World Class Skills
Life & Career Characteristics
Employability Skills
Transferable Skills
Whether You Like it or Not
100

This world class skill is about unleashing the potential of the mind to conceive new ideas that become something we can see, hear, smell, touch, or taste.

What is creativity

100

This life & career characteristic means persistence and tenacity, the effort required to do something and keep doing it till the end, even if it's hard.

What is perseverance

100

This employability skill means expressing your ideas clearly and confidently in speech.

What is oral communication

100

This transferable skill relates to how you interact with other people.

What are people skills

100

When you seek acceptance from the online community and relinquish your power to decide for yourself who you are.

What is validation

200

This world class skill is completely measurable. It is about introducing change into a relatively stable system.

What is innovation

200

This world class skill is defined as a set of values centered on the importance of doing work and reflected especially in a desire or determination to work hard.

What is work ethic

200

The ability to carry out numerical operations and understand numerical data.

What is numeracy

200

These transferable skills involve taking the lead on a task or managing people or things.

What are leadership skills

200

When we see other’s accomplishments we look at ourselves to see how we measure up

What is comparison

300

This world class skill is when two or more people (often groups) work together through idea sharing and thinking to accomplish a common goal.

What is collaboration

300

Interpersonal skills are the skills we use every day when we communicate and interact with other people, both individually and in groups. They also include the skills and attributes associated with emotional intelligence, or being able to understand and manage your own and others’ emotions.

What are interpersonal skills

300

The ability to carry out computing tasks as a regular part of the job.

What is computing

300

These transferable skills are gained by working with specific tools, software, or machinery.

What are technical skills

300

When you feel some-type-of-way about one person liking another person’s status and not yours, or that one person shared a moment with another friend and not you.

What is being bitter or getting angry

400

This world class skill is often a physical joining of two people or a group to accomplish a task.

What is teamwork

400

This life & career characteristic means the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.

What is integrity

400

Adaptaing successfully to changing situations and environments.

What is flexibility

400

This transferrable skill is the disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence

What is critical thinking

400

When you care more about how many “likes” or “retweets” you get more than someone else.

What is caring about the wrong things

500

The following examples are of what world class skill

• drawing pictures to understand information

• making up questions to ask yourself about a subject

• discussing what I am doing in a subject with others

What is knowing how to learn

500

This life & career characteristic means making your own decisions and organizing your own work rather than being told what to do by managers, teachers, etc.

What is self direction

500

Gathering information systematically to establish facts and principles.

What is analyzing

500

These transferable skills are essential to finding solutions to challenges.

What are problem-solving skills

500

When you shut yourself off from interacting with people because you believe your interaction online is enough or when you think it’s easier to interact with people online than in person.

What is isolation