Top 5 Skills For Your Apprenticeship & Beyond
This week is National Apprenticeship Week in the UK! The theme for National Apprenticeship Week 2023 is "Skills for Life", highlighting the role apprenticeships can play in developing competencies that will help you in your career and beyond.
What are the must-have skills to lead a successful and content life? Check them out below along with relevant Community resources that will help you build on these skills.
Keep in mind that these are all skills that you can continuously build on. They’re not by any means things that we’re “born” with that we cannot develop. Use the resources below as a starting point and look for opportunities in your daily life to help you practice these skills!
1) Communication
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As social creatures, we influence and inspire those around us by understanding the needs of the audience we’re speaking to and communicating effectively. Therefore, being able to share your ideas and feelings effectively via written, spoken or body language is essential in all areas of our lives. |
Dealing with a Challenging Boss | by Jessica Okonkwo How to Increase Your Visibility at Work | by Lucy Levy Making Digital Content Accessible to All | by Vanessa Mendao |
Accelerate: Confidence and Public Speaking with comedian and actor, Maddy Anholt |
2) Self-Awareness
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Being aware of our own emotions and thoughts have a positive impact on not only ourselves but also those around us. By being in tune with ourselves, we can notice thought patterns that are holding us back from achieving our goals and provide us with the space to grow. The more we’re in touch with ourselves, the more likely we’ll have empathy for those around us as well! |
Our Faceless Enemies: Negative Beliefs & Low Self-Esteem | by Amor Kebbe Can Connecting to Your Values Change Your Life? | by Melissa O'Carroll |
Amplified: Improve your emotional intelligence with Farah Harris |
3) Problem-solving
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In today’s day and age where information is readily available to us via the internet, memorisation can get us only so far. We need to be effective problem-solvers to add value to our workplace. By developing our problem-solving skills, we can break unstructured problems into pieces and find creative solutions to tackle them effectively. |
What’s Really Needed to ‘Excel’ in the Data World? by Jessica Okonkwo The Digital Marketer's Guide to Coding | by Jade De-Terville Martin To Infinity and Beneath: Unreasonably Big Calculations in JavaScript | by Simon Haines |
Skills studio: Creative problem-solving |
4) Time Management
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Time is perhaps the most important currency we have. Therefore, managing it effectively is key to leading a satisfied life where we can have time for the things that we care about. Just like any other skill, this is one that we can develop by using the right techniques and staying committed to applying them! |
Why You Should Eat More Frogs | by Jessica Okonkwo Timeboxing: The Tool to Maximise your Time and Apprenticeship | by Sean Patten Balancing Work, your Apprenticeship - and Maybe a Social Life Too! By Elle Birrell King |
Skills studio: Managing Oneself: Time Management & Prioritisation |
5) Growth Mindset
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What did we say at the beginning of this guide? You can build on these skills by dedicating enough time and effort. This is essentially what growth-mindset is all about: Believing that you can develop your skills with effort. Nobody comes to this world with stellar communication or coding skills. The more you’re open to the possibility of growing, the more you will let yourself flourish in different areas of your life! |
You Think You Messed Up? Don’t Catastrophise | by Jordon Ricketts |
Stack’d: How to make better coding habits and work smarter |
Which of these skills do you use the most in your apprenticeship? Comment below!
This article has been curated by the Multiverse Community Team.