21st Century Skills: A new set of employee aptitudes
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In response to changing workplaces, educators are emphasizing a new set of aptitudes referred to as 21st Century skills. This includes the 4 Cs: critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity.
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21st Century Skills: A new set of employee aptitudes
- 1. st 21 Century Skills: A new set of aptitudes Presented by Char Hopela For Information Media 502 St. Cloud State University
- 3. Workers want “freedom from having to meet someone else’s constraints.”
- 4. In the workplace, there has to be a balance to achieve results.
- 5. Employees lost in a maze of creativity?
- 6. Curiosity + Drive P = f[M x A] Vroom 1964
- 9. The book was compelling as a collection of character studies and a treatise on business theory. ~ C. Max Magee
- 12. Involve others. Build Coalitions.
Editor's Notes
- Interesting that this is being promoted by thought leaders at the same time public schools are often stripping away subjects and activities associated with creativity, such as art and music classes.
- Interesting that this is being promoted by thought leaders at the same time public schools are often stripping away subjects and activities associated with creativity, such as art and music classes.
- In my research, I looked at the tension between employers’ productivity expectations and employees’ desire for creative workplaces.
- Without direction, sometimes creativity goes nowhere.
- Curiosity plus drive. We need employees to have both for creativity to become actualized.
- In our new economy, there’s a rush to take the lead and no one knows what’s beyond the next curve.
- Is time pressure a creativity killer?
- Tracy Kidder’s book “The Soul of a New Machine” is a case study of the development of a new minicomputer by Data General in the late 1970s.
- Complete mental involvement is very strongly related to intrinsic motivation.
- Teams rather than individuals can more effectively generate creative output in organizations (Florida and Goodnight 2005).
- The ability to network is important to mobilize support and sponsorship.
- Really new ideas are often negatively received.
- Just the thought of networking makes a lot of people sweat. It looks like it made these figures rust!