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Lifelong Learning

A new series - Lifelong Learning: Personal Effectiveness Guides, by Rosalie Marsh is now available.

With a continuing heavy focus on skills level in the UK, the concept of lifelong learning is gathering pace. This is not a new 'Buzz Word'. It has been around for many years and simply is what it says: Learning is lifelong because life is a learning experience. With this in mind and conscious that many do not have formal training opportunities, Christal are publishing a series of easy to read books which will guide you through the minefield of personal effectiveness in life in general and your career;enabling you to realise your potential. Designed as a support material for a wide range of learners in a wide range of settings, both formal and informal, this Lifelong Learning:Personal Effectiveness series of guides aims to take some of the mystery out of new experiences and challenges which face us in the drive to raise skills levels and the economic prosperity of the nation.

Aimed at the home learner and designed to read in bite-sized chunks; someone who is unable to attend formal courses or, indeed, where no formal course in college can meet the underpinning knowledge and skills needed to 'get on in life'.
Suitable for Professional and Vocational learners of various levels, all books are available in print and e-book formats. 

Initially, the series looks at the background to lifelong learning and some research into various viewpoints.
Lifelong Learning:A View from the Coal Face ISBN 978-1-908302-04-5

Following this is an introductionto how to structure your continuing personal development. The basic principles here can be applied to any level in various degrees of complexity. Therefore the book will be suitable for a cross-section of ages and occupations.
Release your Potential - Making Sense of Personal and Professional Development ISBN 978-1-908302-08-3

Other books are planned in a cross-section of disciplines and topics. All aimed at helping learners to grow, develop and succeed. Some examples:
  • Skills for Employability. Part One. Pre-Employment ISBN 978-1-908302-16-8 To be publlished May 2012
  • Skills for Employability. Part Two.Moving into Employment
  • Talking the Talk -  Getting the Message Across
  • Customer? What Customer? - Some Basic Essentials in Customer Service

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All titles are now available for download as e-books.Amazon Kindle/Kindle Apps.
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In two parts, Skills for Employability - designed to read in bite-sized chunks - will focus on some of the skills needed in order to impress an employer, stand out from the rest, become employed, and enhance your future.

Part One looks at the pre- employment skills needed. Part Two looks at what you need to know when you move into employment.
 Each chapter details the learning outcomes and relevance to other qualifications such as Functional Skills. Through short practical activities, you will be able to see how far you have travelled in gaining knowledge and understanding. 

Part One: Pre-employment looks at those skills for the future, which include:

Preparing for work. Job applications and a successful interview. Working effectively in the workplace. ICT skills in the workplace.

 Some of the benefits of Skills for Employability. Pre-Employment:

  • User-friendly. Can work at your own pace.
  • Raised self-esteem and confidence.
  • An increased awareness of the standards of behaviour and requirements of employers.
  • An awareness and understanding of the business environment.

Whom is this book for?

  • School leavers; 16-18 yr old unemployed; returners to work; learners seeking a change of employment, wishing to enhance their prospects or, are between jobs.
  • Aimed at the home learner,  someone who is unable to attend formal courses, and as a resource for formal learning programmes.
  • To fill gaps in underpinning knowledge and skills needed to get on in life.
Published 1st September 2011
Lifelong Learning: A View from the Coal Face  
ISBN 978-1-908302-04-5  
The first in a new series - Lifelong Learning:Personal Effectiveness - this book revisits research carried out  in 1999/2000 which examined:
  • Lifelong learning
  • Its meaning
  • The governments of the day's perspective and aspirations for the future
  • The experiences of a cross-section of professionals and educators when they were at school
  • The effects of the educational policies of the day on their progress then and that of their employees.
The research is brought up-to-date with a reflection of 'where we are now' and reference to the Wolf Report. It brings a new perspective and focus to this very relevant issue today.
                       

Published on 1st September 2011
Release Your Potential: 
Making Sense of Personal and Professional Development
ISBN: 978-1-908302-08-3
You are having a career change; you are looking to get into employment; you are looking to simply become more effective in your present role but don't know how to go about improving your skills.
Release Your Potential will help you to:
  • Identify what you know now and need to know in order to improve
  • Look  at how you learn best
  • Make best use of your time
  • Handle stress
  • Plan how you will achieve your goals
  • Develop and maintain a Personal Development Portfolio
                      
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