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Slide 3– Identifying Your KSAs (10 minutes)

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Group discussion:

Your Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) are all the things you know and can do. Knowing
how it all fits together helps to build a competency. The purpose of education and gaining
experience is all about building your knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Knowledge comes from education, training, or experience.

 You can take a class
 You watch someone do something
 You read about it.
Skill is the ability to perform a task

 It could be riding a bike
 Driving a forklift
 Surfing the Internet
 Performing surgery

 Making a speech
 Managing a team.
Ability is something you have that helps you perform the task.
 The physical strength to lift boxes
 The coordination to ride a bike
 Being able to read and write

 Being able to pay attention
 Being able to do math to give back change.

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