Staying Positive
The ability to use tactics and strategies to overcome setbacks and achieve goals.
What this skill covers
- Keeping trying
- Finding opportunities
- Managing risks and rewards
- Supporting others to stay positive
What is this skill about?
This skill is all about being equipped to manage your emotions effectively and being able to remain motivated, and ultimately to motivate others, even when facing setbacks.
The early steps focus on identifying emotions – particularly feeling positive or negative. Building off that is the ability to keep trying and then staying calm, thinking about what went wrong, and trying to cheer up and encourage others.
The focus then turns to identifying new opportunities in difficult situations, sharing those, and adapting or creating plans accordingly. At more advanced steps, it focuses on identifying and managing risks and gains in opportunities.
Finally, the focus becomes about supporting others to stay positive by managing your own response, helping others to see opportunities and create plans to achieve them.
Skill details
There are 16 steps in this skill
You can jump straight to a step by selecting it below.
Recognising when you feel positive or negative
Recognising when others feel positive or negative
Keeping trying when something goes wrong
Keeping trying and stay calm when something goes wrong
Keeping trying when something goes wrong, and thinking about what happened
Keeping trying when something goes wrong and helping cheer others up
Keeping trying when something goes wrong and encouraging others to keep trying too
Looking for opportunities in difficult situations
Looking for opportunities in difficult situations, and sharing these with others
Looking for opportunities in difficult situations, and adapting plans to use these opportunities
Looking for opportunities in difficult situations, and creating new plans to use these opportunities
Identifying risks and gains in opportunities
Identifying risks and gains in opportunities, and making plans to manage them
Supporting others to stay positive, by managing your own responses
Supporting others to stay positive, by helping others to see opportunities
Supporting others to stay positive, by helping others to see opportunities and create plans to achieve them
Module Structure
Each step in this skill requires you to work through 3 stages.
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Identify
Read, watch and listen to the content.
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Practise
Show that you've understood the content by completing activities.
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Articulate
Reflect and discuss what you've learned.
Learn your own way
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You don't need to learn the skill steps in order.
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You can move back and forward between steps at anytime - you can even revisit them at a later date!
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Don't want to do an exercise just yet? No problem - come back to it again later.