SCANS (Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills)

http://wdr.doleta.gov/SCANS Our American neighbours divide "workplace know-how" into two parts: Competencies and Foundation Skills

Competencies Foundation Skills
Resources
  • allocating time, money, materials, space, staff
 Basic Skills
  • listening
  • speaking
  • reading
  • writing
  • arithmetic
  • mathematics
Interpersonal Skills
  • working on teams
  • teaching others
  • serving customers
  • leading
  • negotiating
  • working well with people from culturally diverse backgrounds
Thinking skills
  • thinking creatively
  • making decisions
  • solving problems
  • seeing things in the mind's eye
  • knowing how to learn
  • reasoning
Information
  • acquiring and evaluating data
  • organizing and maintaining files
  • interpreting information
  • using computers to process information
Personal Qualities
  • individual responsibility
  • self esteem
  • sociability
  • self management
  • integrity
Systems
  • understanding social, organizational and technological systems
  • monitoring and correcting performance
  • designing or improving system
Technology
  • selecting equipment and tools
  • applying technology to specific tasks
  • maintaining and trouble shooting technologies

Compare this outline with the Conference Board of Canada outline. What is the same? What is different? Which do you think better reflects the world of work? Why?