Skills 4 Success

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Skills 4 Success

• 3.00 Understand the world of work and skills
  needed for employment success.
• 3.02 Understand various skills needed for
  employment success.

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Introducing . . .
Social
12. Listening
2. Workplace Specific Skills
13. Problem-solving
16. Teamwork
4. Basic skills
Interpersonal skills
6. Thinking skills
11. Communication
7. Resources
15. Organizing and planning
17. Technology
10. Adaptability
Information
Systems
3. Transferable Skills
1. Foundation Skills
5. Personal Qualities
Listening
14. Decision-making
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SCANS

• SCANS is a set of skills necessary for success in
  the world of work.
• The list of skills was determined by the
  Secretarys Commission on Achieving Necessary
  Skills.
• The skills are divided into three categories
• Foundation
• Workplace-specific
• Transferable

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Foundation Skills Basic

• Reading locates, understands, and interprets
  written information in prose and in documents
  such as manuals, graphs, and schedules
• Writing communicates thoughts, ideas,
  information, and messages in writing, and creates
  documents such as letters, directions, manuals,
  reports, graphs, and flow charts
• Arithmetic/Mathematics performs basic
  computations and approaches practical problems by
  choosing appropriately from a variety of
  mathematical techniques
• Listening receives, attends to, interprets, and
  responds to verbal messages and other cues
• Speaking organizes ideas and communicates orally

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Thinking Skills

• Creativity generates new ideas
• Decision Making specifies goals and
  constraints, generates alternatives, considers
  risks, and evaluates and chooses best alternative
• Problem Solving recognizes problems and devises
  and implements plan of action
• Seeing Things in the Minds Eye organizes, and
  processes symbols, pictures, graphs, objects, and
  other information
• Knowing how to learn uses efficient learning
  techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and
  skills
• Reasoning discovers a rule or principle
  underlying the relationship between two or more
  objects and applies it when solving a problem

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Personal Qualities

• Responsibility exerts a high level of effort
  and perseveres towards goal attainment
• Self-Esteem believes in own self-worth and
  maintains a positive view of self
• Sociability demonstrates understanding,
  friendliness, adaptability, empathy, and
  politeness in group settings
• Self-Management assesses self accurately, sets
  personal goals, monitors progress, and exhibits
  self-control
• Integrity/Honesty chooses ethical courses of
  action

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Workplace Specific Skills
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Resources

• Time selects goal-relevant activities, ranks
  them, allocates time, and prepares and follows
  schedules
• Money uses or prepares budgets, makes
  forecasts, keeps records, and makes adjustments
  to meet objectives
• Material and Facilities acquires, stores,
  allocates, and uses materials or space
  efficiently
• Human Resources assesses skills and distributes
  work accordingly, evaluates performance and
  provides feedback

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Interpersonal

• Participates as a Member of a Team contributes
  to group effort
• Teaches Others New Skills
• Serves Clients/Customers works to satisfy
  customers expectations
• Exercises Leadership communicates ideas to
  justify position, persuades and convinces others,
  responsibly challenges existing procedures and
  policies
• Negotiates works toward agreements involving
  exchange of resources, resolves divergent
  interests
• Works with Diversity works well with men and
  women from diverse backgrounds

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Information

• Acquires and Evaluates Information identifies
  need for data, obtains it from existing sources
  or creates it, and evaluates its relevance and
  accuracy
• Organizes and Maintains Information organizes,
  processes, and maintains written or computerized
  records and other forms of information in a
  systematic fashion
• Interprets and Communicates Information selects
  and analyzes information and communicates the
  results to others using oral, written, graphic,
  pictorial, or multimedia methods
• Uses Computers to Process Information employs
  computers to acquire, organize, analyze, and
  communicate information

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Systems

• Understands Systems knows how social,
  organizational, and technological systems work
  and operates effectively with them
• Monitors and Corrects Performance distinguishes
  trends, predicts impacts on system operations,
  diagnoses deviations in systems performance and
  corrects malfunctions
• Improves or Designs Systems suggests
  modifications to existing systems and develops
  new or alternative systems to improve performance

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Technology

• Selects Technology chooses procedures, tools,
  or equipment including computers and related
  technologies
• Applies Technology to Task understands overall
  intent and proper procedure for setup and
  operation of equipment
• Maintains and Troubleshoots Equipment prevents,
  identifies, or solves problems with equipment,
  including computers and other technologies

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Careers in Each

• Managing Time
• Managing Money
• Managing Materials and Facilities
• Managing People
• Teamwork
• Teaching
• Customer Service
• Leading

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Careers in Each 2

• Negotiation
• Cultural Diversity
• Acquiring and Evaluating Information
• Organizing and Maintaining Information
• Understanding Systems
• Interpreting and Communicating Information
• Using Computers to Process Info.

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Careers in Each 3

• Selecting Technology
• Monitoring and Correcting Performance
• Improving and Designing Systems
• Applying Technology
• Maintaining and Troubleshooting Technology

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Transferable Skills

• Transferable skills are skills that you can take
  from one job to the next. These skills can be
  acquired through taking a class, participating in
  student activities, paid or volunteer work such
  as internships, part-time jobs, groups, or
  organization to which you belong.
• Lets see how some of the personal and
  workplace-specific skills you have already
  acquired can transfer to the workplace

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Examples of Transferable Skills

• You delivered a presentation at the FBLA meeting
  about competitive events
• Basic Foundation Skill Listening and Speaking
• Workplace-Specific Skill Interprets and
  communicates information
• You organized a surprise party for your moms
  birthday by making out a guest list, sending
  invitations and directions, preparing food, and
  cleaning the house
• Basic Foundation Skill Writing
• Workplace-Specific Skill Resources time,
  money, materials