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- - Communication Skills
- Emotional Intelligence
- Conflict Resolution and Mediation Skills
- Customer Service Skills
- - Team-Working, Groups and Meetings
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The Skills You Need Guide to Interpersonal Skills




Guide to Personal and Romantic Relationships
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- - Leading People
- Change Management
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What Sort of Leader are You? Quiz
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The Skills You Need Guide to Leadership




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- WRITING SKILLS
- - Grammar: An Introduction
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The Skills You Need Guide to Numeracy
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# **SKILLS YOU NEED**
## Develop The Skills You Need For Life

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Welcome. Here at SkillsYouNeed, we're passionate about providing high quality information and resources that help you learn and develop the skills you need to make the most of everyday life.

Whether you're at work, a job seeker, student, teacher or parent, or just interested in developing your key skills, you will find plenty of information here about essential life skills. We hope that this information and these resources will help you to improve your personal and professional life.

We also hope you find your visit rewarding and tell others about us.

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## Finding the Skills You Need

SkillsYouNeed is split into the eight distinct sections (see below).

Or use our Search to find what you’re looking for:

###### Personal Skills (242)

***A - Z List of Personal Skills***

Perhaps the most fundamental of all skills are those concerned with self-preservation - that is, staying healthy in both body and mind.

This section of SkillsYouNeed covers some simple ideas that can help you maintain a healthy lifestyle. It also provides information to help you learn, such as **The Importance of Mindset**, and develop your character, for example, **Learning to Use your Moral Compass** and the basics of **Emotional Intelligence**.

Ebooks:

**The Skills You Need Guide to Life**

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**The Skills You Need Guide to Personal Development**

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**The Skills You Need Guide to Stress and Stress Management**

###### Interpersonal Skills (171)

***A - Z List of Interpersonal Skills***

Interpersonal skills are the life skills we use every day to communicate and interact with other people, both individually and in groups.

People who have worked on developing strong interpersonal skills are usually more successful in both their professional and personal lives. From **Interpersonal Communication Skills**, including **Listening**, through to **Building Rapport** and **Persuasion**, you should find all you need to improve your Interpersonal Skills.

Ebooks:

**The Skills You Need Guide to Interpersonal Skills**

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**The Skills You Need Guide to Personal and Romantic Relationships**

###### Leadership Skills (107)

***A - Z List of Leadership Skills***

The ability to lead effectively is based on a number of key skills. These skills are highly sought by employers as they involve dealing with people in such a way as to motivate, enthuse and build respect.

Our Leadership Skills section has both theory, for example, **What is a Leader?**, **Leadership Styles** and **Ethical Leadership**, and more practical information, such as **Project Management Skills**.

Ebooks:

**The Skills You Need Guide to Leadership**

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**Self Employment and Running Your Own Business**

###### Learning Skills (80)

***A - Z List of Learning Skills***

Learning how to learn effectively is one of the most crucial skills in personal development.

This section provides some theory on learning, including pages on **Learning Styles** and **Lifelong Learning**.

Also the skills that you will need for studying, starting with our **Study Skills**page, and for helping others to learn, including **Coaching** and **Mentoring Skills**.

Ebooks:

**The Skills You Need Guide for Students**

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**The Skills You Need Guide to Coaching and Mentoring**

###### Presentation Skills (23)

***A - Z List of Presentation Skills***

Presenting information clearly and effectively is key to getting your message or opinion across and, today, presentation skills are required in almost every field.

This section covers all you need to prepare and give great presentations, from **What is a Presentation?** to **Overcoming Presentation Nerves**. It also contains information about handling specialised presentations, such as **Press Conferences** and **Lectures and Seminars**.

###### Writing Skills (50)

***A - Z List of Writing Skills***

Good writing skills allow you to communicate your message with clarity and ease to a far larger audience than through face-to-face or telephone conversations.

This section is designed to provide the information that you need to communicate effectively in writing. It covers both basic writing skills, such as **Spelling**,**Grammar**, and **Punctuation**, and more advanced information such as **Writing a Business Case** or **Preparing a Report**.

###### Numeracy Skills (80)

***A - Z List of Numeracy Skills***

Numeracy skills are not just for scientists, accountants and the tax man. Many professions require at least a basic level of understanding when it comes to numeracy and mathematics.

This section is designed to help you develop or brush up on your basic and more advanced numeracy, from **Addition** and **Subtraction**, through to **Fractions**, **Understanding Percentages**, and **Money Management and Financial Skills**.

Ebooks:

**The Skills You Need Guide to Numeracy**

###### Parenting Skills (80)

***A - Z List of Parenting Skills***

Parenting effectively is often described as one of the biggest challenges in life, as well as one of the most rewarding experiences.

Our Parenting Skills pages are designed to help you through some of the ongoing challenges of everyday life with children both large and small, from **Preparing for Parenthood**, through **Looking After Your Baby**, to **Entertaining Children and Toddlers** and finally to **Parenting Teenagers**.

###### Our Blog

Our user contribution blog, Rhubarb, contains articles and discussions written by you - our readers.

Browse our blog and be inspired to contribute something yourself.

**Latest blog posts:**

- Can’t Find a Job? You Can Always Create Your Own
- The Empathy Algorithm: Why Soft Skills Will Outlast Hard Skills in the AI Age
- How Successful Medical Practice Leaders Think About Staffing Differently

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### Quotes

*Snippets of wisdom from Skills You Need*

- > Charismatic people are both interesting, others want to listen to what they have to say, and interested, they want to listen to what others have to say.

###### From our page:What is Charisma?
- > Talking to others about problems is not only therapeutic but can help you see things from a different point of view, opening up more potential solutions.

###### From our page:Problem Solving Skills
- > People with higher emotional intelligence find it easier to form and maintain interpersonal relationships and to ‘fit in’ to group situations.

###### Learn more on our page:Emotional Intelligence
- > When thinking about your lifetime goals, make them challenging and exciting, base them on your strengths but make them relevant to you and ultimately achievable.

###### From our page:Self Motivation

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### TRENDING PAGES ON SKILLS YOU NEED

- #### BMI - BODY MASS INDEX
What does your BMI tell you about yourself? Use our calculator to find out.###### From our Personal Skills section.
- #### NEGOTIATION SKILLS
Learn more about negotiation and become a better negotiator at work and home.###### From our Interpersonal Skills section.
- #### LEADERSHIP STYLES
Find out about the different styles of leadership - what sort of leader are you?###### From our Leadership Skills section.
- #### HOW TO WRITE A LETTER
Is letter writing a dying art? Find out how to write a letter.###### From our Writing Skills section.
- #### PERCENTAGE CALCULATORS
Need to work out some percentages? Use our calculators and examples to help.###### From our Numeracy Skills section.

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### QUIZZES ON SKILLS YOU NEED
#### Develop your skills with our interactive quizzes

- #### INTERPERSONAL SKILLS SELF ASSESSMENT
Learn more about how good your interpersonal skills are and where you can improve.
- #### WHAT SORT OF LEADER ARE YOU?
Discover your default leadership style, how to make the most of it and how to develop new leadership traits.

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#### MEET THE TEAM

We're a small team of avid lifelong learners who want to help others to learn and develop.

Our aim with Skills You Need is to provide information that will help you, our readers, to develop their skills, and make the most of life.

For more about us, see - Meet the Team

- #### Matthew

Matthew is CEO and in charge of the day-to-day running of Skills You Need.
- #### Melissa

Melissa is our head writer, with an MBA and previous experience in government.
- #### Jane

Jane is experienced in education marketing and manages social media and guest posts.
- #### Paul

Paul is an expert in personal development and a successful author and entrepreneur.



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Our mission is simple:

"*To help you lead a happier more fulfilling life and reach your potential.*"

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We aim to provide quality, accessible help and advice about how you might go about developing key life skills and reaching your full potential.

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