Digital skills toolkit Strategic skills

Strategic skills are defined as the capacity to utilize digital media and network sources to reach a particular personal or professional goal. Although strategic skills will hardly depend on operational and formal skills alone, together with information skills they serve as the means to reach a particular goal by one’s own initiative. In order to acquire strategic skills, someone must have a high degree of information skills, be critical and analytical. For instance, taking advantage of the internet by developing an orientation toward a particular objective, evaluating your options (e.g hypermedia), taking the right actions to reach this objective and gGaining the benefits resulting from it.