21.9-12.ES.1
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Communicate and work productively with others, incorporating different perspectives and cross cultural understanding, to increase innovation and the quality of work.
Work appropriately and productively with others
- Set goals
- Effectively communicate with group and stakeholders
- Demonstrate respectful behavior to group member ideas and opinions
- Manage and resolve conflict when appropriate
- Lead or support when appropriate
- Determine people’s strengths and assign roles accordingly
- Contribute to a team by sharing information and expertise
- Agree to disagree in a respectful manner in a group dynamic
- Collaborate effectively with other teams/team members toward a common goal
- Recognize own and other’s good efforts
Use different perspectives to increase innovation and the quality of work
- Gather input from all group members
- Capitalize on the diversity of group members
- Accept and provide feedback in a constructive and considerate manner
Use all the appropriate principles of communication effectively
- Listen to understand and appreciate the points of view of others
- Listen for comprehension
- Listen for decision making
- Process information in order to make an informed decision
- Ask appropriate questions in seeking clarification
- Read, understand and create information presented in a variety of forms (e.g. words, charts, graphs, diagrams)
- Follow directions
- Express thoughts and ideas clearly and succinctly
- Use appropriate technology to communicate
- Use appropriate channels of communication (written, verbal, technical, visual)
21.9-12.ES.2
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Adapt to various roles and responsibilities and work flexibly in climates of ambiguity and changing priorities.
Adapt to varied roles, responsibilities, and expectations
- Work independently or as a part of a team
- Learn from mistakes and accept feedback
- Carry out multiple tasks or projects
- Continuously monitor the success of a project or task
- Identify ways to improve project or task
- Consider multiple perspectives and represents a problem in more than one way
- Accept others; tolerant of differences
Work effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities
- Cope with uncertainty; quickly and calmly change focus and goals as the situation requires
- Demonstrate a sense of comfort with lack of structure
- Remain composed and focused, even under stress
- Adapt to changing requirements and information
- Respond openly and constructively to change
- Approach conflict from win-win perspective
Demonstrate appropriate risk-taking
- Provides innovative and resourceful engagement
- Identifies and suggests alternative ways to achieve goals
- Asks “what if”
- Brainstorms effectively
- Questions assumptions in a non-confrontational manner
21.9-12.ES.3
Use interpersonal skills to influence and guide others toward a goal
- Positively support the work of others
- Facilitate and delegate responsibilities to best accomplish goal(s)
- Build relationships
- Engage in the tasks to accomplish goal
- Know when to listen and when to speak-up
- Maintain an open mind
- Provide constructive feedback
Leverage the strengths of others to accomplish a common goal
- Communicate effectively
- Collaborate effectively
- Appreciate ideas of others
- Facilitate compromise that can lead to group consensus
Demonstrate integrity and ethical behavior
- Accept ownership for actions
- Demonstrate trustworthiness and honesty
- Make decisions based on important core values
Demonstrate mental, physical, and emotional preparedness to accomplish the task
- Organize required materials in a readily accessible format
- Focus and become energized on the task objectives
21.9-12.ES.4
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Demonstrate initiative and self-direction through high achievement and lifelong learning while exploring the ways individual talents and skills can be used for productive outcomes in personal and professional life.
Perform work without oversight
- Assesses the situation and identify the priority/necessary actions to be taken
- Understand the value of the task in relationship to greater goal
- Understand that incomplete work-- even if excellent--is a failure
- Model self-confidence
- Know how to find and evaluate appropriate resources
- Implement solutions
- Demonstrate commitment to self/group/society
Use time efficiently to manage workload
- Segment task into logical steps with appropriate estimates of time
- Build a timeline to facilitate completion of the task
- Prioritize steps in proper order
Assess one’s own mastery of skills
- Understand the task
- Identify the depth and breadth of knowledge to be successful at a task
- Identify and utilize appropriate measure of knowledge
Set and achieve high standards and goals
- Understand incremental steps for acquiring goals
- Create a written plan
- Set realistic goals that match aptitudes
- Engage in activities to improve skills that are relative to goals
- Demonstrate core values
- Constructively evaluate progress and takes corrective action when necessary
Engage in effective problem solving process
- Transfer learning from one domain to another
- Identify partners and resources germane to the situation
- Evaluate and select the best resources in context of the problem, and allocates them appropriately
- Identify root cause of problem
- Detail a course of action in writing with sequence of steps involved
- Implement a solution and makes adjustments when there is need/opportunity for improvement
21.9-12.ES.5
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Demonstrate productivity and accountability by meeting high expectations.
Deliver quality job performance on time
- Recognize and understand required standards needed for successful completion
- Set goals and establish timelines to reach required standards
- Establish assessment checkpoints throughout work processes
- Identify quality control issues and makes needed adjustments to correct problems
- Take initiative to see job completed without compromising quality
- Reassess process on a regular basis to identify any opportunities for improvement
- Demonstrate ethical behavior and works responsibly, reliably, and collaboratively with others
Demonstrate accountability for individual performance
- Come to work regularly and is on time all of the time
- Stay productive when on the job
- Take initiative to help others when own work is completed
- Accept responsibility for errors and corrects errors
- Learn from mistakes
- Follow through with work assignments
- Demonstrate willingness to work overtime
- Demonstrate flexibility to crosstrain