Unit 1: Durable Skills Assessment

Definition: the way someone thinks, feels, and behaves : someone's personality, a set of qualities that make a person different from other people

• Character

• Mindfulness

• Fortitude

• Metacognition

Definition: the ability to make new things or think of new ideas

• Critical thinking

• Creativity

• Communication

• Leadership

Definition: the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment

• Critical thinking

• Fortitude

• Growth mindset

• Leadership

A benefit to this style of leadership is quick decision making

• Autocratic

• Democratic

• Non-Verbal

• Laissez-faire

Productivity of employees may suffer working under this type of leader

• Laissez-faire

• Democratic

• Verbal

• Autocratic

Which type of leadership style involves the manager making all the decisions?

• Laissez-faire

• Autocratic

• Democratic

• Interpersonal

Verbal, Non-Verbal, Written, and Visual are all forms of

• Leadership

• Collaboration

• Communication

• Team-Building

Jeremiah, Kayla, and Simon are all working together to create a new marketing strategy for a telecommunications company in San Francisco, California. Which of the following durable skills are they engaging in?

• Collaboration

• Fortitude

• Punctuality

• Character

John, an advertising executive for Publix, created an advertisement for a local billboard. After submitting the design to the billboard company, he quickly realized that the dimensions he set for the advertisement were not correct. John immediately contacted the billboard company, explained his mistake, and corrected it.

Which of the following professional skills is showcased in the example above?

• Collaboration

• Appearance

• Punctuality

• Accountability

Sarah, an employee of a large software company in Silicon Valley, California, was just fired from her job for being late to work 3 times in the past 3 months. Which of the following professional skills did Sarah lack?

• Ethics & Morality

• Ingenuity

• Accountability

• Punctuality