Performance Typology Map
Abilities
Attitude
Behavior
Beliefs
Competencies
Environment
EI
Experience (nurture)
Feelings
Intention/Motivation
Nature (genes)
Organizational Level
Performance
Performance Improvement
Performer Level
Process Level
Results
Skills
Social Pressure
Talent
Understanding
Values
The common factor in all these types of skills is that the performer has to match the demands of a task. This is accomplished by applying a "strategy" of performance. For example, a craftperson will select the tools and manipulate them to meet the requirements of the task. Note that these strategies are NOT normally concerned with a single response, but rather with chains or programmes of action to obtain a result. Some strategies are more efficient than others. Skill consists of choosing and implementing the most efficient strategies.
There are three main parts to a skill:
- Perception of object or events - perceiving all relevant factors.
- Choice of response - making a decision.
- Execution of the choice made - normally requires motor coordination and timing.
Social Skills
Social Skills are the interaction of one person with another. It includes the perception of needs and desires of others, and of one's effect upon others (Gregory, 1987, p. 716). This is quite similar to Emotional Intelligence and Social Pressure.Skill Gaps
The required performance minus the present performance equals the skill gap.A skill gap analysis compares the performers skills with the skills required for the job in order to identify future performance improvement opportunities.
Notes
Also, see SKA.Reference
Drucker, Peter F. (1993). Post-Capitalist Society. Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann.Gregory, Richard L. (1987). The Oxford Companion To The Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.