Persona Life Skills

Online personality insights approach to Social-Emotional Learning for age 11-19

School/College Free Trial

Persona Life Skills

Online personality insights approach to Social-Emotional Learning for age 11-19

School/College Free Trial

Hit Personal Development targets. Boost student Wellbeing, Academic and Employability outcomes.

Persona Life Skills is an engaging Social-Emotional Learning platform boosting Year 7-13/Grade 6-12 (KS3/KS4/KS5) and college students’ wellbeing, academic and employability outcomes.

 

The platform has our unique personality insights at its heart, and complements your existing SEL, Personal Development, PSHE, RSE, Citizenship, SMSC, Life Skills, CEIAG, CIAG, Careers or CTE programmes.

Made for age 11-19, our scaffolded, age-appropriate curriculum includes both teacher-led and self-directed learning, and works equally well in lessons or tutor groups, or via blended or remote learning.

 

Built-in onboarding, intro videos, PDF resources, and contextual guidance in each module empower any non-specialist teacher to start facilitating the learning in less than an hour.

Help young people navigate their life journey.

Research shows – and educators, learners and employers agree – that developing social-emotional life skills boosts wellbeing. And that means more agency, higher academic results, better employability and greater life satisfaction. 

 

Download our Guide to Student Personal Development to see the research evidence »

 

Persona Life Skills helps young people navigate their life journey by developing 22 important Life Skills across six Skillsets, mapped to popular frameworks and benchmarks.

 

  • Communication
  • Open-mindedness
  • Self-control
  • Being Realistic
  • Resilience
  • Problem Solving
Help young people navigate their life journey.

What's inside Persona Life Skills?

In their Persona Profile – at the heart of our pedagogy – students (and teachers) discover their Persona Insights personality styles and growth areas, their Persona Community, and their Persona Adaptability assessment. Find out more »

 

With a Persona Life Skills school/college subscription your students can take more than 80 modules and earn certificates, with over 400 activities embedded in 40 hours of teaching and learning, including: 

 

  • 20+ teacher-facilitated ‘life challenge’ modules (45-60 mins). Each module helps students with a social, learning or work context challenge, such as friendships, preparing for exams and leadership. Find out more »

 

  • 66 self-directed learning ‘life skills’ modules (15-20 mins). Each module helps students develop one of 22 social-emotional skills, such as goal-setting, empathy or critical thinking, over three levels: Start, Apply and Challenge. Find out more »

 

On their homepage, students are guided through an intuitive, scaffolded learning journey built around more than 20 themed Units. Find out more »

 

Or you can simply follow our 3-year or 5-year spiral curriculum. You can even lock/unlock any module for groups or individuals, to create your own learning journey for your students.

What's inside Persona Life Skills?

Step-by-step scaffolded learning

Using a learning journey metaphor of exploring islands, all our modules are structured in the same way, making the teaching and learning experience consistent and familiar. 

 

1. The Map outlines learning objectives.

 

2. Get Your Bearings recaps prior learning and introduces new concepts.

 

3. Explore is where students develop new knowledge and skills, and are challenged with real-life scenarios.

 

4. In the Viewpoint students reflect on their learning, and the positive implications for their wider lives.

 

5. Finally, students fill out a Postcard, self-reporting to what extent they learnt how to improve the targeted life skill(s).

Step-by-step scaffolded learning

Engaging learning built around a scientifically proven framework.

Wrapped in an engaging learning metaphor of exploring an archipelago of islands representing different life challenges, our pedagogy is rooted in behavioural science research. The pedagogy drives the technology, not vice versa.

 

What makes Persona Life Skills really unique is the ‘Self/Friends’ personality insights framework at its heart, guiding young people to adapt to life challenges, build productive relationships, make informed decisions, and achieve positive outcomes.

 

Our wellbeing and employability education platform is continually developing, with input from inspectors, headteachers, pastoral leads, careers leads, teachers and learners.

Engaging learning built around a scientifically proven framework.

Our theory of change


The science behind Persona

A practical and memorable thinking framework

Many personality insight systems have been developed over the years – going back as far as Hippocrates around 400 BC! Many of the most robust systems – including Hippocrates’ – are based on four sets of related characteristics, which influence how people think, communicate and behave.

 

At Persona we believe in keeping things practical. So our thinking framework is built around four descriptive, positive and memorable styles. The framework, algorithm and insights are all rooted in large scale empirical research by behavioural scientists, and were developed with UK government R&D grant funding specifically for young people.

 

Personality insights for students and teachers are included in all subscriptions, free or paid.

A practical and memorable thinking framework

Persona personality styles

The four Persona styles are derived from observing two fundamental aspects of human behaviour that affect your thinking, communication and behaviour: Assertiveness (Questions <> Statements) and Responsiveness (People <> Tasks).

 

Our clever algorithm combines these observations to provide a reliable and detailed insight into anyone’s unique mix of personality styles at that point in their life, in a certain context: Social, Learning or Work. We call this their Persona.

Your Persona is about 50% determined by your genes, and 50% by external factors such as family, school, friends and experiences. It is very likely to change as you navigate your life journey, especially when you are young.

 

The best part is, you can learn to adapt your thinking, communication and behaviour in different situations, leading to improved social-emotional skills, relationships and decision-making, which in turn boosts wellbeing and employability.

 

Find out more about the framework »

Persona Life Skills flyer

A one-page introduction to Persona Life Skills for schools and colleges.

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Persona Life Skills intro for parents and students

A unique, personality insights approach to Personal Development, for young people age 11-19. Boost your wellbeing and employability with life skills, while supporting academic achievement.

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Persona Life Skills online platform overview

Delivered via web at school or college, eg. in Personal Development, SEL, PSHE, Careers, Guidance or Tutor sessions, or in homeschooling; accessible by students anywhere.

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Young people develop 22 Life Skills across six Skillsets

Persona’s scaffolded, age appropriate curriculum helps students age 11-19 navigate their life journey, building 22 social-emotional Life Skills across six Skillsets.

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A practical and memorable thinking framework

At Persona we believe in the importance of keeping things practical and memorable. So our thinking framework is based on personality styles that are descriptive, positive and rapidly internalised.

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Student data privacy FAQs

We take data protection very seriously, so we've come up with a set of FAQs covering the commonly asked questions about student data privacy, when using Persona Life Skills.

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Choose an affordable Teacher package, or an individual Student account for Homeschooling. Or start with a School/College Free Trial for as many students as you like, then upgrade to a Paid Subscription to access all modules and features.