Building Your Life Skills: Who Are You, Where Are You, and Where Do You Want to Go: A Personal Action Plan (How to Books (Midpoint))

217 Pages·2000·1.26 MB·English

by  Judith Johnstone

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Building Your Life Skills

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Inspiring, informative books for thoughtful readers wanting to make changes
and realise their potential.
Other Pathways books include:
Getting Your Next Job
A systematic approach to find the career that is best for you
Healing the Hurt Within
Understand and relieve the suffering behind self-destructive behaviour
Women Returning to Work
How to work out what you want and then go out and get it
Please send for a free copy of the catalogue for full details
(see back cover for address).

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Building Your Life Skills
Who are You, Where are You, and Where Do You Want to Go: A Personal Action Plan
Judith Johnstone
PATHWAYS

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First published in 1999 by
How To Books Ltd., 3 Newtec Place,
Magdalen Road, Oxford OX4 1RE, United Kingdom
Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone]
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or stored in an information retrieval system (other
than for purposes of review), without the express permission of the publisher in writing.
© Copyright 1999 Judith Johnstone
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Pathways is an imprint of
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Contents
List of Worksheets viii
Preface xi
1
Giving Yourself Credit 1
2
Preparing the Groundwork
5
Recognising Your Skills and Abilities
9
Basic Learning Skills
11
Skills from School and Higher or Further Education
12
Skills in the Workplace
15
Skills in the Home
17
Pastime Skills
18
Interpersonal or Social Skills
19
Portable Skills
21
Summary
2
Reviewing Educational Skills 22
22
Schoolday Experiences
23
Remembering Life at Primary School
25
Remembering Life at Secondary School
26
Remembering Life at College or University
29
Reviewing Your Memory Joggers
30
Thinking About Your Educational Skills
42
Tackling Your Educational Skills Audit
45
Summary
3
Investigating Occupational Skills 46
46
Learning for Life
47
Professional or Occupational Qualifications
48
Recording Your Work History
49
Putting Yourself Into a Workstyle Category
50
Looking at Different Spheres of Work
61
Tackling Your Occupational Skills Audit
64
Summary

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Valuing Home-Based Skills 65
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The Changing Role of Women
66
The Complexities of Running a Home
67
Maintaining a Home
75
Managing a Household
80
Caring and Supporting Roles
83
Drawing Up Your Home-based Skills Audit
85
Summary
5
Exploring Pastime Skills 87
87
Considering Spare-Time Activities
88
Spotting Skills in Hobbies
94
Spotting Skills in Leisure Pursuits
97
Spotting Skills in Voluntary Work
101
Tackling Your Pastime Skills Audit
103
Summary
6
Evaluating Social Skills 104
105
Setting Up Your Cross-reference Audits
106
Communicating and Listening
111
Interacting and Coordinating
113
Negotiating and Holding Your Own
114
Encouraging and Supporting
116
Enabling and Advising
117
Leading and Directing
120
Completing Your Social Skills Audit
121
Summary
7
Recognising Portable Skills 122
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Portable Skills
123
Using Educational Skills as Pointers
124
Adapting Home-based Skills
128
Putting Pastime Skills to Other Uses
129
Seeing Occupational Skills as Multi-purpose Abilities
130
Coming to Terms With a Crisis
134
Completing Your Portable Skills Audit
135
Summary

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