Create Your Future Activity Week 3: Boost ONE Life Skill Of Your Choice

This Young Professional activity for Week 3 of the Create Your Future programme will help you boost one of the top life and work skills. You already have these skills. You choose which skill to boost!

Week 3: Build Your Life Skills

Are you ready for this week’s Young Professional activity to help you Create Your Future? Let’s get started!

To get the most out of this activity, make sure you are signed up to Create Your Future. It’s a six-week online course designed to help you boost your skills and careers confidence in a way that brings positive change into your life.

Activity: Do ONE thing this week to build the life skill you most need to improve. You choose the skill!

The top skills for life (and work) are:

Look at the list. Which skill do you find easiest? Which skill do you find hardest?

Click the link for the skill you find hardest. You will find lots of Young Professional insights and challenges designed to help you get to grips with that skill.

Pick one insight/challenge and make time to reflect on it and take part in any activities described.

In this way you will have done one thing this week to work on the life skill which YOU have decided you most need to improve. The power is in your hands!

Congratulations! You’ve completed your Young Professional activity for Week 3 of Create Your Future!

Create Your Future Activities – Week 3

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This Young Professional challenge is part of your Week 3 activities for Create Your Future.

Create Your Future is a FREE skills and confidence boosting programme brought to you by The Careers And Enterprise Company and Youth Employment UK. Sign up for six weeks of exploring your strengths and getting ahead in the game of life!

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