Adapting

Overcoming challenges and setbacks to achieve goals

This skill is about how individuals adapt to challenges and setbacks effectively, whether in education, the workplace or in their wider lives.

The early steps focus on individuals identifying their own and others' emotional responses, showing persistence, and managing their immediate reactions to setbacks.

Next, individuals demonstrate a positive approach to challenges, reflecting and learning from them, supporting and encouraging others, and proactively managing their own well-being.

Suggested activities to try at home to build the skill:

• Play a tricky game. Play a computer or board game that you know is tricky, but is still fun! Talk about when things go wrong, or when you are losing. Talk about how you feel and what you need to do to stay calm and carry on. Encourage each other to keep going.
• Master something new. Think of an activity that requires practice and set it as a challenge. It could be to learn a new language, how to juggle, to play a new song on an instrument or to do a new magic trick!