The Remarkable Lives Work Readiness Program curriculum helps new employees find success in the first 3-6 months of work, when turnover is often highest, by offering them the insights and skills needed to adjust to the social environment and pressure of work. This program uses cognitive behavioural instructional techniques to help customers develop:

1. Insight into personal beliefs which drive behaviours in their social lives;
2. Awareness of employers’ unspoken expectations;
3. Self-control skills for managing strong emotions;
4. Communication skills for dealing with difficult social interactions; and
5. Problem solving skills for logically resolving interpersonal workplace issues.

Summary of Curriculum

Part 1: How The Business World Works
Part 1 helps participants to familiarize themselves with the world of business and its pressures. An appreciation of this always helps to set the tone and raises the alertness of the participants.

Part 2: Building Self- Awareness
Part 2 focuses on self-awareness. It helps customers become aware of the underlying process by which beliefs, attitudes and perceptions drive behavioural choices (and the consequences which follow). It examines in detail those personal beliefs which apply to social and family situations, then goes on to explain how the same beliefs and behaviours that seem appropriate in one’s personal life can backfire in the world of work.

Part 3: Building Communication Skills
Part 3 focuses on communication skills. It teaches participants step-by-step strategies for keeping strong emotions in check, expressing complaints in a professional manner, and dealing effectively with criticism from customers, co-workers or supervisors. Skills and insights are dramatically role- played in specific work-related situations.

Part 4: Building Problem Solving Skills
Part 4 focuses on rational problem solving. It first helps participants simplify overwhelming situations by identifying useful, objective problem and goal statements. It then teaches them to avoid making false assumptions, and to analyze all possible choices before making an impulsive decision. Skills and insights are applied to specific work- related situations.

Part 5: Resume Writing and Interviewing Skills
Part 5 deals with a very important document that sells YOU. It’s a document that makes or break your opportunity of being granted an opportunity for an interview. This section deals with personal branding issues and interviewing skills.

Part 6: Money, Money and More Money
Part 6 deal with one of the most emotionally charged subject that of money. The program seeks to teach personal money management, gives an understanding of why people often don’t have money and how to get out of debt and investment.

Part7: Building Professional Behaviour At Work
Part 7 deals with an unstated, yet binding psychological contract that governs every action we personally take in our workplace. Discover the 13 elements that make up a professional person.

Part 8: Can Somebody Tell Me Why Do I Exist?
Part 8 deals with ordering human being’s private world. Often people want to know what their purpose is in this life How to find their mission in life. Discover the art of living in the 21st Century.

Duration:	15 days (5 days per week) - 3 months
Attendance:	One week per month
Alternatively:	One day a week for 15 weeks
Who should attend:	Prospective employees University students Out of school youth Employees and civil servants