Skills List

• Explain your ideas and feelings (Express)
• Listen and ask questions
• Share information using different technologies (e.g., voice, e-mail, computers)
• Read and understand information (e.g., words, graphs, charts, diagrams)
• Talk easily with others
• Greet people
• Take messages
• Seek information from others
• Counsel people
• Create and talk about new ideas
• Write clear reports
• Speak in public Design presentations

Dealing with Numbers and Information

• Analyze data or facts
• Investigate
• Measuring and calculating
• Audit records
• Keep financial records
• Make estimates and verify calculations
• Controlling budgets (organizing large amounts of money)
• Find information using technology (research computers databases)
• Calculate (figure out the total amount of something)
• Manage money
• Negotiating (give and take, to make an agreement)
• Observe and record data
• Compare, inspect, or record
• Count, observe, compile
• Research Pay attention to details Evaluate Take inventory (counting the stock or merchandise of a store or company) Increasing sales

Problem Solving

• Identify problems
• Look at different points of view
• Recognize different parts of a problem
• Identify the root cause of a problem
• Be creative in exploring possible solutions
• Consider different solutions
• Put the solution into action
• Check to see if a solution works
• Change the solution if needed

Leadership

• Supervising others
• Arrange social functions
• Motivate others (making others feel interested in something)
• Negotiate agreements (come to an agreement about something)
• Decisive (able to make decisions)
• Plan
• Delegate (giving someone else a job to complete)
• Run meetings
• Direct others (telling other people what they need to do)
• Self-controlled
• Explain things to others
• Speaking in public
• Self-motivated
• Get results
• Solve problems
• Mediate others (helping two sides come to an agreement)
• Take risks
• Instructing others (showing others what to do)
• Competitive when necessary

Demonstrate Positive Attitudes & Behaviours

• Confident (feel good about yourself)
• Deal with people, problems and situations with honesty and respect
• Recognize my own and other people’s good efforts
• Take care of my personal health
• Show interest, initiative and effort
• Accepting responsibility (admitting where you could have improved)

Responsibility

• Set goals and priorities balancing work and personal life
• Plan and manage time, money and other resources to achieve goals
• Accountable for my actions and the actions of your group
• Socially responsible and contribute to your community
• Meeting deadlines (Getting things done on time)
• Aware of personal and group health and safety practices

Learn Continuously

• Be willing to continuously learn and grow
• Find your personal strengths and areas for development
• Set your own learning goals
• Identify and access learning sources and opportunities
• Plan for and achieve your learning goals

Work with Others

• Understand and work within the dynamics of a group
• Flexible (Open to change)
• Respect people’s differences
• Accept and provide feedback in a considerate manner
• Contribute to a team by sharing information and expertise
• Lead or support when appropriate
• Understand the role of conflict in a group to reach solutions
• Manage and resolve conflict when appropriate
• Administer
• Patient with others
• Encourage others
• Care for others
• Persuade others
• Confront others
• Interview others
• Teach others
• Kind
• Pleasant
• Counsel people
• Sensitive
• Sociable
• Listen
• Trust
• Supervise
• Tactful (concerned or thoughtful of others)
• Understanding
• Outgoing personality
• Help others

Participate in Projects & Tasks

• Design or carry out a project or task from start to finish
• Seek feedback (Asking others to tell you how you are doing)
• Select and use appropriate tools and technology for a task or project
• Adaptable (ability to handle changes and new conditions)
• Monitor the success of a project or task and identify ways to improve
• Arrange social functions (Organizing a group event)
• Decisive (Make decisions)
• Plan (Thinking of plans or writing them down)
• Delegate (Give a task to others)
• Run meetings
• Direct others
• Self-controlled (control your behaviour)
• Explain things to others
• Self-motivated (able do things on your own)
• Get results
• Solve problems
• Mediate others (resolve conflict between others)
• Take risks (not being afraid to take something on)

Hands On Skills

• Use my hands
• Assemble or make things
• Build or repair things
• Construct or repair buildings
• Use complex machinery
• Operate tools and machinery
• Drive or operate vehicles
• Repair things
• Good with my hands

Creative, Artistic

• Artistic (able to express yourself through art)
• Music appreciation (love for music)
• Dance, body movement
• Perform, act
• Drawing, art
• Play instruments
• Expressive (able to express feelings easily)
• Present artistic ideas
• Write short stories
• Write poetry
• Design web pages
• Achieve high scores in video games

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