Eskind Biomedical Library

•  Body language
•  Clarity of message
•  Communication skills (oral and written)
•  Comprehends communication from others
•  Ensures understanding
•  Internal relationship building
•  Listening skills
•  Organized communication

Productivity tools  

•  Creates win/win solutions
•  Needs assessment
•  Seeks to understand customers
•  Service development and management

•  Ability to set goals and priorities
•  Analytic ability and problem solving
•  Decisive
•  Develops and considers alternatives
•  Evaluates multiple solutions
•  Evaluation and synthesis of information
•  Judgment

•  Analyzes information
•  Database Searching
•  Information needs assessment
•  Organizes information
•  Print resources
•  Seeks information

•  Consultation/reference interview
•  Information needs/info-seeking behavior

•  Challenges paradigms
•  Creativity
•  Ensures relevance
•  Facilitating
•  Gains commitment
•  Innovativeness
•  Inspiring
•  Leverages diverse resources/thinks broadly
•  Vision

•  Information facilitation
•  Information use

•  Promotes the success and integrity of others

•  Applies knowledge or skill
•  Builds skills and performs complex tasks in area of expertise
•  Intellectual curiosity/lifelong learning
•  Knowledgeable
•  Maximizes learning
•  Scholarly communications
•  Seeks learning activities
•  Takes risks in learning
•  Value of education
•  Willingness to learn

•  Ability to handle stress
•  Ability to read others
•  Accountability
•  Adapt to constituency (faculty, staff, students, etc.)
•  Adaptability/Flexibility
•  Assertiveness
•  Attention to detail
•  Character (ethical, integrity, principled, credible)
•  Charisma
•  Common sense
•  Competitive
•  Conflict resolution
•  Constructive criticism
•  Courage to challenge/defend ideas/make hard decisions
•  Culture of trust
•  Dedication/Commitment
•  Diplomacy
•  Discloses own positions
•  Emotional intelligence
•  Empathetic
•  Energy/Enthusiasm
•  Fair
•  Humility
•  Humor
•  Interpersonal relations
•  Interpersonal sensitivity (tolerance, cultural awareness)
•  Intuitiveness
•  Motivation
•  Operates with integrity
•  Optimism
•  Participates
•  Patience
•  Perspective
•  Persuasive
•  Proactivity
•  Quick thinking
•  Receptive
•  Resilience
•  Respect (self and others)
•  Self confidence
•  Self knowledge
•  Social skills
•  Takes responsibility
•  Trust

•  Encouragement/Recognition
•  Encourages others to take responsibility
•  Evaluates performance
•  Sets performance goals
•  Supervisory skills

•  Compliance
•  Confidentiality
•  Diversity/Equal opportunity
•  Follows legal guidelines

•  Ensures high quality
•  Follow-through
•  Goal orientation
•  Multitasking
•  Organized
•  Planning
•  Prioritizes
•  Productivity
•  Results oriented
•  Schedules
•  Stays focused
•  Time management

•  Copyediting
•  Developmental editing
•  General editing
•  Proofreading

•  Ability to work in teams