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Green Jobs of the Future
Explore the jobs of the future, the core transferable skills they require and the importance of green jobs
Interview success
Help older students understand how to sell their strengths in an interview and get practice perfecting answers to typical interview questions.
Embedding employability across the curriculum
It’s a fast-moving world for students, and it’s crucial that educators remain up to date on what external help there is out there to open up the world of work to students – and LifeSkills can help.
Interview skills
Help students equip themselves with the tools to prepare for interviews, so they can perfect their technique and impress employers.
The essential skills for enterprise success
For young people today, aspiring to set up a business is becoming more and more popular and it’s not hard to see why. In a world of increasing economic uncertainty, carving out your own path can seem like a more rewarding prospect.
Creativity
Introduce and practise creative thinking skills that can help students stand out at school and at work.
Adaptability
Adaptability skills can help young people manage unexpected changes in their working life. Read more about adaptive thinking in this lesson.
Leadership
Good leadership styles and effective teamwork can help students excel in their future workplace. Read more about team leader skills in this lesson.
Problem solving
Help students develop problem solving skills utilising a clear 6-step process adapted from computational thinking used for coding.
Aiming high (proactivity)
Being proactive can help students aim high for opportunities, as well as help them on the way to achieving their future goals.
Staying positive (resilience)
Staying positive and learning through experience are key to succeeding in challenging situations. Try this lesson and help your students succeed at work.
Managing money and budgeting
This lesson covers how understanding budgeting and saving regularly can help with effective money management.
Listening and speaking (communication)
Understanding the different types and styles of communication is crucial to success in the workplace. Discover how to develop these skills in young people.
Being enterprising
This lesson highlights how a mix of skills, a positive mindset and perseverance can help pupils to be more enterprising.
Help your students become expert problem solvers
Find out about the 6-step process we’ve created to help support young people in developing their problem solving skills.
Dealing with financial dilemmas
Encourage students to consider attitudes to money, common money-related mistakes and threats, and how to safeguard financial information.
Using numbers in hobbies and sports
These activities explore the value of maths and how it’s useful in everyone’s daily life, not just for school. They show pupils how they use maths in hobbies and sports.
Confidence and wellbeing
Teach primary aged children about confidence and wellbeing with this free lesson plan from Barclays LifeSkills
Building confidence and assertiveness
Help students improve confidence, self-esteem, resilience and motivation.
CV skills lesson one: Writing a successful CV
Help students understand the purpose of a CV and explore ways they can make themselves stand out from the crowd.