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KEEP IN TOUCH:
UNDERSTANDING
SKILLS
1. Trustworthiness 2. Patience
Your future success depends on the trust You need patience to learn. You need
that others feel comfortable placing on you. patience to improve and become the
Don’t forget this. Your personal brand goes best you can be. Even those you think of
with you from place to place and job to job as an overnight success, usually aren’t.
and your personal reputation is key to your They would have worked hard, prepared,
future success. Can you be trusted? Do you learned and then executed their skill or
demonstrate being trustworthy? When has talent. Demonstrating patience can be as
someone shown their trust in you? What did obvious as how you listen and wait your turn,
that look like? Were you left in charge of but it is also what you use to wait for the right
someone or something? moment – the right moment to speak,
even the right moment to make that choice
There are many ways that being trusted plays when gaming. How do you show patience
out - but just think about it for a minute, how in your life?
many ways are you trusted by those close to
and around you?
I FEEL I HAVE THIS SKILL I FEEL I HAVE THIS SKILL
3. Compassion 4. Determination
Compassion is an important trait to have in Whatever challenges you may face, a
the world we live in – showing understanding determined attitude is a very strong weapon
for others, trying to better understand to overcome them.
the views and lifestyles of others, being
less judgemental of others... being more We aren’t talking about blind optimism
compassionate. or misplaced confidence; we are talking
about facing tasks and challenges with
Empathy and compassion are qualities that a determined approach to that task and
translate into personal skills. Think about how challenge. Think about what you’ve done
understanding you have been in your past in the past or are currently doing that may
towards others and how you can continue to not even have happened without your
be mindful of this. determination.
I FEEL I HAVE THIS SKILL I FEEL I HAVE THIS SKILL
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