It is important that education and vocational training system to be relevant to the involvement of the private sector. In addition, to prepare the youth for the world of work in the sense of good career guidance and counselling.
In order to improve the employability of youth, the individual and organisational capacities of schools, the Employment Agency and local employment offices, as well as private sector companies and institutions. The active engagement of companies in vocational education and training, the introduction of school development plans, the integration of labour market-relevant regular and extracurricular offers in secondary and vocational schools, and the organisation and development of the employment agency support the reforms in the partner organisations.
The Aim - Boosting employment of the skilled workforce and self-employed, especially, of skilled youth, in the labour market.
The Method consists of coaching trained teachers in delivering the training to the students or the staff of the business.
Preparing the students for the work based learning observation and assessment of the soft skills, and how to develop them, in order to identify what their lack is and how to develop the right skills they have.
Offering soft skills training in a session, interfered through the teaching one helps the teachers and students or the staff of the companies, show high interactivity and good involvement, and what is more important, there will be identified and developed the following soft skills:
- Communication (verbal / nonverbal / written)
- Problem Solving
- Team work
- Listening (Active / Selective / Emphatic / Ignoring
- Decision-making
- Motivation
- Independence / Dependence
- Initiative
- Patience
- Concentration
- Punctuality
Transferability - On one side, developing their communication skills, students or the staff of the companies will be empowered to express themselves more clearly, listen more actively and attentively, and achieve better outcomes from difficult conversations. In this way, that helps all the interested people know, how to ask questions, how to read body language and how to talk to people in many contexts. Also, listening to words is not enough, a good listener has to pay attention to the non-verbal communication of the speaker, displaying respect to other’s view point. Furthermore, the best problem solvers anticipate potential future problems and act to prevent them.
On the other side, it will be given an importance to the presentation content of the exercises and the observation of activities, which will help the participants (teachers & students & staff) give a short feedback.
It will emerge from the exercises what their strengths and weaknesses are, how they can be transformed in strengths and how they can be implemented as well as they can.
Some of the exercises
- Frobel Tower
- Silent picture
- Marble run
- Shared flat
- Highest tower
- Marshmallow
- Bridge in the darkness
Some of the energizers
- Lego block
- Chain Communication (nonverbal)
- Pyramid
- Elephant and Palma
- Writing with a marker tied with 3,4 pieces of ropes apart
There can be used also other exercises and energizers, found on internet.
Innovator: Irma Lohja, Albanian Vocational Training Center "QENDRA E FORMIMIT PROFESIONAL PUBLIK"