5 Personal Core Competencies for the 21st Century
In an article by
Sean Silverthorne, he notes that every change in history requires people and organizations to develop core competencies or skills needed to be successful.
So; “What are the core competencies needed in this century?”
Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Helen Haste identified five that should not only be taught to students, but should be brought into our companies and careers.
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- Managing Ambiguity. “Managing ambiguity is that tension between rushing to the clear, the concrete, and managing this ambiguous fuzzy area in the middle.
- Agency and Responsibility. “We have to be able to take responsibility and know what that means. Being an effective agent means being able to approach one’s environment, social or physical, with a confidence that one actually will be able to deal with it.”
- Finding and Sustaining Community. “Managing community is partly about that multitasking of connecting and interacting. It’s also, of course, about maintaining community, about maintaining links with people, making sure you do remember your best friend’s birthday, that you don’t forget that your grandmother is by herself this weekend, and of course recognizing also that one is part of a larger community, not just one’s own private little world.”
- Managing Emotion. “Really it’s about getting away from the idea that emotion and reason are separate.
- Managing Technological Change. “When we have a new tool, we first use it for what we are already doing, just doing it a bit better. But gradually, the new tool changes the way we do things. It changes our social practices.
