Benchmarking | Bias for Action |
Budgets | Building Rapport |
Business Acumen | Business Analysis |
Candor | Change Management |
Coaching | Coding |
Communication | Consensus Building |
Constructive Criticism | Cost Reduction |
Creativity | Critical Thinking |
Customer Service | Data Analysis |
Data Science | Dealing with Criticism |
Design | Design Thinking |
Determination | Difficult Conversations |
Diligence | Dispute Resolution |
Enthusiasm | Entrepreneurship |
Facilitation | Financial Management |
Forecasting | Generating Revenue |
Goal Planning | Governance |
Honesty | Human Resources |
Imagination | Influencing |
Information Technology | Initiative |
Innovation | Inventiveness |
Languages | Leadership |
Learning | Listening |
Maintenance | Management |
Managing Expectations | Market Research |
Marketing | Mentoring |
Message Framing | Metrics |
Motivating | Negotiation |
Networking | Non-verbal Communication |
Operations | Optimization |
Personal Resilience | Planning |
Presentations | Problem Solving |
Procurement | Productivity |
Professionalism | Project Governance |
Project Management | Project Sponsorship |
Promotion | Public Speaking |
Quality Assurance | Recruiting |
Relational Capital | Relationship Management |
Reliability | Reporting |
Requirements Analysis | Research & Development |
Risk Management | Sales |
Self Management | Self-Direction |
Setting Expectations | Social Skills |
Sourcing | Stakeholder Management |
Statistics | Strategy |
Supervision | Taking Responsibility |
Team Building | Technology |
Testing | Time Management |
Tolerance for Disagreement | Training |
Troubleshooting | Trustworthiness |
User Experience | Verbal Communication |
Visual Communication | Win-win Thinking |
Work Quality | Work-Ethic |
Professional Skills
Abilities that directly relate to your work. This can be acquired with education and experience. For example, a business analyst with the mathematical abilities and industry experience required to forecast sales for a product.
Technical Skills
Skills related to information technology and data. This typically has three levels: the ability to use technology, the ability to develop it and the ability to architect it.
Soft Skills
Skills that are difficult to acquire, measure or transfer. For example, verbal communication is a skill that can take decades to fully master such that it isn't something that can easily be taught or accurately measured on an exam.
Personal Effectiveness
Character traits and habits that are helpful to a professional role. For example, a nurse manager who is compassionate, assertive and decisive.
Summary
Professional strengths are talents, character traits, professional habits, abilities, skills and knowledge that are useful to a profession.
