Skills

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Main article: Ability

A skill is an ability, usually learned, to perform actions.

Examples include:

• Interpersonal communication
  • Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills
  • listening, talking
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Nonverbal communication

• Motor skills
  • Fine motor skills
  • Gross motor skills
• Visual skills

Contents 1 Skills taught in clinical settings 2 Skills in educational setting 3 Skills in the workplace 4 See also

[edit] Skills taught in clinical settings

• Budgeting skills
• Coping skills
• Social skills see Social skills training
• Stress management

[edit] Skills in educational setting

• Academic skills
  • Basic skills
    • Numeracy - writing, reading
    • Literacy
  • Computer skills
  • Critical reasoning
• Critical skills
  • Language skills
  • Logic
  • Refusal skills
  • Study skillls

[edit] Skills in the workplace

• Employee skills
• Innovation Skills
• Skilled labor
• Skilled worker
• Skill (labour)
• Skilled industrial workers
• Skills management
• Transferable skills analysis

[edit] See also

• Competence
• Focal Skills
• Four stages of competence
• Game of skill
• Human development theory
• Incompetence
• Individual capital
• Life skills
• Skill learning
• Skills for care
• Skills for life
• Soft skills

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