From the course: Hiring and Developing Your Future Workforce
Join today to access over 22,700 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
A new way to understand skills
From the course: Hiring and Developing Your Future Workforce
A new way to understand skills
- So we tend to use the word skill in a variety of ways. Some people use it as the label for a trade, like doctor or carpenter. Other think of it as a set of capabilities, like building a house or fixing a car, and still others think of it as a specific activity, like analyzing or synthesizing information. Research on how to categorize skills goes back to the mid 1950s from work done by a man named Sidney Fine who I first met in my late teens and thought of, kind of, as an uncle. Sidney broke skills down into three main categories, knowledges, transferable skills and self-management skills. Knowledges are those bodies of information that are rooted in a particular area. A knowledge of brain surgery probably isn't very useful outside the operating room, so it's anchored in that specific field. Transferable skills are your abilities that can be used in a range of situations. Managing teams effectively is a skill that can be used in a wide variety of work environments. Transferable…
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.