STIC - Health Care: Required Qualifications for
Employment
 "Employability
Skills"
ACTIVITY: Lecturette, followed by Team Skills Group
Activity
TIME: 1 hour
LEARNING OUTCOME:
Participants will understand the
three categories of general skills in demand in the Canadian labour force
and will have practised working as a team. DESCRIPTION:
- Place the Employability Skills Profile on the overhead
(Overhead 3
 ).
- Explain to participants that while specific skills are
needed for specific jobs, these are the skills that are deemed to
be highly valued by most Canadian employers.
- Go through the Employability Skills Profile with them.
Explain that there are three categories: Fundamental Skills, Personal
Management Skills and Teamwork Skills.
- Explain that teamwork skills are considered very important
yet are often the most difficult to acquire and articulate.
- Ask participants to think about the qualities they believe
a person must possess to be an effective team member. Give them three
minutes to list these qualities on Page 25 .
- Each person then ranks the items on his/her list according
to the perceived importance of each quality (with 1 representing
the most important quality of an effective team member).
- When the participants have finished their rankings,
divide them into four groups.
- The members of each group share their lists and the
rationales for their selections and then attempt to reach consensus
on the five most important qualities of an effective team member. If
consensus cannot be reached within ten minutes, the group members may
vote to determine the group's list of qualities.
- A volunteer from each group reports on the group's top
five qualities. Facilitator records on flip chart.
- Debrief: Can they identify anyone in their group who:
- took on a leadership role?
- said something that helped the group make a decision?
- expressed his/her opinion clearly and confidently?
- acted in a positive, constructive manner?
- asked someone else for his/her opinion?
- praised someone?
- Place Overhead 4 - Characteristics
of Effective Team Members - on
the projector. Are the traits they chose on the list?
- Organize participants into pairs. Instruct them to use
the questions on page 26 to
interview each other on their performance in a team situation.
- Debrief: Did knowing the characteristics of effective
team members help them to describe their role? Why are teamwork skills
so important in health care?
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Download a print version of the above lesson plan and related handouts
and overheads.
"Employability
Skills" [200
KB, 8 pages]
- Lesson Plan
- Overheads 3 - 4
- Participant Workbook page 24 - 27
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