What are Skill Builders?

Skill Builders are short, focused lessons that give learners the opportunity to practice foundational skills such as accountability, budgeting, and digital safety. Each Skill Builder is designed to make learning feel meaningful and connected to real life.

Simple, scripted, and flexible, Skill Builders can be completed individually, in small groups, or as part of a larger learning experience. Each includes detailed facilitation guides, strategies for diverse learners, and varying levels of tech interactivity. Learners reflect on their experiences to build confidence and develop the language to talk about their skills.

Skill Builders provide a ready-to-use way to bring competency-based learning into a variety of learning environments. With clear guidance and built-in structure, they support personalized learning, deeper engagement, and meaningful skill development without requiring a full curriculum redesign.

Skill Builders make it easy for learners to grow and for those guiding learning to do so with confidence.

GenUS Skill Builders

  • Accessing Information

  • Accountability

  • Active Listening

  • Budgeting

  • Career Exploration

  • Community Engagement

  • Critical Thinking

  • Digital Ethics

  • Digital Safety

  • Emotional Regulation

  • Evaluating Consequences

  • Feedback

  • Goal Builder

  • Healthy Relationships

  • Media Savvy

  • Motivating People

  • Organization

  • Overcoming Obstacles

  • Read the Room

  • Recognizing Perspectives

  • Resilience

  • Saving

  • Time Smart

  • Working Respectfully

The Skill Builders Model is the proprietary property of GenUS

GenUS retains exclusive rights to its content, structure, and implementation. Use of this model and its materials is strictly limited to entities with a specific, written agreement authorizing such use. Any reproduction, distribution, or adaptation outside of an expressly authorized contract is strictly prohibited.