"Postsecondary Education Administrators"

Job Description - Part 3 - Skills Required

Part 1
Duties / Tasks Part 2
Activities Part 3
Skills Part 4
Abilities Part 5
Knowledge

Skills Needed for: "Postsecondary Education Administrators"

1) Active Listening -- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

2) Reading Comprehension -- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.


3) Critical Thinking -- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.


4) Writing -- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.


5) Speaking -- Talking to others to convey information effectively.

6) Management of Personnel Resources -- Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.


7) Judgment and Decision Making -- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.


8) Coordination -- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.


9) Time Management -- Managing one's own time and the time of others.

10) Monitoring -- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.


11) Active Learning -- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

12) Social Perceptiveness -- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.


13) Service Orientation -- Actively looking for ways to help people.

14) Instructing -- Teaching others how to do something.


15) Complex Problem Solving -- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.


16) Learning Strategies -- Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.


17) Persuasion -- Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.


18) Management of Financial Resources -- Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.


19) Negotiation -- Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.


20) Systems Evaluation -- Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.


21) Operations Analysis -- Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.


22) Mathematics -- Using mathematics to solve problems.


23) Management of Material Resources -- Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.


24) Systems Analysis -- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.

Job Description for "Postsecondary Education Administrators" continued here...

Part 1
Duties / Tasks Part 2
Activities Part 3
Skills Part 4
Abilities Part 5
Knowledge

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