Skills Card Sort
When I was still at school last winter, I checked out the career planning programs at the counselling services. I started off with a quick 15 minute drop-in appointment with a counsellor who told me about the different sessions and personality tests that they offered. Sign me up please!
One of the “live” sessions that I attended involved various exercises using various types of cards. One exercise was called the Skills Card Sort, which involved taking a stack of about 40 cards. Each card has a skill (as a verb) and a short description. Then we had some time to sort the cards by our strength in that particular skill.
Here are my top 21 skills (randomized):
- motivate
- invent
- analyze
- listen
- synthesize
- implement
- entertain
- organize/plan
- coach
- evaluate
- initiate
- compose
- design
- coordinate
- maintain records
- budget
- estimate
- delegate
- monitor
- problem solve
- expediate
I think part of finding something that we like to do involves playing to our strengths. What skills are you good at? In what arena do you excel at? What skills not in my top 21 can you think of for yourself?
Tags: career planning, skills, strengths
