Acceptance: recognising the reality of a situation, and not attempting to change it or protest it

Accuracy: the ability to be exact or precise

Adaptable: able to adjust to new conditions

Advocacy: the act of speaking on behalf of or in support of another person

Ambitious: desire and determination to succeed

Analysis: the process of examining something carefully to understand it or explain it

Articulate: the ability to speak fluently and coherently

Assertive: behaving confidently and feeling able to say what you want or believe

Attention to detail: focus or concentrate on an action or thing

Budgeting: calculating how much money must be earned or saved and planning how to spend it

Calm under pressure: the ability to manage your emotions and remain calm in difficult situations

Can-do attitude: showing a determination or willingness to take action and achieve results

Caring: kind and giving emotional support to others

Challenge assumptions: questioning things before making decisions/conclusions

Collaboration: working with someone to produce something

Commitment: willingness to give your time and energy to something

Communication: the ability to convey or share ideas and feelings effectively (Verbal, written and nonverbal)

Compassion: showing someone kindness, care or sympathy

Competitive: strong desire to be more successful than others

Comprehension: the ability to understand something

Compromise: the ability to reach an agreement with someone where there was a difference in opinion

Concentration: the action or power of focusing your attention

Confidence: feeling of self-assurance and appreciation of your own abilities or qualities

Conscientious: putting a lot of effort into your work

Considerate: being kind and helpful

Cooperative: working with others towards a common purpose or benefit

Creative thinking: the ability to produce original and unusual ideas, or to make something new or imaginative

Critical thinking: the ability to analyse information objectively and make a reasoned judgment

Cultural awareness: having an understanding and

respect of people from different countries or other backgrounds

Curiosity: a strong desire to know or learn something

Customer service skills: the ability to make a good impression with customers

Debating: argue about a subject in a formal manner

Decision making: the process of reaching decisions effectively

Dedication: the willingness to give a lot of time and energy to something

Deductive skills: reaching an answer or a decision by thinking carefully about the known facts

Dependable: always acting consistently and sensibly

Designing: draw or plan something with a specific purpose in mind

Determination: not letting anything stop you achieve something

Diplomacy: the skill of dealing with people without offending or upsetting them

Drive: having energy and determination

Dynamic: full of energy or new and exciting ideas

Emotional intelligence: the ability to recognise, understand, and manage your own emotions, and sense the emotional needs of others

Empathy: the ability to share another person’s feelings and emotions as if they were your own

Empowering: having qualities that help other people feel more confident about themselves and their lives

Encouraging: giving people hope or confidence

Energy: having strength and vitality for sustained physical or mental activity

Enquiring mind: great interest in learning new things

Enterprising: willing to try out new, unusual ways of doing or achieving something

Enthusiastic: having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval

Entrepreneurial: someone who makes money by starting their own business, especially when this involves seeing a new opportunity and taking risks

Ethical: believing in things that are morally good or correct

Experimentative: trying out new ways of doing things or ideas to find out what works best

Eye for detail: attentive to things others might miss

Face challenges head on: confronting a problem directly and openly

Fair: treating someone in a way that is right or reasonable

Flexible: able to change or be changed easily according to the situation

Focus: act of concentrating interest or activity on something

Follow processes: ability to follow a series of actions, instructions, or functions bringing about a result

Global awareness: understanding of global and cultural perspectives with social, political, economic, cultural and environmental issues

Grammatical skills: following the correct rules for a particular language

Graphical skills: ability to understand and interpret graphs, charts and maps

Growth mindset: having the belief that you can improve intelligence, ability and performance

Helpful: helping others in some way by giving support, advice or information

Honest: telling the truth and not deceiving people

Imaginative: good at thinking of new, original, and clever ideas

Improvisation: arranging something without previous preparation

Inclusive: including many different types of people and treating them all fairly and equally

Independent: not influenced or controlled by other people, events, or things

Influential: having an impact on or shaping how people act or how things occur

Initiative: the ability to use your own judgment to make decisions without asking another person’s advice

Innovative: using new methods or ideas

Inquisitive: wanting to discover as much as you can about things

Inspiring: encouraging, or making people feel they want to do something

Integrity: honest and firm in your moral principles

Interpreting: understanding the meaning or significance of something

Intuitive: able to know or understand something because of feeling rather than facts or proof

Investigation: an active effort to find out something

Inventive: good at thinking of new and original ideas

IT skills: the skills needed to use the primary functions

of ICT to retrieve, assess, store, produce, present and exchange information

Kind: having a friendly and generous nature

Language skills: having a good command of one or more languages

Linguistic skills: being well versed in the grammar, structure, phonology, and semantics of one or more languages

Leadership: the ability to lead or guide other individuals and teams

Listening: giving attention to something or to a person who is speaking

Literacy skills: the skills needed for reading and writing

Logical: using reason to construct a logical argument

Love of learning: being motivated to acquire new skills or knowledge

Loyal: remaining firm in a friendship or support for a person or thing

Manual dexterity: ability to use your hands to perform a difficult action skilfully and quickly so that it looks easy

Marketing: ability to encourage people to buy a product or service

Mathematical modelling: a process in which real-life

situations and relations in these situations are expressed by using mathematics

Mediation: intervention between conflicting parties to promote reconciliation, settlement, or compromise

Memory: the ability to remember information, experiences, and people

Methodical: doing something according to a systematic or established procedure

Mindfulness: being mindful of what you are thinking and making a choice about where to focus your attention

Money management: the process of budgeting and planning how to spend money

Motivating: encouraging someone to have interest in or enthusiasm for something

Multitasking: doing more than one thing at the same time

Negotiation: the process of discussing something with someone in order to reach an agreement with them

Networking: process of meeting and talking to a lot of people to get information that can help you

Numeracy skills: basic mathematical skills such as understanding and analysing numerical information and express ideas and situations using numerical or mathematical information

Observant: Quick to notice or perceive things

Open minded: willing to consider ideas and opinions that are new or different to your own

Organisation: able to plan your activities and time efficiently

Passionate: having or showing strong feelings or beliefs

Patience: the ability to wait, or to continue doing something despite difficulties

Perceptive: good at noticing or realising things, especially things that are not obvious

Perseverance: continued effort and determination

Perspective: the ability to think about a situation or problem in a reasonable way

Persuasive: ability to influence a person’s beliefs, attitudes, or behaviours

Planning: the process of deciding in detail how to do something before you actually start to do it

Positive attitude: a person with a sunny, positive outlook on life

Positive role model: a person whose behaviour or success can be emulated by others, especially by younger people

Practical: ability to provide effective solutions to problems especially by the practical application of something rather than with theory and ideas

Presentation: feeling comfortable speaking to a group of people

Prioritising: arranging and doing things in order of importance

Proactive: acting in a way that is intended to cause change, rather than just reacting to change

Problem solving: the ability of find solutions to difficult or complex issues

Productive: producing or doing a lot for the amount of resources used

Professional: connecting with trained and skilled people in a serious of manner

Public speaking: ability to give speeches to groups of people

Questioning: showing an interest in learning new things

Realist: accepting of situations as they really are

Reasoning: thinking about something in a logical, sensible way

Recognise patterns: ability to identify common themes to help make decisions

Record keeping: organising and storing documents, files, and accounting

Reflective: ability to reflect on your own actions and engage in a process of continuous learning

Reframing: changing the way something is expressed so it can be considered from a different perspective or in a more positive light

Reliable: can be trusted or believed

Research: investigate systematically

Resilience: capacity to recover quickly from difficulties

Resourceful: skilled at solving problems and making decisions on your own

Respectful: showing politeness, honour, or admiration to someone or something

Responsible: having good judgment and the ability to act correctly and make decisions on your own

Risk taker: being willing to do things that involve danger or risk in order to achieve a goal

See the big picture: see the entire perspective on a situation or issue

Self-advocacy: the ability to represent your own views or interests

Self-awareness: conscious knowledge of your own character and feelings

Self-care: any activity that we do deliberately in order to take care of our mental, emotional, and physical health

Self-discipline: ability to control your feelings and overcome weaknesses

Self-motivation: able and willing to work without being told what to do

Self-presentation: expressing yourself and behaving in a way to create a desired impression

Self-regulation: the ability to monitor and manage your behaviour, emotions, and thoughts in the pursuit of long-term goals such as well-being

Self-sufficient: able to take care of yourself, to be happy, or to deal with problems, without help from other people

Sense of humour: ability to perceive humour or appreciate a joke

Share ideas: working together with others by discussing different viewpoints and suggestions

Sociable: friendly and enjoy talking to other people

Social action skills: includes volunteering, giving money, community action or simple neighbourly acts

Social intelligence: the ability to understand and interact with other people

Social responsibility: a feeling of obligation towards the welfare and interests of the society

Speaking: the oral transmission of information or ideas

Spontaneous: doing something in a natural way without any planning

Strategic: systematic process of envisioning a desired future and planning a sequence of steps to achieve it

Stamina: the ability to sustain prolonged physical or mental effort

Strong work ethic: a belief in the moral value of work

Supportive: providing encouragement or emotional help to others

Synthesis: taking large quantities of information and processing it in such a way that it can be understood in brief but still retaining essential details

Team work: the collaborative effort of a team to achieve a common goal in the most effective and efficient way

Technical ability: specific talents and expertise to help you perform a certain task or job

Tenacity: being very determined and seeing things through

Time management: using the time that you have available in a useful and effective way

Thorough: being detailed and careful

Translation: conversion of something from one form into anothe 

Trustworthy: able to be relied on as honest or truthful

Tolerance: willingness to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own

Value diversity: promoting and supporting differences between people and cultures

Vision: ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom

Willing to embrace change: accepting change as a positive development in your life

Willing to try new things: being prepared to join in with or to try a new, difficult, or dangerous activity

Zest: having enthusiasm and energy

3D Spatial Reasoning: the capacity to think about objects in 3D and draw conclusions from limited information