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