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This highly practical resource for soft skills training facilitators strengthens safety culture, supports seafarer wellbeing and complements IMO model courses 1.39, 1.40 and 6.09. Straightforward language, clear diagrams, engaging ideas and helpful checklists combine to make this handbook essential reading for all facilitators of soft skills training and courses.
Soft skills complement the technical proficiencies and specialist industry knowledge built up over a long career. In recent years, demand for formal soft skills training has risen. The challenge for soft skills training course facilitators now is to ensure that their training and teaching techniques engage participants in a way that develops soft skills effectively, introduces context around their use and leaves a lasting positive impact on future working practices.
The handbook includes:
CONTENTS
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 What are hard and soft skills?
Chapter 2 Creating and maintaining an effective learning environment
Chapter 3 Peer learning and action planning
Chapter 4 Experiential learning
Chapter 5 Assessment
Chapter 6 Sensitive issues and reflection
Chapter 7 Evaluating your own practice
Chapter 8 Stakeholders
References
Glossary
About the author