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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Participate in related Career Center programs
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Take the PathwayU Assessments on the Career Center Website
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Reflect on your goals and develop a plan with the Advising Hub and Career Center
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Participate in The Butler Center and other Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programming
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Complete skill assessments on LinkedIn
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Ask for feedback from your supervisor or professor
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Last updated: 10/12/2023