Thinking skills & Money advice

Developing Your Thinking Skills

Do you find it difficult to organise your thoughts regarding moving into work?

Do you find thinking about moving from benefits to work overwhelming?

Do you find your thoughts about work result in extreme emotions?

Said ‘Yes’ to the above? Skillsmax can offer you a short course to address this

Developing your Thinking Skills:

Aimed at those who require assistance understanding how their thinking skills affects their efforts to move into work, Focusing On:

Black & White Thinking – seeing everything in extremes, no middle ground
Mental Filtering – only seeing negative aspects, only seeing what is wrong
Over Generalization – believing results of a situation will predict all future results
Jumping to conclusions – predicting the outcome or future based on beliefs
Emotional reasoning – believing something must be true, based on beliefs
Personalizing – blaming yourself for situations outside your control
Magnification or Minimisation – most often related to own qualities and needs

Learn how to:

Identify thinking patterns and styles
Keep positive & stay in the moment
Control your own responses
Link your thoughts to your feelings

In addition, there will be opportunities daily to assist with:

Job Search, Job Applications, Interview Skills, Developing a CV, Cover Letters

Developing Your Thinking Skills is aimed at those who need additional support in making sense of how their own thinking affects their efforts moving into work.

The programme is designed to be flexible and personalised, suitable for those with anxieties about making changes in their lives and those who have barriers in accessing formal personal development support.

The programme is for 2 days per week for 5 weeks : 10am – 2pm

Making Sense of Your Money

Aimed at those who require assistance in making sense of their money – benefits, salary and budgeting – to help them prepare to move into work.

Focusing On:

Making sense of personal budgets when moving into work
Exploring and addressing the possible effect of the Benefits Cap
How to compile a Pros and Cons list when moving into work
Understanding In Work benefits
Increasing budgeting skills
Access to organisations available to help with saving money
Increasing awareness of financial scams
Increasing understanding of legal rights relating to personal finance
Use of ICT tools for budgeting
Better off calculations when moving into work

Sessions to include:

How Universal Credit works for variable hours contracts
Reducing reliance on Housing Benefit
Financial impacts related to self employment

In addition, there will be opportunities daily to assist with:

Job Search and making applications
Interview Skills
Developing an effective CV

Making Sense of Your Money is aimed at those who need additional support in making sense of how they will manage financially when moving into work.

The programme is designed to be flexible, personalised and inclusive, suitable for those with anxieties about making changes in their lives and those who have confidence barriers to accessing formal budgeting support.

The programme is for 2 days per week for 5 weeks : 10am – 3pm

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Developing Your Thinking Skills

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Do you find it difficult to organise your thoughts regarding moving into work?

Do you find thinking about moving from benefits to work overwhelming?

Do you find your thoughts about work result in extreme emotions?

Said ‘Yes’ to the above? Skillsmax can offer you a short course to address this

Developing your Thinking Skills:

Aimed at those who require assistance understanding how their thinking skills affects their efforts to move into work, Focusing On:

Black & White Thinking – seeing everything in extremes, no middle ground

Mental Filtering – only seeing negative aspects, only seeing what is wrong

Over Generalization – believing results of a situation will predict all future results

Jumping to conclusions – predicting the outcome or future based on beliefs

Emotional reasoning – believing something must be true, based on beliefs

Personalizing – blaming yourself for situations outside your control

Magnification or Minimisation – most often related to own qualities and needs

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Learn how to:

Identify thinking patterns and styles

Keep positive & stay in the moment

Control your own responses

Link your thoughts to your feelings

In addition, there will be opportunities daily to assist with:

Job Search, Job Applications, Interview Skills, Developing a CV, Cover Letters

Developing Your Thinking Skills is aimed at those who need additional support in making sense of how their own thinking affects their efforts moving into work.

The programme is designed to be flexible and personalised, suitable for those with anxieties about making changes in their lives and those who have barriers in accessing formal personal development support.

The programme is for 2 days per week for 5 weeks : 10am – 2pm

Making Sense of Your Money

Aimed at those who require assistance in making sense of their money – benefits, salary and budgeting – to help them prepare to move into work.

Focusing On:

Making sense of personal budgets when moving into work

Exploring and addressing the possible effect of the Benefits Cap

How to compile a Pros and Cons list when moving into work

Understanding In Work benefits

Increasing budgeting skills

Access to organisations available to help with saving money

Increasing awareness of financial scams

Increasing understanding of legal rights relating to personal finance

Use of ICT tools for budgeting

Better off calculations when moving into work

Sessions to include:

How Universal Credit works for variable hours contracts

Reducing reliance on Housing Benefit

Financial impacts related to self employment

In addition, there will be opportunities daily to assist with:

Job Search and making applications

Interview Skills

Developing an effective CV

Making Sense of Your Money is aimed at those who need additional support in making sense of how they will manage financially when moving into work.

The programme is designed to be flexible, personalised and inclusive, suitable for those with anxieties about making changes in their lives and those who have confidence barriers to accessing formal budgeting support.

The programme is for 2 days per week for 5 weeks : 10am – 3pm