conceptual skill

(noun)

the ability to formulate ideas

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Examples of conceptual skill in the following topics:

  • Conceptual Thought

    • Katz saw conceptual skills as being the ability to see the significant elements in any situation.
    • Conceptual skills are probably some of the most important management skills.
    • There are some very basic principles behind conceptual skills.
    • These conceptual skills are likely to be demonstrated by a manager or executive higher in the organization.
    • Conceptual skills are probably some of the most important management skills.

  • Technical Skills

    • Examples of technical skills include project management skills for engineers building bridges, aircraft, and ships.
    • Robert Katz identified three managerial skills essential to successful management: technical, human, and conceptual.
    • Technical skill involves process or technique knowledge and proficiency.
    • These skills are easier to learn than those in the other two groups.
    • At the top management level, conceptual and design abilities and human skills are especially valuable, but there is relatively little need for technical abilities.

  • The Exchange of Value

    • Formally it may be conceptualized as the relationship between the consumer's perceived benefits in relation to the perceived costs of receiving these benefits.
    • For an individual to deliver value, one has to grow his or her knowledge and skill sets to showcase benefits delivered in a transaction (e.g., getting paid for a job).

  • Two Spices for the Business Kitchen

    • Design skills will count as much as technical knowledge when it comes to equipping American business for the future.
    • Even engineers and other "hard skills" experts are going to have to rely "more on creativity than competence, more on tacit knowledge than technical manuals, and more on fashioning the big picture than sweating the details."
    • Pink's book, incidentally, is subtitled "From the Information Age to the Conceptual Age. "

  • Identifying market needs

    • We will assess this issue of "Identifying market needs" by introducing a conceptual framework known as Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
    • Luxury goods marketers are especially skilled at catering to esteem needs on a global basis.

  • Skills for building positive relationships

    • Two key skills that promote positive relationships are negotiation and facilitation.
    • Negotiation skills can assist with problem solving and conflict resolution with partner organizations.
    • Facilitation skills deal with the understanding of group processes and feedback.
    • Negotiation skills are necessary for managers to ensure they understand the goals and tactics of others.

  • Sensitivity to Human Relations

    • Management is a functional discipline that requires a wide variety of skill sets, including organizational skills, technical skills, and people skills (or 'soft skills').
    • Effective management is often centered around people skills, as the resource being managed is primary the effort of human resources.
    • The skills required to lead from a human sensitivity perspective are often referred to as soft skills or EQ (emotional intelligence).
    • According to a research done at Eastern Kentucky University, soft skills can be summarized as the following ten attributes:
    • As you can see here, the vast majority of these skills involve integrating with human resources.

  • The paradox of skill

    • All professions require unique skills.
    • While demonstrated proficiency in particular skills is necessary for admission into a profession, skill mastery alone is not sufficient to define the professional.
    • Both trades and professions require the practice and perfection of significant skills, but a trade is completely defined by its commensurate skill; a profession is not.
    • Called The Learned Professions as the Middle Ages yielded to the Renaissance, the Priesthood, Law, and Medicine obviously required rigorous training in particular skills, but the application of these particular skills required a dimension of commitment and integrity not necessitated of a trade.
    • Both are highly skilled and wise men.

  • Long-Term Development

    • Professional development refers to skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement.
    • Professional development refers to skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement.
    • Professional development on the job may develop or enhance process skills, sometimes referred to as leadership skills, as well as task skills.
    • Some examples for process skills are 'effectiveness skills,' 'team functioning skills,' and 'systems thinking skills. '
    • While not directly relevant to, say, teachers, it nonetheless provides an important skill that may be used in case of an emergency, and thus would indirectly benefit a teacher who learns these skills.

  • The Impact of Business Owners on Success and Failure Rates

    • Without getting too specific or detailed, there are a few central skills commonly required of owners across most small businesses:
    • Different businesses require different skills.
    • A small business owner involved in building websites will need the core relevant skills to create them from scratch.
    • In short, most small business owners are the primary source of relevant skills for that particular business model (at least at first).
    • Business owners with a strong strategic ability to plan, highly developed interpersonal skills, key industry skills/knowledge, and the willingness to take risks and be accountable are poised for the highest rates of success in small business ventures.