Decision Making & Problem Solving – Soft Skills Cluster

DECISION MAKING & PROBLEM SOLVING – SOFT SKILLS CLUSTER

List of Soft Skills Clusters (Beta – That means I’m still working on this. Thanks for you patience.)

Main Page of Soft Skills Clusters
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Communication Skills

Decision Making & Problem Solving Skills

Teamwork & Collaboration Skills

Self-Management & Professionalism Skills

Leadership, Influence & Persuasion Skills

Related Terms

decision making & Problem Solving Skills

Creativity: To demonstrate originality and inventiveness.

Related terms: industrious, innovative.

Tip: In many industries, like gaming and computer programming, being creative and innovative are highly valued skills that can help you build a competitive advantage.

Sir Ken Robinson’s classic TED talk, Do Schools Kill Creativity? not only fueled the international debate about modern education reforms, it also made the term “education revolution” a buzz word.

Critical Thinking: Critical thinking is the art of analyzing and evaluating your thinking with the intent of improving it. It is a process that leads to skills that can be learned, mastered and used.

Related term: problem solving

Tip: The above description of critical thinking indicates that it is a skill central to the development of most other soft skills. Here are of 3 examples soft skills in action where critical thinking skills can help to improve the other skills:

Deciding how you should respond to something that is said to you. (communication, Emotional Intelligence)
Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of team members. (Teamwork, Team Building)
Making better decisions and solving problems. (decision making, problem solving)

Decision Making: The process of making a choice.

Tip: Research shows that decision making is consistently in the top ten most indemand soft skills .The word decision originally comes the Latin decidere which literally means “to cut off.” Making a decision doesn’t necessarily mean that you have cut off all other options, but it does mean that you have chosen to pursue a specific path of action or inaction.

Considering that for most people, the only way that they improve their decision making is by making bad, and sometimes costly, decisions. It would be wise for you to decide to study decision making models and pick one that works well for you.

Ingenuity: The quality of being clever, original, and inventive. This an invaluable skill. Think about it. Would you rather spend your day surrounded by idiots or people with ingenuity?

Innovation:

Problem Solving: The process of finding solutions to difficult or complex issues. Almost every business is started with the intent of solving a problem and/or filling a need.

Resourcefulness: