Wow! This has been an awesome response. We’ve had a 50% reply rate, and a total of 26 ideas. This is an excellent beginning, but I’m pretty sure there are way more ideas out there. Remember, this is brainstorming so that means there’s no such thing as a bad idea and there’s no such thing as too many ideas, either.
I’ve taken all the comments so far and sorted them into broad categories. This sorting is my opinion only. I’d like you to read through the table and consider:
- If the general area names are about right (we can tweak repeatedly as we go on)
- If I’ve put the comments with the correct general areas. If i haven’t, should the comments be in a different area already in the table, or a brand new area entirely?
- What areas are missing?
- What further comments should be added?
I’m looking forward to lots more comments and plenty of discussion in the posts and threads. We’re going to keep working at this stage at least until Tuesday, November 13.
If we were doing this face-to-face, I’d be asking folks specifically for their contributions, so don’t be surprised if I post something like, “Hey xperson, what do you think?”
I’m looking forward to hearing from y’all.
Looks saturated to me!
I think we’ve got pretty much all the general areas covered. The only addition I would make is to split up these general areas by Soft Skills and Hard Skills.
Here’s my recommendation based off of the document linked on the post above:
Soft Skills:
-Problem Solving
-Communication
-Professional Development
-Customer Service
-Creativity (Analysis and Aesthetics)
Hard Skills:
-Quality Assurance
-Project Management
-Creativity (Writing, Vis-Comm)
-Technical Skills
Creative thinking
Proposal writing
Email etiquette
Acceptance to fail and learn from the failure.
Autodidacticism – Must keep up-to-date in an every changing industry
User Experience (UX)
Concise communication
Use the Oxford comma
Problem Solving – Knowing how to use the internet effectively to look up issues
Project Management – Delegating tasks between team members efficiently (in cases where the actual PM didn’t specify)
Self Discipline – Doing things the right/boring/hard way to avoid mistakes (Copy-pasting text no matter how small, making incremental commits, creating a branch for an edit and doing a pull request rather than pushing to master)
Thanks, brisho! These are great.
Typing skills
Software skills (ability to use Word, Excel, Outlook, Notepad, Articulate 360, etc.)
Preparation Skills
Clear speaking
Storytelling
Identifying audience-specific needs (Tone, language, etc.)
Knowledge of accessibility requirements
This is so helpful. Thank you!