Core skills form the foundation for learning, career development, and workplace performance. These transferable skills are developed through life experience, work experience, and formal training and are valuable across all sectors and jobs.
Building Inclusivity
The ability to create an environment and manage relationships across diverse groups in a range of different contexts by seeking to establish common ground regard-less of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, ability, education, socio-economic status.
Collaboration and Teamwork
The ability to work collectively and effectively with one or more people in order to achieve a common goal, bringing together a range of experience and skills based on exchanging ideas, sharing experience and developing creative solutions.
Communication
The ability to listen effectively and understand, articulate thoughts and ideas effectively, exchange information, employ negotiation skills and use oral, written and non-verbal skills across a range of different environments.
Empathy
The ability to demonstrate emotional intelligence by demonstrating awareness of the feelings and emotions of others and being able to act accordingly within that context.
Adaptability
The ability to easily adapt to new situations and changing circumstances in life and work and change actions as required.
Initiative
The ability to think independently, identify opportunities, think innovatively and take action when necessary and without direction.
Literacy
The ability to understand and have the confidence and skills to work with language to identify, interpret, create and communicate effectively in written and oral formats.
Planning and Organizing
The ability to plan and organize tasks in order to fulfill requirements within a given time.
Critical Thinking
The ability to analyze, interpret, evaluate, infer, explain, synthesize and self-reflect in the context of making reasoned judgements based on a logical sequence of independent thought.
Problem Solving
The ability to identify and assess issues and problems and make use of available resources to evaluate and generate potential solutions in personal, social and work contexts.
Numeracy
The ability to understand and have the confidence and skills to work with numbers using numerical skills to process, interpret and communicate information to help understand, predict and solve problems.
Digital Literacy
The ability to find, evaluate, analyze, use, share and create content using digital devices, use software applications and troubleshoot common problems.