The Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) was commissioned by the U.S Department of Labor to determine the skills young people need to succeed in the world of work. They titled the report: “What Work Requires of Schools.”
The results are timeless. Although, some necessary characteristics for successful workers involved basic literacy skills, much of their findings revolved around qualities of Emotional Intelligence. Here are some qualities SCANS reports is needed in the USA (world?) workplace:
• Creative Thinking–generates new ideas
• Decision Making–specifies goals and constraints, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses best alternative
• Problem Solving–recognizes problems and devises and implements plan of action
• Seeing Things in the Mind’s Eye–organizes, and processes symbols, pictures, graphs, objects, and other information
• Knowing How to Learn–uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills
• Reasoning–discovers a rule or principle underlying the relationship between two or objects and applies it when solving a problem

Take a moment………..how equipped are you in these areas? Are you developing?

This report reinforces why each of our programs addresses Emotional Intelligence (EQ) development. It is what company leaders are crying out for in their employees. It will help equip us for our tomorrow.