Future Destinations Project - Skills Build

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Planning and Organisation Activity

3. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Activity

4. Creativity and Innovation Activity

Introduction

This Skills Build provides three activities, each one concentrating on one of the Integral Skills – Planning and Organisation; Critical Thinking and Problem Solving ; and Creativity and Innovation . They will involve the Specific Skills, shown in the table, that you will need to demonstrate in the Future Destinations Project Assessment. Using your Personal Effectiveness skills, you will be able to reflect, gather feedback and evaluate how well you are doing.

Integral Skill Specific Skills

1.4 – Schedule activities and tasks.

Planning and Organisation

1.5 – Select and utilise appropriate project management techniques and/or tools.

1.6 – Define priorities and success criteria.

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

2.2 – Apply methods to solve complex problems, including focused research techniques to gather primary and secondary information.

2.7 – Construct responses that are evidence based, persuasive and convincing.

2.9 – Make valid judgements and reasoned conclusions.

Creativity and Innovation

3.1 – Generate ideas independently.

3.2 – Generate new ideas by sharing, disseminating, and building on collaborative creative thinking.

3.3 – Make connections between different information in order to support outcomes.

3.4 – Use creative thinking to analyse information and ideas.

3.5 – Consider the feasibility in implementing ideas and outcomes.

3.6 – Apply objective decisionmaking techniques to justify selection of the most appropriate idea, including the views of others where appropriate.

3.8 – Develop innovative communications that are appropriate to the audience.

4.1 – Analyse how own skills can be applied and/or developed to be personally effective.

Personal Effectiveness

4.5 – Respond to feedback and, when collaborating, give feedback to others.

4.6 – Reflect and evaluate own behaviours, performance and outcomes when working independently and/or collaboratively.