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the survey find challenging, while ‘adaptability and flexibility’ is an
area often highlighted as important by employers and – importantly -
was reported by young people as an area where involvement in youth
organisations contributes strongly to skills development. The case of
organisational skills (and associated tasks such as delegation of
tasks, time management and effective sequencing of tasks) is similar.
On the other extreme, numeracy is an area where young people also
face challenges - as Figure 4 shows - and is important for employers;
however the contribution from youth organisation involvement to the
development of numeracy skills is lower.
Figure 4 Individuals assessment of their capacity to undertake ‘softskills’
related tasks
Source: Bath/ ICF-GHK survey.
4.2.2 Young people’s degree of involvement in youth organisations and
level of skills development
The degree of involvement in the organisations’ activities has an
important effect on the degree to which individuals reported having
increased their skills, as shown in Figure 5 below. Those people who
reported higher levels of involvement (defined in terms of frequency
and duration) in the youth organisations’ activities also reported
higher levels of skills development. This relationship was very clear,
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