Live2Work - Content overview of the toolbox

Dimension
Pre Tools

To achieve

These activities should be applied to start the programme in its totality or as a single activity. Apply these tools as the first step to set and balance expectation toward the program’s goal and create ownership and commitment in the group.

This will enable participants to go back during the programme and check that they are on the right track and pace to achieve their goals set for the programme.

Activities and Tools

Activity 1A Individual Contract
Activity 1B Group Contract

Dimension
Self Knowledge

To achieve

These activities can be applied to clarify and identify values that can support the participant in creating meaning, interest, and importance in life and to find future focus and goals.

They can also help to identify and work with character strengths in order to thrive better, be more confident, increase self-esteem, get more energy and zest, experience less stress, perform better, be more committed, get better at achieving goals, develop faster, and achieve lasting improvements.

The activities can Increase self-efficacy and confidence to act upon interests. Interviewing for strengths and resources creates awareness of others and one’s own strengths, enhances listening skills and openness.

Activities and Tools

Activity 2 My Values – Image Cards
Activity 3 My Life Values by Self-Assessment
Activity 4 Character Strength Cards – Solitaire
Activity 5 Strengths by Storytelling
Activity 6 VIA Online Assessment
Activity 7 Strength Spotting Interview

Dimension
World Knowledge

To achieve
These activities can stimulate curiosity, creativity, and exploitation in identifying realistic future professional opportunities or educational preferences. The activities can also help identify occupations, interests for value, and interest-driven occupational goals. The tools for the identification and promotion of one’s social network that can support one in various future pathways and goals. Increasing self-efficacy by identifying and finding good role models will motivate the participant along the process of change.
Activities and Tools
Activity 8 Self-Assessment for exploration of interest – Steps to identify future career paths Activity 9 Competence Tree Activity 10 Exploration of Occupations Activity 11 Mapping Network Relations (step 1) Activity 12 Identifying Role Models and Support (step 2)

Dimension
Transitional Skills

To achieve
These activities can help the participant become more aware of the ones positive emotions that can support the development of resilience, optimism, hope, and creativity. The activities help to challenge and master one’s behaviour to adapt actions related to one’s future goals, enhancing self-efficacy, resilience and creating hope, motivation, and behavioural changes. These activities can also be helpful in creating better understanding and communication and enhance the tolerance to differences in different situations and people.
Activities and Tools
Activity 13 Learning Positive Emotions Activity 14 Learning the Power of Thoughts – The Diamond Activity 15 Challenging Thoughts, Core Beliefs and Build Optimism Activity 16 Perceptions Activity 17 Time Management

Dimension
Decision Making

To achieve
The set of activities can help the participant to manage and optimise the time and tasks of the day and week, create awareness of present and future goals, and anchoring them by using different goal-setting approaches. The activities can also be helpful in the sense that the participants can use them to realise which next steps they need to follow and keep track of their action plan. All these “Decision making’ activities can be used after each activity anchoring the ideas, learnings and ambitions from the dimensions.
Activities and Tools
Activity 18 Goal Setting Activity 19 Goal Setting – Anchoring the goal Activity 20 Anchoring Learnings, Decisions and Goals

Dimension
Wrap-up Tools

To achieve
These tools should be applied to effectively wrap up the dimensions in a way that will benefit the participants learning and anchoring learning and goals set throughout a dimension or the programme in its totality. It allows a sharing and presentation of what key learnings and a closure to end the dimensions or programme.
Activities and Tools
Activity 21A The Self-knowledge Sum up Activity 21B The World-knowledge Sum up Activity 21C My project – The global overview