Core skills
Although people rarely realize it, basic general skills can decisively influence performance and interpersonal relationships, despite technical skills. Understanding their importance, we created a model with six areas and 30 distinct competencies – TREND Core Skills – intended to be valid now and in the years to come.
What are core skills?
Core skills are a set of competencies essential for professional and personal success in a constantly changing world. These skills are fundamental to facing current and future challenges in the labor market, and are recognized globally by the World Economic Forum and McKinsey.
Core skills structure
- Thinking and creativity – developing critical thinking, creativity and the ability to manage
complexity. - Personal efficiency – time management, prioritizing tasks and taking responsibility
responsibility. - Communication and teamwork – active listening, collaboration, conflict management.
- Personal leadership – results orientation, decision-making, innovation.
- Leadership from within the team – networking, negotiation, persuasion.
- Learning and adapting to change – growth mindset, integration of new things, self-
development.
Why are they important?
These skills are essential for:
- adaptability in a dynamic professional environment
- continuous personal and professional growth
- integration of new technologies and agile working methods
- developing a flexible and solution-oriented mindset.
Our approach focuses on:
- active learning through experiential workshops
- integrating technology for an interactive and efficient experience
- practical applicability through simulations and case studies
- personal development supported through self-discovery and constructive feedback.
Thinking and Creativity
GComplexity management: The ability to manage complex situations by breaking them down into simpler components.
GSystemic thinking: The ability to understand how the parts of a system work together and identify patterns in similar situations.
Personal Efficiency
Agile Working: A person's ability to work iteratively and continuously adapt to changes in the environment.
Responsibility and Commitment: Accepting responsibility and taking accountability for one's own professional goals, decisions and actions.
Communication and Teamwork
Requesting and Granting Support: The ability to perceive and understand the needs and expectations of colleagues, to provide them with support and to ask for support by conveying clear requirements and expectations.
Collar abortion and Inclusion: The ability to collaborate with others to achieve common goals and contribute to an environment where, regardless of personal circumstances or orientation, people consider the needs and desires of others, feel they can rely on others, and make decisions together.
Personal leadership
Results Orientation: The ability to distinguish between ends and means and to construct and revise strategies to achieve desired results.
Self-motivation and Autonomy: Ability to maintain a high level of motivation and energy and to independently find courses of action to achieve long-term goals.
Managing Obstacles: The ability to persevere despite obstacles, challenges, interruptions and changes, managing frustration and fatigue and bouncing back after difficult periods.
Managing Uncertainty: The ability to work productively in situations of uncertainty or when things do not go according to plan, including in situations that involve taking risks.
IniTiat and Innovation: The ability to identify and expose situations where innovation is needed for continuous improvement and to explore and implement new ideas using active learning.
Leadership from within the team
Organizational Awareness: The ability to understand how large groups of people can cooperate, coordinate, and navigate organizational procedures.
Networking and Information Exchange: Ability to develop alliances, contacts and partnerships and to exchange information with clarity and consistency.
Learning and adapting to change
Flexible Thinking. Perspective Shifting: The ability to change one's opinions, perspective, attitude, and behavior as a result of new information and to adapt to changes in the work environment.
Integrationsrarely News: The ability to demonstrate interest in the new and openness to new experiences, understanding the implications that novelty has on current and future decision-making and solution-finding processes.
Managing Your Own Development: The ability to plan one's own development by integrating formal and informal learning opportunities and identifying contexts in which to apply new knowledge and skills.