For Businesses
HOW ESSENTIAL PERSONAL LIFE SKILLS FIT WITH WHAT EMPLOYERS WANT AND NEED FROM THEIR EMPLOYEES
Surveys from businesses* regarding the top skills they look for in their new hires and expect to see from their current employees include some or all of the 12 essential personal life skills listed here:
People may have great academic and technical knowledge, but they can also be terrible employees if they lack emotional intelligence! Surprisingly, many employers rank these “soft” skills higher than the “hard” skills learned through formal post-secondary education. Academic skills are important, but, in many cases, are not as highly sought after by employers as essential personal life skills. These skills are teachable, and the earlier and more often they are taught, the better the students’ lives will become. These skills fall into the following four categories: knowing me; managing me; understanding others; and relating to others.
Society has decided that formal education is important for everyone to learn academic subjects like reading, writing and arithmetic; but what makes essential personal life skills any less important?
We believe that essential personal life skills are as important as academics, that they are teachable, and that schools should teach these skills as a stand-alone subject, just as academic subjects are taught.
All parents want their children to do well in school, get good jobs and have healthy, happy relationships. Sadly, too many people don’t learn the essential personal life skills they need, either at school or from their parents, that make success in these areas possible.
Employers want their employees to have these skills, and parents want their children to get and keep good jobs -- so why are ESSENTIAL PERSONAL LIFE SKILLS not being taught in all our schools? Is it not in everyone’s best interest to teach ESSENTIAL PERSONAL LIFE SKILLS as a stand-alone subject?
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
If you agree that essential personal life skills should be taught in schools, please click below to acknowledge your agreement, and provide your email address. We would love to be able to prove to legislators that this is vitally important to parents, to their children and to their future employers.
If you are a business owner or manager, please click HERE for a business endorsement that we’d love for you to review and sign, and then email to us. Your acknowledgment and feedback will help us bring greater attention to this urgent need to mandate teaching essential personal life skills as part of our children’s school curriculum. This will ultimately help you to have the workforce you want and deserve.
Please also go back to our home page and take a look at the chart for some samples of common problems that can be avoided if people learned how to apply these essential personal life skills to their lives.