Organisational Skills
- Deciding on who does what
- Organising meetings
- How to come to making decisions
- Contacting people and organisations
- Setting up rooms for meetings
- Obtaining permissions etc
- Following up activities or events
- Preparing materials
- Making appointments
Research Skills
- Selecting topics and key issues
- Identifying sources of information and accessing them
Reading - Organising material
Debating Skills
- Speaking
- Arranging your materials
- Identifying key arguments and points
- Being able to back up an argument
- Seeing many sides to an argument
- Being skilful with language
Communication Skills
- Oral communication
- Contacting and making arrangements with speakers and organisations
- Introducing and chairing meetings
- Summarising discussions
- Meeting and greeting people
- Briefing speakers
- Preparing and sending letters
- Presentation Skills for small and large groups
Team-working Skills
- Working in groups
- Allocating and agreeing tasks
- Group discussion skills
- Listening to and talking with others
- Dealing with debate and even disagreement
- Accountability to the group
- Taking responsibility and getting things done
Skills of Analysis
Reading - Thinking about arguments and viewpoints
- Identifying other views and judging them
- Finding and gathering as well as presenting facts and figures
- Preparing graphs and diagrams
Presentation Skills
- Public speaking to large or small groups
- Deciding on what to present and which arguments to use
- Structuring what you want to say
- Using visual materials to present your facts or arguments or those of others
Administrative Skills
- Writing
- Typing
- Filing
- Telephoning
- Making bookings
- Accounting for funds
- Keeping records
