Welcome to SkillsYouNeed

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Here at SkillsYouNeed we are passionate about developing articles, pages and resources that help you to learn and practise the skills you need to make the most of everyday life.  Whether you are a job seeker, a student, a teacher, a parent or just interested in developing your key skills you will find a wealth of information about the essential life skills that can help you to improve many aspects of both your personal and professional life.  We hope you find your visit rewarding and that you’ll tell others about us.

All our content is free and we hope you find it valuable.  We are not trying to sell you anything, just offer sound help and advice on how you may go about developing key life skills.  As with many websites we do rely on on-site advertising to cover our essential costs, if you use an ad blocker then we would appreciate you turning it off for the duration of your stay.

We are still a young web service and working on new content all the time.  If you cannot find what you are looking for then drop us a line or check back soon – more content is on the way.

We welcome thousands of visitors from around the world every week.  We appreciate your support and encouragement – thanks for visiting.  As we are a British website we use British spelling and measurement systems.

SkillsYouNeed is split into six distinct sections:

Personal Skills | Interpersonal Skills | Presentation Skills | Leadership Skills
Numeracy Skills and Writing Skills

Personal Skills

Personal skills are the skills you need to maintain a healthy body and mind. These skills are essential building blocks for all other skills. Learn some key skills that will help you feel more energised, feel better about yourself, be more motivated and increase your self confidence.

Our pages on nutrition cover the basics of diet and maintaining a healthy body.

Develop your understanding of: Protein, Fat and Carbohydrates
Learn more about: Fibre, Vitamins and Minerals
Discover the links between: Stress, Nutrition and Diet

Look after your mind and feel better - discover our pages on:

Time Management and Removing Distractions
Avoiding Stress and Anger Management
Assertiveness and Confidence

Interpersonal & Communication Skills

These are the skills we use when dealing with other people, either as individuals or in groups.  We all have interpersonal skills but most people recognise that some people are better than others at utilising them.

Learn how you might develop your Interpersonal Skills, essential to all relationships, personal and professional; including:

Presentation Skills

Learn how to plan, organise, write and deliver a presentation.  Follow our tips and step-by-step guide to improve your presentation skills and reduce your nerves. Start with: What is a Presentation?

Leadership Skills

Whether we like it or not, at some point in our lives we will almost certainly need some fundamental leadership skills.  Learn how to become more charismatic and a successful leader. What is Charisma? | A Leader is not the same as a Manager

Writing Skills

The ability to write coherently and correctly is important both in business and in your personal life.  We provide a number of articles to help improve your writing, from spelling and grammar to clichés that should be avoided and tips for gender neutral writing. Visit our Writing Skills section for lots more.

Numeracy Skills

The word ‘mathematics’ is scary for a lot of people; many people have a far less than perfect understanding of basic numeracy and maths.  By developing some basic numeracy skills you can save time and money – analyse and understand data and as a result improve your well-being.   Follow our articles and real-life examples on arithmetic and basic use of statistics.

Brush up on your arithmetic: Addition | Subtraction | Multiplication | Division learn about Percentages and Averages.