Youth

From the very day that we were born, we never cease to learn whether formally or informally. However, most of us find it a challenge to motivate ourselves to learn and to be effective learners.

LearningKeys™ utilises a student-friendly personalised profile that can be administered online so that parents, teachers and counsellors can review together with students individually or in small groups.

Critical Thinking is an essential skill to survive and thrive in this fast-paced, technology-enhanced society. With the influx of information from the Internet, many youths have adopted a superficial sense of maturity with a know-it-all attitude. Due to the information overload, many are unable to process, understand and interpret the world around them comprehensively.

Design Thinking is a structured and creative way of problem solving with an emphasis on human-centric solutions. Originally devised as a systematic way to design interesting and functional products, Design Thinking has now diversified to be used in multiple fields, including the service line as Service Design Thinking.

The Dunn and Dunn Learning Styles Model, developed by the late Dr Rita Dunn and Dr Kenneth Dunn of St John’s University in New York, is one of the most well-researched learning style models in the world. With more than 30 years of research work with over 850 studies conducted in more than 135 institutions, it has a solid research base, along with ongoing studies of best practices in learning centres around the world. Every piece of research has consistently testified that when anyone is taught according to this model, their academic achievement improves, as does their attitude, self-discipline and outlook towards the future.

MotivationKeys™ with Effective Study Skills is designed to help students in the areas of personal and interpersonal effectiveness. It aims to enable students to better manage stress, time, priorities, intra-personal and inter-personal relationships.

Combined with effective study skills, students will be able to effectively cope with the demands of school, academic goals and personal lives through self-awareness and management.

LeadershipWorks™ is a comprehensive curriculum designed to expand each student’s leadership capacity. It is highly customisable to incorporate different leadership models such as The Student Leadership Challenge®, Habitudes®, Five Levels of Leadership, Servant Leadership, etc. and can be customised progressively over four levels in our Leadership Development Framework (Personal Leadership>Peer Leadership>People Leadership>Public Leadership).

Empowerment Camp is one of Lifeskills Institute’s turnkey leadership and self-awareness programmes. Centred around the frameworks of Servant Leadership, The Student Leadership Challenge (TSLC) and PersonalityKeys^TM (DISC), the programme is an impactful and experiential platform for life skills and leadership development for youth. Through modular design, the programme is highly customizable to suit the specific needs of any group.

A customised student version of The Leadership Challenge® by best-selling authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, this programme equips youths with comprehensive, practical tools to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, separateness into solidarity, and risks into rewards.

Leadership is an ongoing process whereby leaders grow and develop, and seek to develop others; hence, creating a cycle whereby mature leaders nurture newer leaders and so on. Peer Development Programme (PDP™) aims to help students develop their skills such as facilitation and enable them to become leadership reproducers.

The Service Leadership concept is based on the philosophy of “Servant Leadership” by Robert K. Greenleaf, defining a leader who is a servant first. Through Service Leadership, Lifeskills Institute endeavours to build students to become competent and compassionate leaders by helping them to serve the needs of others before self.

As any leader will tell you, growing and nurturing the next generation of leaders is not a simple task of just commanding and dictating but rather, one that stems from empowering and mentoring. Helping student leaders to develop the skills necessary to nurture the next generation of leaders is vital in creating an effective leadership culture and ensure future continuity in an organisation.

P.O.E.M Way of Project Management is one of Lifeskills Institute’s well-received leadership development programmes where professional project management skills are imparted and demonstrated to the student leaders.

TeachingKeys™ focuses on a strategy of self-discovery, followed by teaching methodologies. It offers an innovative strength-based approach that enables teachers to identify, appreciate and capitalise on their natural learning and teaching strengths to facilitate learning in a classroom of students with diverse learning style preferences.

This certification programme is a partnership between Lifeskills Institute and The Institute for Motivational Living (IML), a proven leader in the field of Behavioural Analysis and one of the world’s largest publishers of the DISC Personality Profiling Tool and motivational resources. Educators who go through this certification programme will be equipped to help individuals through behavioural and career counselling.

CareerKeys™ for Educators aims to equip educators with skills to assist students construct their personal roadmap to career success. This is done through the use of self-assessment instruments and interactive exercises to uncover their personal distinctiveness. In this programme, educators will be equipped with the knowledge of using these instruments to assist in their student’s career exploration.

Coaching with The Leadership Challenge® (CTLC) is designed to enhance one’s leadership development using the well-researched framework and tools from The Leadership Challenge® (TLC) by bestselling authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. Approaching leadership as measurable, learnable and teachable set of behaviours, this proven leadership model proclaims “Leadership is Everyone’s Business”.