Here are some examples of skills that I list in Know Yourself, Grow Your Career: The Personal Value Proposition Workbook. Feel free to use these as a reference as you are creating your own list of skills. Please see Unit 4 of the book for more about skills.
High-Level (and Highly Transferable) Skills
Leadership Skills
Vision
Innovation/Creativity/Curiosity
Strategic Thinking and Planning
Negotiation
Communication
Influence/Political Capital
Mentoring Ability
Board/Stakeholder Management
Other High-Level Skills
Grasp of P&L/Financial Analysis
Project Management
Risk Management
Research/Due Diligence
Marketing Ability
Sales Ability
Organizational Skills
Collaboration
Team-Player Orientation
Entrepreneurial Skills
Comfort with Risk-Taking
Flexibility
Customer-Service Orientation
Results-Orientation
Resiliency
Risk Management Skills
Decisiveness
“Tough Skin”
Sense of Humor
Patience
Diplomacy
Calm/Groundedness
Work Ethic
Credibility
Integrity
Good Judgment
Self-Motivation
Motivation of Others
Empathy
Grit
Role-Specific Skills
There are also substantive skills that are specific to an individual role, some of which are transferrable among roles. When we think of high-level and role-specific skills that relate to a certain job, remember that larger skill sets can be expressed as more specific skills. For example, sales can be broken down into:
- Communication
- Passion for/Knowledge of Product or Service
- Client-Service Orientation
- Persuasiveness
- Storytelling
- Negotiation Skills
- Persistence (Follow-Up)
- Problem-Solving
For more about role-specific skills, including an example for a specific profession, please refer to pages 65-68 of Know Yourself, Grow Your Career.
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