Career Action Plan
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part five skills personal skills chart* organising social group communication and
Linguistic creative
Time structuring and management
Encouraging, monitoring, criticising
Technical presentation
Formulating hypotheses
Setting and achieving goals
Networking Expressing ideas, feelings, opinions, judgements
Demonstrating a capacity for inventiveness
Thoroughness and attention to detail
Effectiveness in group interaction
Presenting information and ideas in effective written form appropriate to the purpose and to the reader
Perceiving likenesses among things apparently unlike
Effective decision making
Working cooperatively and constructively
Editing Working with analogues, parallels
Helicopter view – being able to look from above and see all aspects
Participating in team work
Communicating orally in large or small groups
Extrapolating from the known to the unknown
Managing others Sharing responsibilities
Giving and receiving feedback
Capacity for vision
Motivating others Willingness to learn from others
Active listening Ability to think laterally
Leading Assessing and evaluating others
Ability to move to closure
Use of metaphors and analogies
Planning Recognising, accepting, allowing for differences
Questioning Suspending judgement
Political awareness Dealing with conflict/negativity/ apathy/passivity
Reflecting Building on the ideas of others
Contracting Handling controversy
Clarifying Being proactive
Initiating Explaining, persuading, negotiating, influencing
Non-verbal communication
Delegating Constructive disagreement - confrontation - resolution
Clarity of expression
Empathising Fluency
Openness Foreign language competence
Source: Personal Skills Unit, University of Sheffield, UK.
cognitive contingency self-managing physical
Numerical competence
Responding effectively to change
Self-awareness Psychomotor coordination
Collecting, selecting and ordering data
Adapting concepts, skills and materials to new situations
Responsibility – planning own work
Fitness appreciation and development
Making effective use of information
Adjusting to individual differences and to changing group characteristics and reactions
Operating independently
Spatial awareness
Observing and recording
Recognising need for change
Ability to de-centre
Psychosomatic cues
Applying judgement and discrimination
Coping with the unexpected
Developing self-esteem
Performance inhibitors
Evaluating, data, values, issues
Showing capacity to improvise
Developing self-confidence
Diet, exercise
Identifying and solving problems
Dealing with ambiguity
Coping and managing stress
Analysing key factors into components
Role adaptability Being assertive
Inductive/ deductive reasoning
Transfer and application of ideas and concepts
Identifying personal potential and routes to achieving it
Synthesising and integrating disparate elements
Anticipating problems and building in ways to manage them
Ability to self-disclose
Formulating and testing hypotheses
Personal power
Evaluating evidence Personal presentation
Extrapolating Managing personal/ professional boundaries
Summarising Self-evaluation and assessment
Assessment Elimination of prejudice and stereotypes
Diagnosis