Skills for students
Scientific communication skills
Effective science communication focus on putting complex scientific concepts into simpler terms and language to helping researchers and students demonstrate the importance of their work to a wide range of stakeholders. These stakeholders may be other students, colleagues, investment managers and business executives, the public and the press. It is a very dynamic field that demand ongoing new skills due to continuous developments in scientific thinking and technology.
Language skills
When mastering any language, there are four language skills that need to be learnt for complete communication. These four language skills are related to each other in two ways, namely the direction of communication (in or out – refers to listening and speaking) and the method of communication (spoken or written – refers to reading and writing). These four skills are sometimes called the “macro-skills”, as opposed to the “micro-skills”, which are things like grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. In life, you’ll encounter many situations that require effective language skills. Building these skills will encourage you to pursue your goals with confidence.
Conflict management
Conflicts must be prevented at the right time in order to avoid tensions and other adverse effects. Conflict Management involves the steps undertaken to prevent conflict at the right time and also help to resolve it in an effective and smooth manner. It is the process of dealing with (perceived) incompatibilities or disagreements arising from, for example, diverging opinions, objectives, and needs. Since conflicts are a natural part of the academic and professional workplace, it is important that staff and students have some understanding of conflicts and how to resolve them. There are a number of common conflict management styles and effective ways to manage conflict in a skillful manner.
Social interaction
Social interaction skills are the skills we use everyday to interact and communicate with others. They include verbal and non-verbal communication, such as speech, gesture, facial expression, body language and personal appearance. It is commonly accepted that social skills can indeed be learnt, usually through practice and experience but also taught. In this way we have “accepted ways of behaviour” in social groups, which are different from professional groups or even academic groups. Also see the information on communication.
Group discussion skills
Group discussions are systematic and purposeful interactive oral processes and events where the exchange of ideas, thoughts and feelings take place in a systematic and structured way through oral communication. The exchange of ideas provides very important opportunities to assess candidates for advanced studies or participation in busines or scientific projects and managerial positions. Through this process selection committees aim to assess shortlisted candidates for specific required personality traits or skills, like: Reasoning ability, ability to think and act independently, leadership skills, communication skills, skill to work in a team, ability to take initiatives and have creativeness, flexibility and boldness, managerial qualities and whether candidates can generate results in a group.
Presentation skills
Presentation skills refer to all the qualities you need to deliver a specific message through creating and delivering a clear and effective presentation whether in a scientific group discussion, a committee meeting or a social gathering. Personal presentation skills also include your voice, body language and what you say. Your ability to think on your feet, say what you actually mean and get a point across are very important qualities. Although what you say during a presentation matters, colleagues, students and other listeners also value the ability to create supporting materials, such as slides, micro videos or any other visual or sensoric experiences that support your presentation.
Continuos Learning
Continuous learning is the process of learning new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis. This can come in many forms, from formaleducation and courses to casual social learning. It involves self-initiative and taking on challenges. Continuous learning can also be within an organization, or it can be personal, such as in lifelong learning. It is about developing skills, and knowledge, and acquiring abilities that make students and staff more succesful and proficient in their careers. Continuous learning is a process of constant learning throughout their careers.
Instruction comprehension
Three predominant elements support the development of reading comprehension skills: vocabulary instruction, active reading, and teacher preparation to deliver strategy instruction. Effective comprehension instruction is instruction that helps students to become independent, strategic, and metacognitive readers who are able to develop, control, and use a variety of comprehension strategies to ensure that they understand what they read. To achieve this goal, comprehension instruction must begin as soon as possible and should: be explicit, intensive, and persistent; help students to become aware of text organization; and motivate students to read widely.
Teamwork
Effective teamwork means a synergistic way of working with each person committed and working towards a shared goal. Teamwork maximises the individual strengths of team members to bring out their best. Strong teams thrive on a compelling direction (that energizes the members), a strong structure (the right mix and number of members, optimally designed tasks and processes, and norms that discourage destructive behavior and promote positive dynamics), supportive context (maintaining a reward system that reinforces good performance, an information system that provides access to the data needed for the work, and an educational system that offers training, and last—but not least—securing the material resources required to do the job, such as funding and technological assistance) and a shared mindset (developing a shared mindset among team members—something team leaders can do by fostering a common identity and common understanding).
Adaptability
Adaptability is a soft skill that means you easily adjust to changing circumstances. Adaptability is important because as new technology evolves, companies established in the “old ways” may have difficulty competing with major players in their industry. An adaptable person in the workplace can keep up with moving priorities, projects, clients, and technology. They’re skilled at dealing with changes at work, whether process updates or their work environment. Important adaptability skills include critical thinking, resilience, growth mindset, collaboration and responsiveness to feedback.
Organisation skills
Organizational skills are physical and mental organization and time management abilities that let you stay focused on different tasks, and use your time, energy, strength, mental capacity, physical space, etc. effectively and efficiently in order to achieve the desired outcome. Being organized will allow you to meet deadlines, minimize stress and carry out your duties more efficiently and to use your resources efficiently and effectively. Learning how to improve your organizational skills can affect your work performance, so you need to know what this skill set entails.
Resource management
Resource management is the efficient and effective development of an organization’s resources when they are needed through the process of pre-planning, scheduling, and allocating your resources to maximize efficiency. Resource management is centered around optimization and efficiency to promote accountability for allocating the resources needed to make a project a success.
Post-arrival orientation
Post-arrival skills involve the ability of staff and students to effectively and efficiently orientate and position themselves within the new institutional and social environment at host institutions. These skills involves assessing, interpreting and accurately reacting to information provided to arriving staff and students regarding their accommodation and academic arrangements.
Stress management
Stress is the method within which humans react physically and mentally to changes, events, and to any conditions of their lives. Although serious events are less common, they will be the most physiologically and psychologically acute. If you read a situation negatively, you will probably expertise distress—overwhelmed, oppressed, or out of control. people experience stress in exceptional ways in which and for distinctive reasons. The response is entirely based on your perception of an incident or situation. Stress is a negative experience; therefore management of this feeling is important to the individual’s success. Being able to identify stress, and its effects, is an important first step in developing the skills to manage the source of this problem. Enough exercise and sleep are very important strategies.
Problem solving
Problem solving is the process of identifying a problem, developing possible solution paths, and taking the appropriate course of action. Problem-solving skills help you determine the source of a problem and find an effective solution. Although problem-solving is often identified as its own separate skill, there are other related skills that contribute to this ability, e.g., active listening, analytical reasoning, communication, decision-making, etc. It is an important skill to improve the dependability of team members, employees, etc. Problem solving skills are not only very good skills to complete tasks, but also to improve your chances to succeed in being included in groups and teams you favour.
decision making
Decision-making skills are all of the skills you need to make an informed, rational decision. Someone with good decision-making skills at work can assess all the facts, understand the company’s current state and goal state, and choose the best course of action. This skill can look like facilitating a brainstorming session, choosing candidates for a job offer, interpreting marketing trends to influence company strategy, etc. This is a very versatile skill and numerous types of skills are incorporated into decision-making, including analysis, creativity, collaboration, and leadership skills. Smart decision-making needs smart, rational decisions that consider all the facts, understand the available resources and goals, and lead to practical solutions. Smart decisions are the ones that get the results.
Creativity
Creativity is the use of imagination or original ideas to create something. It is also referred to as inventiveness. Creativity encompasses the ability to discover new and original ideas, connections, and solutions to problems. It’s a part of our drive as humans—fostering resilience, sparking joy, and providing opportunities for self-actualization. An act of creativity can be grand and inspiring, such as crafting a beautiful painting or designing an innovative company. But an idea need not be artistic or world-changing to count as creative. Life requires daily acts of ingenuity and novel workarounds; in this sense, almost everyone possesses some amount of creativity. Creativity demands the ability to view things in new ways or from a different perspective, while generating new possibilities or new alternatives te reflect thee alternative perspectives.
Inovation and originality skills
Originality skills are typically centered around original thought and knowledge, which unleashes potential and is an integral part of idea generation. Innovation, on the other hand, is used to turn the creative idea that you come up with into a viable solution. Innovation is the specific function of entrepreneurship, whether in an existing business, a public service institution, or a new venture started by a lone individual in the family kitchen. It is the means by which the entrepreneur either creates new wealth-producing resources or endows existing resources with enhanced potential for creating wealth. Innovation is a method, a device, a system that is enacted. Through Innovation, we bring ideas into the world so they can make a tangible impact. The end result of true Innovation is something that can be marketed as a product or service.
Conceptual skills
Conceptual skills are the abilities that allow an individual to better understand complex scenarios and develop creative solutions. These skills offer the ability to approach and deal with complicated study and workplace tasks and situations in a variety of different ways. These skills are of particular importance when seeking to conceptualize and develop solutions regarding high-level theories, ideas and topics. These are also the skills individuals rely on when approaching and completing complex academic and other tasks and assignments demanding original and analytical activities.
Critical thinking
Critical thinking is the ability to analyze facts and form a judgment. Critical thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way. It is a form of emotional intelligence and someone with critical thinking skills can think clearly and rationally when the situation demands it. It allows individuals to perform their problem-solving and decision-making skills more effectively. The key critical thinking skills are: analysis, interpretation, inference, explanation, self-regulation, open-mindedness, and problem-solving.
Leadership
Leadership is the action of leading a group of people or an organization, taking risks and challenging the status quo in order to motivate colleagues, students, subordinates or followers to achieve something new and better. Leaders exist at every level, providing guidance, motivation, and clarity, and inspiring confidence among those around them. It’s important to note that a leader provides inspiration. A manager provides direction. That’s the difference. Four primary leadership styles occur: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire and transformational. A good leader should have integrity, self-awareness, courage, respect, empathy, and gratitude. They should strive to use their influence to remove roadblocks to success so that subordinates and followers can be more effective and productive while communicating and delegating effectively.
Assertiveness
Assertiveness is a skill allowing individuals to be able to stand up for their own or other people’s rights in a calm and positive way, without being either aggressive, or passively accepting “wrong”. Assertiveness enables individuals to act in their own best interests, to stand up for themselves without undue anxiety. Individuals who are high in assertiveness don’t shy away from defending their points of view or goals, or from trying to influence others to see their side. They are open to both compliments and constructive criticism, without denying the rights of others. Assertiveness is often seen as the balance point between passive and aggressive behaviour.
Commitment
Commitment is the skill or act of binding oneself (intellectually and/or emotionally) to a course of action, an idea or a system, a pledge or engagement with sincere dedication. It is considered a cornerstone of human social life. Three very important considerations or pillars apply in its pursuit, namely motivation, implicit commitment and level of personal development.
Responsibility
Responsibility means you do the things you are supposed to do and accept the results of your actions. A responsibility: something you are expected to do. Being responsible: doing the things you are supposed to do. Accepting responsibility: facing up to the consequences of our actions or decisions. Consequences are the results of our actions or decisions. Responsibility refers to the obligation to perform a certain task or comply with the rule; accountability implies answerability for the outcome of the task or process. Responsibility is imposed (obligation) whereas accountability is accepted (moral question).
Cultural Tolerance
In the United Nations’ “Declaration of Principles on Tolerance,” tolerance is defined (Article 1.1.) as “respect, acceptance, and appreciation” of cultural diversity and ways of being human. Cultural tolerance can be seen as the ability of global leaders to endure and/or manage subordinates from different cultures towards accomplishment of common or organizational goals and objectives. Tolerance isn’t just synonymous with respect, it also means acceptance and appreciation of the diversity of our world’s cultures. It is the catalyst that opens people’s minds to understanding others and embracing our differences so we can complement each other and contribute towards a common greater good.
Loyalty
Loyalty, general term that signifies a person’s devotion or sentiment of attachment to a particular object, which may be another person or group of persons, an ideal, a duty, or a cause. Loyalty is usually seen as a virtue, albeit a problematic one. It is constituted centrally by perseverance in an association to which a person has become intrinsically committed as a matter of his or her identity. Its paradigmatic expression is found in close friendship, to which loyalty is integral, but many other relationships and associations seek to encourage it as an aspect of affiliation or membership: families expect it, organizations often demand it, and countries do what they can to foster it. Loyalty stands as an important quality that will allow you to develop a stronger emotional connection with the people around you. It helps other people feel assured about you when they know you can commit to things, and you won’t leave them halfway through.
Cultural Tolerance
In the United Nations’ “Declaration of Principles on Tolerance,” tolerance is defined (Article 1.1.) as “respect, acceptance, and appreciation” of cultural diversity and ways of being human. Cultural tolerance can be seen as the ability of global leaders to endure and/or manage subordinates from different cultures towards accomplishment of common or organizational goals and objectives. Tolerance isn’t just synonymous with respect, it also means acceptance and appreciation of the diversity of our world’s cultures. It is the catalyst that opens people’s minds to understanding others and embracing our differences so we can complement each other and contribute towards a common greater good.
Respect
Respect means that you accept somebody for who they are, even when they’re different from you or you don’t agree with them. Our personal definitions of respect are influenced by our personality, emotions, preferences, and cultural context. Respect in your relationships builds feelings of trust, safety, and wellbeing. Respect doesn’t have to come naturally – it is something you learn. It implies an attitude of deep admiration for someone or something stimulated by their abilities, qualities, or achievements.
Tolerance
Tolerance is a virtue associated with a capacity to endure discomfort or hardship following one’s own decision or act of allowing a sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one’s own. It is a version of the golden rule that, insofar as we want others to treat us decently, we need to treat them decently as well. It is also a pragmatic formula for the functioning of society, as we can see in the omnipresent wars between different religions, political ideologies, nationalities, ethnic groups, and other us-versus-them divisions.
Operational skills
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Formal skills
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Informational skills
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Strategic skills
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