Profesional Skills Matrix
“Learning objective” is a term describing the outcomes you plan to achieve in
terms of increased knowledge, new skills, or new abilities. Examples have been
provided below. Feel free to identify your own learning outcomes.
| Skill/ Development
Area
| Ways to Practice
|
| Assertiveness |
- Serve as a fundraiser, solicit pledges or support
- Recruit others to support a cause or organization
|
| Budget Management |
- Plan or chair events with a budget
- Volunteer for a board position with finance responsibility
|
| Change Management/Strategic Awareness |
- Participate on an organization’s board
- Participate in a focus group
- Help write a group’s vision
|
| Computer Skills |
- Develop a database for an organization
- Provide data entry for a group or project
|
| Conflict Resolution |
- Serve on a board
- Manage a function or event, serve as a subcommittee chair
|
| Cultural Awareness |
- Be a tutor or mentor
- Volunteer in an activity that works closely with people unlike yourself
|
| Creativity |
- Volunteer at a children’s arts and crafts project
|
| Delegating |
- Chair a committee
- Assume a leadership role in an organization
|
| Event Planning |
- Coordinate volunteers
- Sit on a planning committee for a big event
|
| Leadership |
- Serve as a chair on a committee or event
- Be a spokesperson for a group or organization
- Work with young people as a mentor
|
| Managing People |
- Manage volunteers at a project or event
- Coordinate an event
|
| Motivating Others |
- Be a mentor
- Chair a committee
- Coordinate volunteers
- Recruit friends/colleagues to join you in a project or event
|
| Negotiating Skills |
- Obtain resources for an event or organization
- Be on a committee
|
| Organizational Skills |
- Plan an event
- Provide clerical services
- Sort donations
|
| Planning |
- Coordinate an event or activity
- Sit on a committee for an event or project
|
| Presentation Skills |
- Lead an orientation for a group/organization
- Be spokesperson for an organization
- Serve as a Project Leader or Team Captain
|
| Problem-Solving |
- Be an on-site manager for a big event
- Be a project leader
|
| Project Management |
- Coordinate an on-going project
|
| Selling |
- Fundraising
- Soliciting resources for an event or organization
- Recruiting volunteers for an event or organization
|
| Teamwork |
- Coordinate volunteers t
- Work on a rehab or building project
- Plan an event
|
| Time Management |
- Chair a committee and run the meetings
- Manage resources for an organization or event
|
| Verbal Communication Skills |
- Volunteer for an activity that uses the phone
- Chair an event
- Be a spokesperson
- Lead volunteers in an activity
|
| Written Communication Skills |
- Write a newsletter for an organization
- Write a press release
- Develop letters for fundraising
- Take meeting minutesServe as the Secretary for a group or board
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