Personal Skills Courses

Personal-Skills: Overview

Personal skills are an essential part of most working environments. All organisations today need to be fast, flexible and focused. Employers look for workers who have the skills, tendencies and attributes that help to keep productivity and profits up. There is a great emphasis on personal responsibility and initiative.

Improving your personal skills will help you to manage yourself effectively and work productively with others. This is critical to both your professional success and the success of your organisation.

Key personal skills:

• Cooperation
• Creativity
• Discipline
• Good Attitude
• Influence
• Optimism
• Sociability

Training in personal skills could help with reducing the chance for costly errors, as well as keeping a steady workflow going.

Expected Salary

• £18,000 - £25,000 - Starting salaries
• £30 - £50 per hour - Private practitioners
• £30,000 - £40,000 - Salaries at senior level/with experience

Training

With personal skills training, you could learn to:

• Maximise the productivity and effectiveness of your organisation
• Work with different personalitiy types
• Maintain focus under pressure
• Build productive working relationships
• Build a developemnt plan
• Develop teamwork skills

Underoak lists many short courses to aid you in your career progression. These may be funded individually or through your company. To search these courses, simply type the relevant key words and click on ‘request further information’ to send your enquiry direct to the trainer.

Core Skills

There are no minimum academic entry qualifications, and much of the training takes place on the job. Personal skills can be continually improved.

Job Sites

Average working hours per week

Job Spotlight

Counsellor

The Role

Counsellors do not give advice, but help clients to make their own choices within the framework of an agreed counselling contract.

Across most areas of counselling, typical work activities include:

• A relationship of trust and respect with clients
• Encouraging clients to talk about issues they feel they cannot normally share with others
• Actively listening to client concerns and empathising with their position
• Accepting without bias the issues raised by clients
• Helping clients towards a deeper understanding of their concerns
• Challenging any inconsistencies in what clients say or do
• Helping clients to make decisions and choices regarding possible ways forward
• Referring clients to other sources of help, as appropriate
• Attending supervision and training courses
• Undertaking personal therapy (mandatory for accreditation)
• Liasing, as necessary, with other agencies and individuals to help effect change based on the issues raised by clients
• Keeping records

Salary:

Salaries vary between £30,000 - £40,000 depending on exprience