Type Of Life Skill.

type of life skill

Life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable us to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life, in other words psychosocial competency.

They are various types of life skills which have been identified by  agencies such as WHO, UNICEF etc. Any life skills education programme  has two parts i.e. information and, skill development. There are ten  core life skills, which have been identified. World Health Organisation  (WHO) has categorized them into three components.

Let us now understand meaning of each life skill in detail.

Some of the important life skills identified through delphi method by WHO are:

1-Decision making.

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2-Problem solving..

3-Critical thinking/perspicacity.

4-Effective communication.

5-Interpersonal relationships.

1-Decision making skills:
Decision-making is a process to determine alternative and constructive solutions about problems.

2-Problem-solving

Critical thinkers tend to get away easily with tough situations in life due to their ability to weight the options of their actions. An efficient problem-solving attitude not only lets you come up with solutions to an issue, but also allows you to explore different possibilities in addressing the problem.

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3-Critical thinking skill:    
Critical thinking skill is an ability which helps to analyse  information and experiences in an objective manner. It also helps us to  evaluate the influence of decisions taken on our own values and values  of people who are near to us.Adolescents are most of the time influenced by media and peers. This  skill can assist them to assess the pros and cons of the situation and  help them to evaluate their actions.

4-Interpersonal skill    
Team work is required to the successful completion of a project. For  example, if you want to organise an exhibition in your school, then, who  all will provide you help? The Principal, your colleagues, or the  fellow students? The skill, which is required to co-ordinate work with  The involvement of the people, is called Interpersonal skill. This skill  helps an individual to relate in a positive way with fellow beings.
Development of this skill enables an individual/adolescent to be  accepted in the society. He/she also develops the acceptance of social  norms, which is essential to prevent an adolescent to follow delinquent  behaviour.

5-Effective communication.

Effective Communication is about more than just exchanging information. It's about understanding the emotion and intentions behind the information. Effective communication is also a two-way street. It’s not only how you convey a message so that it is received and understood by someone in exactly the way you intended, it’s also how you listen to gain the full meaning of what’s being said and to make the other person feel heard and understood.