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Skill Element (facets of the skill that Some evidence or
employers identified as important, events where you
noting that the mix and priority of these have demonstrated
facets would vary from job to job) these skills

• Adapting to new situations
Initiative and • Developing a strategic, creative, long-term vision
enterprise that • Being creative
contribute • Identifying opportunities not obvious to others
to innovative • Translating ideas into action
outcomes • Generating a range of options
• Initiating innovative solutions

• Managing time and priorities – setting timelines,
coordinating tasks for self and with others
• Being resourceful
• Taking initiative and making decisions
• Adapting resource allocations to cope with
contingencies
Planning and • Establishing clear project goals and deliverables
organising • Allocating people and other resources to tasks
that contribute • Planning the use of resources including time
to long term management
and short term • Participating in continuous improvement and
strategic planning processes
• Developing a vision and a proactive plan to
planning accompany it
• Predicting – weighing up risk, evaluating alternatives
and applying evaluation criteria
• Collecting, analysing and organising information
• Understanding basic business systems and their
relationships

Self-management • Having a personal vision and goals
that contributes • Evaluating and monitoring own performance
to employee • Having knowledge and confidence in own ideas and vision
satisfaction and • Articulating own ideas and vision
growth • Taking responsibility

• Managing own learning
• Contributing to the learning community at the workplace
Learning that • Using a range of mediums to learn – mentoring, peer
contributes support, networking, information technology (IT), courses
to ongoing • Applying learning to ‘technical’ issues (eg. learning about
improvement products) and ‘people’ issues (eg. interpersonal and cultural
and expansion aspects of work)
• Having enthusiasm for ongoing learning
in employee • Being willing to learn in any setting – on and off the job
and company • Being open to new ideas and techniques
operations and • Being prepared to invest time and effort in learning new
outcomes skills
• Acknowledging the need to learn in order to accommodate
change

• Having a range of basic IT skills
Technology • Applying IT as a management tool
that contributes • Using IT to organise data
to effective • Being willing to learn new IT skills
execution of • Having the occupational health and safety knowledge to
tasks apply technology
• Having the appropriate physical capacity

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