, empathy, and coping with stress and emotions.

Life skills are abilities that enable people to deal effectively with the demands, events and challenges of life.

Self-awareness

Self-awareness is recognition and understanding our own strengths and weaknesses, so that we can strengthen the strengths and overcome weakness. Self-awareness helps us to understand where we fit exactly. Unless and until we have passion for the profession neither we can survive in the industry nor we can prosper in the industry.

Empathy

Empathy – we need to have empathy to develop good relationship with others and society at large which is required to get success in personal life and professional life. We should understand and care about other’s needs, desires, feelings and emotions. Empathy is the ability to understand others feelings and emotions. Empathy makes us gain sociability which is required to gain success in personal life as well as professional life. Empathy will help us to accept others.

Critical thinking

Critical thinking is to understand and analyze experiences and information in an objective manner.

Creative thinking

 Creative thinking is a novel way of observing and doing things. Creative thinking helps us in generating new ideas and elaborating on others ideas.

Decision making

Decision making skill makes us take right decisions at right time which is crucial in getting success in personal life as well as personal life.

Problems which are not resolved may cause mental stress and physical strain.

Problem solving skill makes us deal constructively with problems in our personal life as well as professional life.

Interpersonal relationship skills

Interpersonal relationship skills help us keep good relationships, which is very important to our mental and social well-being.

Why to learn life skills?

life skills lead to improvement in the quality of life, promotion of peace and makes a man achieve success in personal life and professional life.