Understand Diversity.
Understand the opportunities and challenges of diversity on a local and global scale.
- model respect for all human diversity
- understand environmental, historical, and global trends
- assume responsibility for your actions
Never give up on excellence.
Never give up on excellence—rethink, revise, refine.
- commit to high-quality craftsmanship and excellence through reflection and revision
- critique your work using established workplace criteria
Learn to problem-solve.
Learn to problem-solve through creativity and critical thinking.
- seek out innovation and expert resources to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize
- hypothesize creative solutions and complete rigorous experiments to test them
- use data to drive decision-making
Open yourself to collaboration.
Open yourself to allow for effective collaboration.
- practice active listening and reflective dialogue
- abide by community norms
- solve problems in teams using roles and expectations to set and monitor goals
Communicate clearly.
Communicate your ideas and opinions clearly using 21st century tools.
- use precise questions to drive your investigations
- critically use a variety of media formats to express ideas clearly, creatively, and concisely
Know how to market.
Know how to market your talents using 21st Century skills.
- use social media with an understanding of the risks and power inherent in them
- understand and use the elements of discourse in the Information Age to effectively market your ideas
- analyze opportunities and challenges in order set and achieve life goals
