Communication and Collaboration
1. Communicate Clearly
- Effectively express thought and ideas through oral, written, and nonverbal communication in a variety of forms and contexts
- Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, value, attitudes and intentions
- Use communication for a range of purposes
- Communicate effectively in all kinds of environments
- Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with partners and small groups
- Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work without dominating or letting other do all the work
- Be sensitive to the needs of your peers and do what you can to help them
- Use social skills in order to avoid conflict and maintain happiness
- Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal
- Realize a group can accomplish more than an individual
- Listen to and strongly consider the ideas of others
- Leverage strengths of others to accomplish a common goal
- Value the individual contributions made by each team member
Creativity and Innovation
1. Think Creatively
- Use a wide range of idea creation techniques
- Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts)
- Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate ideas in order to improve and maximize creative efforts
- Conceive creative solutions to problems after examining various possibilities from many angles
- Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas
- Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to other effectively
- Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group input and feedback into the work
- Generate tangible, useful, novel, original, clever or ingenious ideas, drawings, products, solutions, and techniques
- Take innovations to the public (an authentic audience)
- Make connections by referring to past experiences
- Draw from experiences when confronted with new and perplexing problems
- Take meaning from one experience, carry it forth, and apply it in a new and novel situations
- Recognize similarities between past experiences and current challenges and draw from what was learned
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
1. Think Critically
- Use various types of reasoning (inductive and deductive, etc.) as appropriate to the situation
- Analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other to produce overall outcomes in complex systems
- Effectively analyze and evaluation evidence, arguments, claims, beliefs and alternative points of view
- Interpret information and draw conclusions based on the best analysis
- Ask questions to fill in the gaps between what is know and what is unknown
- Ask questions at all levels of thinking, but that match the purpose with the correct type of question
- Identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to better solutions
- Solve different kinds of non-familiar problems in both conventional and innovative ways
- When appropriate, challenge yourself to find multiple correct ways to solve a problem
Reflection and Awareness
1. Metacognition (Thinking About Our Thinking)
- Know what you know and what you don’t know
- Know what to do and when to do it
- Be conscious of the steps and strategies during the act of problem solving
- Develop a plan of action, remember that plan over a period of time, then reflect back and evaluate the plan upon its completion
- Be aware of one’s actions and the effect of those actions on others and on the environment
- Shift gears if a plan isn’t working
- Explain your thinking and strategies used while making decisions
- Reflect critically on experiences in order to avoid repeating mistakes and to inform future progress
- Synthesize and make connections between information and arguments
- Identify moments when connections are made
Flexibility and Adaptability
1. Adapt to Change
- Adapt to varied roles, jobs, responsibilities, schedules and contexts
- Work effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities
- Change your mind when you receive additional data
- Know when it is appropriate to be broad and global in your thinking, and when a situation requires detailed precision
- Understand there are multiple ways to solve a problem
- Interpersonal- understanding people
- Intrapersonal- understanding yourself
- Logical/Mathematical- understanding they way things work
- Visual/Spatial- how things are arranged/work together
- Verbal/Linguistic- using language to express something
- Bodily/Kinesthetic- how to do something with your body
- Musical- expressing something using music and/or patterns
- Naturalist- discriminating living things/applying to the environment
Initiative and Self-Direction
1. Manage Goals and Time
- Set goals that have tangible and intangible success criteria
- Balance long term and short term goals (tactical versus strategic goals)
- Manage time and workloads effectively
- Take educated risks that push boundaries and perceived limits
- Exercise resilience if risk-taking is unsuccessful
- Know when risk-taking is inappropriate
- Understand that failure is an opportunity to learn
- Go beyond the requirements to explore and expand learning and opportunities
- Exercise initiative to advance skill towards the appropriate level
- Commit to a lifelong learning process
- Work on tasks for the challenge, not necessarily the material rewards
- Stay on target until it is reached
- Stay focused
- Have a variety of strategies to tackle a problem
- Do something about unsolved mysteries
- Be compelled, enthusiastic and passionate about learning, inquiring and mastering
- Ask for help, when necessary
- Appreciate the value of doubt over certainty
- Explore alternatives as opposed to accepting one answer
- Constantly look for new ways to do things
- Believe that adverse situations are opportunities to learn
- Invite creativity, inspiration and the unknown
Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
1. Interact Effectively with Others
- Know when to speak, but also when to listen
- Be professional
- Be humble
- Respect differences between individuals and cultures
- Be open-minded to all ideas
- Be able to laugh at various situations and yourself
Productivity and Accountability
1. Manage Assigned Tasks and Produce Results
- Set and meet goals in the face of adversity
- Prioritize
- Be able to multi-task
- Double check the product verify the requirement are met
- Meet deadlines without reminders from others
Leadership and Responsibility
1. Guide and Lead Others.
2. Be Responsible for Yourself and Others
- Use social skills to guide others towards a mutual goal
- Inspire others to be their best through personal example
- Exercise integrity and ethical behavior
- Know when to lead, and when to be led
2. Be Responsible for Yourself and Others
- Monitor, define, prioritize and complete tasks without direct oversight
- Act responsible with the interests of all parties in mind
- Understand, balance, and balance diverse view to reach valid solutions
- Anticipate potential misunderstandings and how to solve