Communication & Collaboration

 

Communicate Clearly

 

    Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts

    Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes and intentions

    Use communication for a range of purposes (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate and persuade)

    Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge their effectiveness a priori as well as assess their impact

    Communicate effectively in diverse environments (including multi-lingual)

 

Collaborate with Others

 

    Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams

    Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal

    Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work, and value the individual contributions made by each team member

 

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Communication

Collaboration

Creativity and Innovation

 

Think Creatively

 

    Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming)

    Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts)

    Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and maximize creative efforts

 

Work Creatively with Others

 

    Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively

    Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group input and feedback into the work

    Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas

    View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes

 

Implement Innovations

 

    Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur

 

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Creativity

Innovation

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

 

Reason Effectively

 

    Use various types of reasoning (inductive, deductive, etc.) as appropriate to the situation

 

Use Systems Thinking

 

    Analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other to produce overall outcomes in complex systems

 

Make Judgments and Decisions

 

    Effectively analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs

     Analyze and evaluate major alternative points of view

    Synthesize and make connections between information and arguments

    Interpret information and draw conclusions based on the best analysis

    Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes

 

Solve Problems

 

    Solve different kinds of non-familiar problems in both conventional and innovative ways

    Identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to better solutions

Links to related 21st Century Tools

 

Critical Thinking

Problem Solving