Module on Soft Skills available at the YOURS Academy

12th June 2024 - YOURS - Youth for Road Safety launched its latest YOURS Academy Module on Cultivating Your Soft Skills to Enhance Your Effectiveness. This Module is focused on building all crucial "soft skills" like giving presentations, networking in conferences, and sharpening public speaking skills. The goal is to level up young people’s abilities to become road safety advocates around the world.

The Module highlights how youth can create incredible presentations using logical structures, and well-designed formats, harness the art of storytelling to change a mediocre presentation into presentations that pop, develop techniques that can help young people boost confidence and captivate audiences with the presentation message, and improve tactics to get the most out of conferences and other events.

The Module is the sixth in the series joining Modules about The Global Road Safety Problem and Youth, The Safe System Approach and Risk Factors, Road Safety and Sustainable Development, Meaningful Youth Participation in Road Safety, and Advocacy 101.

The Module was created in response to the needs of youth, as gathered through the members of the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety. “By popular demand, we bring you a module on cultivating some crucial soft skills to be able to present, speak publically and get the most out of events, while on your leadership journey,” YOURS Capacity Development Team.

Expert reviewers commend the latest Module for what it can do for youth. Says Laura Sminkey, Communications Officer of the World Health Organization - WHO “Soft skills like developing impactful presentations, public speaking and networking are vital to being a successful road safety advocate. It might even be said that they make all the difference! It was a pleasure to review this sixth module of the YOURS Academy, which is a fantastic resource for young people – and anyone – wishing to maximize their contributions to road safety and sustainable mobility".