4C’s of Learning Skills for NxtGen Professionals

21st-Century Skills for NxtGen Professionals

The 21st-century skills is the new normal and the trending option for personal growth and professional success. Time is now to know, learn and understand clearly what that means and how it relates to things like future employability, higher education, and its impact on talent acquisition / potential hiring.

As traditional jobs and old skill-set driven economy fall victim to automation and advancing digital technology, the need for transferable skills and new knowledge about emerging technologies and competencies has increased. In this awareness module we will introduce participants to the workplace needs of the global economy, 21st-century terms and definitions, what skills are important and how are they can invest their time and efforts to update their core competencies and stay competitive and creative in life and workplace.

What Are the 4C’s of 21Century Learning Skills?

The 21st century learning skills are often called the 4 C’s: critical thinking, creative thinking, communicating, and collaborating. These skills help learners know, learn, understand and apply their acquired knowledge and hard skills (competencies) for continuous personal growth in life and sustainable professional success at workplace

• CRITICAL THINKING: Left Brain Thinking. The ability to Analyse, Argue, Compare, Reason, Define, Describe Evaluate and Explain the point, its cause and effect

• CREATIVITY: Right Brain Thinking, Ideating, Designing, Improvising, Discovering Innovating Solutions

• COMMUNICATION: Excellent and Effective Speaking, Reading, Writing and Listening using various mediums of expression

• COLLABORATION: Collective Team Working by allocating resources, evaluating, brain-storming, encouraging, leading, managing / resolving conflicts for achieving set targets / goals.

Why they’re Important for Present & Future Success

A skill is the learned ability to perform an action with determined results with good execution often within a given amount of time, energy, or both. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills.

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