Viking Ready

Identify and respond to needs based upon an understanding of the situational context and logical analysis of relevant information.

• Examples of expected behaviors:
  • Make decisions and solve problems using sound, inclusive reasoning, and judgment
  • Gather and analyze information from a diverse set of sources and individuals to fully understand a problem
  • Proactively anticipate needs and prioritize action steps
  • Accurately summarize and interpret data with an awareness of personal biases that may impact outcomes
  • Effectively communicate actions and rationale, recognizing the diverse perspectives and lived experiences of stakeholders
  • Exercise sound reasoning to analyze issues, make decisions, and overcome problems
  • Communicating meaning; not just data
  • Strategic planning
  • Reading comprehension
  • Business analysis
  • Innovation
  • Problem solving
  • Resolving issues
  • Works well under pressure
  • Reading Comprehension

• The ability and desire to anticipate, recognize and meet others’ needs, sometimes even before those needs are articulated. Service-oriented people focus on providing satisfaction and making themselves available to other:
  • Promote a more just society and empower others to do the same
  • Express how the reciprocal relationships between academics and service-learning experiences have helped you better understand course content
  • Make the core values and Franciscan heritage of the college practical and applicable in the real world though service-learning experiences
• Skills examples include:
  • Teamwork
  • Leadership
  • Advocacy
  • Data Assessment
  • Reflection
  • Compassion
  • Respect for Human Dignity
  • Justice and Peace

Build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals, while appreciating diverse viewpoints and shared responsibilities.

• Examples of expected behaviors:
  • Allow your strengths, knowledge and talents to complement those of others
  • Be accountable for individual contributions and team responsibilities
  • Listen to and consider the range of team member ideas and experiences
  • Exercise the ability to compromise and be agile
  • Effectively manage conflict, interact with and respect diverse personalities, and meet ambiguity with resilience
  • Be accountable for individual and team responsibilities and deliverables
  • Employ personal strengths, knowledge, and talents to complement those of others
  • Collaborate with others to achieve common goals
  • Build strong, positive working relationships with supervisor and team members/coworkers.
  • Practice emotional resiliency
  • Build collaborative relationships with colleagues and customers representing diverse cultures, races, ages, genders, religions, lifestyles, and viewpoints
• Skills include:
  • Collaboration
  • Adaptability
  • Listening
  • Negotiation
  • Shared decision making
  • Time management
  • Problem solving
  • Critical thinking
  • Interpersonal awareness
  • Responsibility

Clearly and effectively exchange information, ideas, facts and opinions with persons inside and outside of an organization.

• Examples of expected behaviors:
  • Effectively use public speaking and presentation skills in front of various-sized audiences
  • Demonstrate verbal/non-verbal abilities, such as oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to use active listening, persuasion, and influencing skills
  • Effectively address and equitably resolve disagreements
  • Promptly inform relevant others when needing guidance with assigned tasks
  • Understand the importance of and demonstrate verbal, written, and non-verbal/body language, abilities
  • Frame communication with respect to diversity of learning styles, varied individual communication abilities, and cultural differences
• Skills include:
  • Writing skills
  • Public speaking
  • Nonverbal communication
  • Communications strategy

Recognize and capitalize on personal and team strengths to achieve individual and organizational goals.

• Examples of expected behaviors:
  • Lead by example
  • Seek out and leverage diverse resources and feedback from others to inform direction
  • Understand and contribute to achieving current and future individual, team and strategic goals
  • Monitor and manage one’s own work and the work of others
  • Inspire, persuade and motivate self and others under a shared vision
  • Use innovative thinking to go beyond traditional methods
  • Serve as a role model to others by approaching tasks with confidence and a positive attitude
  • Motivate and inspire others by encouraging them and by building mutual trust
  • Plan, initiate, manage, complete, and evaluate projects
• Skills include:
  • Time management
  • Project management
  • Event planning
  • Prioritizing
  • Strategic planning
  • Resource development
  • Organizational budgeting
  • Attention to detail
  • Multi-tasking
  • Problem-solving
  • Coordination
  • Scheduling
  • Ordering your world
  • Embracing change
  • Dealing with the unexpected
  • People management
  • Diversity awareness
  • Business ethics
  • Managing difficult conversations

Understand, respect, and advocate for diverse perspectives and engagement with cross-cultural viewpoints individually, as a community and organizationally.

• Examples of expected behaviors:
  • Seek global cross-cultural interactions and experiences that enhance one’s understanding of diverse others and leads to personal growth
  • Identify resources and eliminate barriers resulting from individual and systemic racism, inequities and bias
  • Solicit and utilize feedback from multiple cultural perspectives to make inclusive and equity-minded decisions
  • Actively contribute to inclusive and equitable practices that influence individual and systemic change
  • Advocate for inclusion, equitable practices, justice, and empowerment for historically marginalized communities
  • Keep an open mind to diverse ideas and new ways of thinking
  • Demonstrate flexibility by adapting to diverse environments
  • Value, respect, and learn from diverse cultures, races, ages, genders, sexual orientations, and religions
  • Demonstrate openness, inclusiveness, and acts respectfully toward individuals with differences
• Skills include:
  • Awareness of otherness (gender, race, religion, age, disabilities, nationality, lifestyle, etc.)
  • Multiculturalism
  • Inclusion
  • Community change
  • Volunteerism
  • Civic responsibility
  • Curiosity about local, regional, national and global current events
  • Cross-cultural competence (ability to discern and account for one’s own and other’s world views)
  • People management
  • Intercultural competence
  • Nonverbal communication
  • Tolerance of change and uncertainty
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Inspiring people

Understand and demonstrate effective work habits, engage in continuous learning and act in the interest of the larger community.

• Examples of expected behaviors:
  • Act equitably with integrity and accountability to self, others and the organization
  • Be present and prepared
  • Adapt to and engage in evolving needs
  • Manage time efficiently and effectively
  • Maintain your personal brand
  • Demonstrate dependability
  • Act equitably with integrity and accountability to self, others, and the organization
  • Maintain a positive personal brand in alignment with organization and personal career values
  • Be present and prepared
  • Demonstrate dependability (e.g., report consistently for work or meetings)
  • Prioritize and complete tasks to accomplish organizational goals
  • Consistently meet or exceed goals and expectations
  • Have an attention to detail, resulting in few if any errors in their work
  • Show a high level of dedication toward doing a good job
  • Demonstrate personal accountability and effective work habits, e.g.,punctuality, working productively with others, and time workload management, and understand the impact of non-verbal communication on professional work image
• Skills include:
  • Willingness to learn
  • Cooperation
  • Self-awareness
  • Establishing interpersonal relationships
  • Tolerance of change and uncertainty

Understand and leverage digital technologies ethically and efficiently to solve problems, complete tasks and accomplish goals.

• Examples of expected behaviors:
  • Navigate change and open to learn new digital solutions
  • Enhance organizational, professional and personal efficiencies using technologies
  • Engage respectfully and responsibly across social platforms and technologies to recognize the impact, including on personal/professional brand
  • Use technology to synthesize information and data to improve performance
• Skills examples include:
  • Coding
  • Collaboration
  • Cloud software
  • Personal archiving
  • Information evaluation
  • Social media
  • Microsoft software proficiency
  • Online safety
  • Communication and “netiquette”
  • Creating digital content
  • Adapting to evolving technology
  • Navigate change and be open to learning new technologies
  • Use technology to improve efficiency and productivity of their work
  • Identify appropriate technology for completing specific tasks
  • Manage technology to integrate information to support relevant, effective, and timely decision-making
  • Quickly adapt to new or unfamiliar technologies
  • Manipulate information, construct ideas, and use technology to achieve strategic goals

Identify and articulate one’s skills, strengths, knowledge, and experiences relevant to the position desired and career goals, and identify areas necessary for professional growth.

• Examples of expected behaviors:
  • Identify areas for continual growth and pursue and apply feedback
  • Seek and embrace development opportunities
  • Show an awareness of personal strengths
  • Be mindful of other perspectives as it relates to your journey
• Skills include:
  • Analytical reasoning
  • People management
  • Time management
  • Self-awareness
  • Communications strategy