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Life skills are the skills we need to deal effectively with the challenges in everyday life, whether at school, at work or in our personal lives. Life skills programs are designed to teach a broad set of social and behavioural skills – also referred to as “soft” or “non-cognitive” skills.
There is no definitive list of life skills. Certain skills may be more or less relevant to you depending on your life circumstances, your culture, beliefs, age, geographic location, etc.
Different life skills will be more or less relevant at different times your life, for example:
When at school or university, you’ll need study skills.
When buying a house, negotiation skills may be needed.
You’ll need to work on your employability skills to get a job.
When you have a job, leadership and presentation skills may be useful, along with a whole host of other skills.
When you start a family you’ll need parenting skills. Also time management and organising skills are likely to become important.
There will be times throughout your life when you’ll need conflict resolution, stress-management and problem solving skills too.
However…
Perhaps the most important life skill is the ability and willingness to learn.
By learning new skills we increase our understanding of the world around us and equip ourselves with the tools we need to live a more productive and fulfilling life, finding ways to cope with the challenges that life, inevitably, throws at us.
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