Our Competencies

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ADAPTS TO A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

• Works effectively in a changing environment.

• Demonstrates agility in thoughts and actions.

• Shows resilience by responding productively to feedback, praise, setbacks, and criticism.

• Understands, negotiates, and balances diverse views and beliefs to reach workable solutions.

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COMMUNICATES EFFECTIVELY

• Articulates thoughts and ideas efficiently and effectively using oral, written, and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts.

• Listens respectfully and effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes, and intentions.

• Uses communication for a range of purposes, platforms, and audiences (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate, and persuade).

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POSSESSES CONFIDENCE

• Believes in one’s ability to ultimately attain a defined goal.

• Persists to overcome adversity and obstacles to uncover alternate strategies to achieve goals.

• Reflects on successes and failures as a means to refine the path moving forward.

• Takes initiative and acts with purpose and courage.

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DEMONSTRATES EMPATHY

• Demonstrates awareness, sensitivity, concern, and respect for the feelings, opinions, experiences, and culture of others.

• Imagines what others are thinking, feeling, or experiencing and connects to those thoughts, feelings or experiences.

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THINKS CRITICALLY

• Identifies and prioritizes information in a variety of forms.

• Elicits diverse perspectives and contributions to more deeply understand a topic or issue.

• Evaluates information to determine its relevance, source, and factual basis.

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SOLVES COMPLEX PROBLEMS

• Proposes solutions that are mindful of all potentially positive and negative impacts they may have.

• Reflects critically on a solution and takes appropriate action.

• Seeks, contributes, and responds to feedback to achieve collective outcomes.

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ACTS RESPONSIBLY

• Demonstrates care for the interests of the larger community and greater good.

• Honors commitments and owns the outcomes, whether positive or negative.

• Earns trust and respect through honest, principled behaviors.

• Acts with integrity by adhering to a set of core values that are evident in choices and behaviors.

• Knows how to make appropriate personal economic choices.