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INSTITUTE OF PERSONNEL AND DEVELOPMENT. UK Glossary. SKILLS.
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INSTITUTE OF PERSONNEL AND DEVELOPMENT UK Glossary
SKILLS • Organized and coordinated pattern of the mental and/or physical activity related to object, person, event or information presented. Skills can be divided in sensor, motoric, manual, intelectual, social etc. depending on given context or on the most important typological aspect of the skill.
Life skills • The term characterizes skills needed for the ability to cope with everyday life at home and at work. Life skills can include on one hand training in telephone usage, filling in application form for unemployment support, on the other hand it can include basic home skills. The term used to cover even social skills which today are a separate but complementary group. • Perceptual skills • Ability to perceive relations between events, information, ideas, opinions etc. • Social skills • Skills that help to create successful relationships towards other people.
Self presentation course • A course designed in order to develop basic practical skills that are necessary for an individual so that he/she could obtain the position that matters. • Skills audit • The list of skills required for execution of certain task or work. • Skills transfer • Ability to perform or to manage a new function because of previous skills management in another function. This is especially important for basic skills which are unifying and transferable for the performance in the wide range of functions. • Task • The main part of the work or combination of such parts that lead to accomplishment of specific result.