Developing Soft Skills in Mariners: Handbook for Facilitators (1st Edition, 2024)

Developing Soft Skills in Mariners: Handbook for Facilitators (1st Edition, 2024)

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: 

• Soft skills definition and discussion
• Tips for creating effective learning environments
• Experiential learning and handling sensitive issues
• Facilitator assessment and evaluation methods

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