Thinking Skills
Level 2
Business Professionals
- deal with project deadlines
- deal with equipment not working properly
- reschedule meeting times so team members can attend
Level 3
Business Professionals
- read draft reports
- decided if the draft report meets quality standards for content or writing style
- send detailed comments and suggestions to writers
- determine deadlines for second draft
- review to make sure all corrections are made
- ask for further changes
- accept or reject report
Level 2
Business Professionals
- select tasks to give to those they supervise and to subcontractors on their project teams, they
- consider their knowledge, skills, strengths, weaknesses, work experience, interests and when they are available
- choose type of graphs to show findings from project data analyses, they
- consider the strengths and limits of each graph type for showing
- particular types of data
- messages they want to stress
- level of knowledge of their audiences
- consider the strengths and limits of each graph type for showing
Level 3
Business Professionals
- review requests for proposals
- identify project tasks and needs
- bid only on projects they have the skills and resources to handle
- consider what needs to be in place to run a campaign or make organizational changes by looking at the
- cost of different options
- possibility of different options working
- replacement of workers during training
Level 3
Business Professionals
- evaluate focus groups and training sessions
- ask for feedback
- determine how to assess the feedback
- distribute evaluation forms
- evaluate standards, regulatory codes, procedures and documents to see how complete and clearly they are written to help organizations in
- operations
- quality
- performance
- environmental management
- make sure important key information is presented and that the message is clear
- evaluate how well those they supervise and the subcontractors did on their projects by
- determining if they were successful in doing project tasks, sticking to plans, schedules and timelines
- making suggestions based on findings, for future projects or further training
Level 4
Business Professionals
- evaluate how effective ad messages, product packaging and other marketing tools were in reaching their audience
- evaluate ability of organization to do what it is suppose to do (mandates)
- determine what may affect outcomes such as
- employees’ skills and performance
- knowledge transfer
- management frameworks
- logic models
- reporting relationships
- work flows
- organizational objectives and benchmarks
- collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data on those things that affect outcomes
- write reports, in which they describe how they evaluated outcomes
- discuss findings
- offer conclusions and recommend changes to clients’ business methods, policies, processes, procedures, systems and programs
- determine what may affect outcomes such as
Own Job Planning and Organizing
Business Professionals are busy with many demands on their time. Their work is
- team focused so they must make their own tasks and schedules work with others
- focused on many projects at one time
- affected by delays in getting contracts signed or receiving essential project information,
- affected by pressures from project managers and clients
- affected by equipment breakdowns
- affected by other emergencies
Job Planning and Organizing for Others
Professionals in business services to management
- organize, plan, schedule and track the activities of project teams
- give input to the long-term and strategic planning of public and private sector organizations
- give tasks to those they supervise, subcontractors and clerical staff
Business Professionals must remember
- security codes to access computers and networks
- names, specialization areas, interests and concerns of the many consultants, subcontractors and clients to
- save time
- facilitate communication
- develop positive relationships
- build trust
Level 2
Business Professionals
- find information about past consulting projects by searching reports, files and archives
Level 3
Business Professionals
- find information about potential clients, subcontractors and competitors by searching their websites, visiting their sites and interviewing colleagues who know them
Level 4
Business Professionals
- find information to address client needs and project outcomes by doing literature searches
- analyze, put information together and use information to assess business environments and develop new strategies
