Functional Skills
Written by Mitch McCrimmon
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Functional skills are your professional or technical skills, such as:
- Marketing
- Finance
- IT
- Human Resources
- Operations
- Sales
- R&D
- Also: Being a lawyer, doctor, geologist, engineer or lab technician.
- These skills are more specialized and less transferable across industries.
- Your marketability depends on the strength and demand for your skills.
- Increasing complexity forces us to specialize even more.
- But the rate of change increases the risk of obsolescence.
- Diversification takes time and dilutes your focus but decreases this risk.
- How is your balance between diversification and specialization?
- Developing new functional skills is one way of broadening yourself.
- As is acquiring new generic work skills
- Which functional skills should you develop to align with your personal vision?
- How is relying on your functional skills holding back your development?
- How can you move out of your comfort zone where you need to succeed without relying on these skills?
- How can your other strengths and strategic assets help you in this regard?
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