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Personal and Professional Effectiveness

You demonstrate this competency when you:
  • Ability to actively engage and interact while working with people from a range of cultures and backgrounds.
  • Have an ability to plan and effectively use resources to achieve goals.
  • Display situational awareness and knowledge of the current local and global landscapes, industries, organizations and specific roles.
  • Have the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues both internally and externally.
  • Effectively perform within team environments including the ability to recognize and capitalize on individuals’ different thinking, experience and skills.
  • Have timely communication when your actions or communications impact others. For example, when you will be late to class or work and give advance notice to your professor or supervisor.
  • Be responsive to changing surroundings, both being flexible and proactive and displaying integrity.
  • Broadly having an ability to demonstrate an innovative approach, creativity, collaboration and risk taking.
  • Effectively adapting emotions, thoughts and behaviors to environments that may be unfamiliar, uncertain and/or diverse.
  • Solicit, accept, and apply feedback from others in an open and constructive manner.
  • Are accountable for your work and actions and follow through on your commitments.
  • Take ownership of your decisions and actions and strive to do your best work for every assigned task big or small.
  • Are productive and take initiative by seeing something that needs to be done and either doing it or figuring out ways to do it.

Related Skills

  • Self-Leadership
  • Self-Advocacy
  • Advocacy for Others
  • Planning and Organizing
  • Situational Awareness
  • Team Collaboration
  • Assertiveness
  • Change Management
  • Communication
  • Flexibility
  • Time Management
  • Active Listening
  • Growth Mindset
  • Continuous Learning

 

Employers/Graduate programs may seek demonstration of this competency through behavioral interview questions like:

  • Describe a time you had to deal with a difficult or challenging issue.
  • Give me an example of a time when you solved a problem in a creative way.
  • Tell me about a time when you applied feedback to improve your performance.
  • Tell me about a time when you demonstrated Integrity.

What are some ideas of ways you can continue to develop your competency in personal and professional effectiveness?

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Report an issue - Last updated: 10/12/2023