Employability Skills 4-8

Showing initiative can be seeing a problem or something that needs to done and just getting in and ___________ ___, without being asked.

• avoiding it

• doing it

• skipping it

• looking around

Initiative can be not waiting to be told what to do next but asking "_________ _____ __ _____ ________?"

• What should you me with?

• Where is the soda machine?

• What can I do next?

• Where can I go sleep?

Key Elements to Initiative and Enterprising are: 1) Ask what you can do and 2)

• Wait to be told what to do

• Just keep doing the same task

• Try to play mind games with the boss

• Don't wait to be told

The third Key Element to Initiative was:

• Be able to stop doing one task to do something which is more urgent then go back to the first task

• Start a new business

• Write the first letter of your first name and the first of your last

• Be able to stop doing one task and forgetting to go back to the first task

If you work in restaurants, Initiative means:

• Waiting for the manager to give you work

• Waiting tables only in your section

• Looking around for guests' dirty dishes

• Doing what you were asked really well

When Courtney is asked to go down and get milk, what was the task she stopped doing and then returned to later?

• Picking flowers

• Cleaning a counter

• Washing dishes

• Milking a cow

Planning an Organizing is working out what is required to get a job done and then working out ______ and _______ you'll do it.

• what and when

• where and how

• who and when

• when and how

Planning and Organizing is also about things like developing project _____________ and meeting _____________.

• masks, people

• timelines, deadlines

• plans, objectives

• goals, expectations

Planning and Organizing Key Elements are: 1) Coordinating tasks to be done. 2) _____________ ____________ and 3) Having the right tools for the job at hand.

• Making lists

• Making dinner

• Calling customers

• Making sales

At 7:54 in the video, Cody asks Jason what he'd like him to do after lunch. Cody wrote them down. Which one below was not a task Jason mentioned?

• bins need emptying

• stack some steel away

• get extra stock from the back

• some stickering needs done