CORE Strengths
CORE Strengths
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Innovation
The creation, implementation, and adoption of novel ideas to generate and deliver value.
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Strategy
The design and implementation of a comprehensive plan to ensure success.
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Leadership
The ability to influence, motivate, and guide others to achieve a goal or better one's community.
LEADERSHIP
“MiddCORE helped me to understand that leadership is not a characteristic that people are born with. Leadership is not something that is found but rather, something that is created within someone through recognition of potential and an opportunity to practice.”
- Steven Kasparek (MiddCORE Graduate)
Relevant Skills
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Attentiveness
Understanding the situation and context of one's surroundings to identify potential opportunities and threats
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Empathy
Understanding the perspectives and experiences of others by focusing on their behaviors and how they communicate
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Self-Awareness
Conscious knowledge of your own character and the ability to monitor your feelings, motives, and desires.
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Critical Thinking
An objective analysis and evaluation of a situation in order to formulate a judgement, decision, or plan of action.
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Managing Ambiguity
The ability to cope with change and make decisions when given unclear or incomplete information.
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Failing Forward
Ability to identify failed efforts, learn from the outcomes, and develop an improved version of a product, process, or policy.
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Teaming
The capacity to identify essential collaborators and bring them together to achieve a goal or generate a solution to a problem.
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Persuasion
Changing a person's (or group's) attitude, bias, or behavior toward some person(s), idea, or object.
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Networking
Developing relationships to gain knowledge, identify opportunities, and serve your colleagues' interest.
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Negotiation
Reaching a mutual and acceptable agreement when two or more parties have different interests over an issue.
SELF AWARENESS
“I feel more confident, more self-assured, and more aware of the environment around me. I think I will be a much better team member and a leader because of MiddCORE.”
- Kelly Benson (MiddCORE Graduate)
Important Principles and Concepts
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Design Thinking
A framework used to generate creative solutions to problems that are perceived to be complex.
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Elicitation
Interacting with others to gather information or gain knowledge in order to solve problems, identify opportunities, or gain a be
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Ideation
The process of identifying a particular question or problem to generate, develop, and communicate new ideas to address it.
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Validation
An assessment of a product, process, or plan to substantiate its correctness, and ability to deliver the intended outcome.
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Conflict Resolution
A process aimed at alleviating or eliminating disputes and differences in order to restore peace and cooperation.
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Crisis Management
The implementation of a plan designed to mitigate or eliminate an unforeseeable and significant negative event.
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Financial Literacy
The understanding and skill to invest, spend, and save financial resources to fulfill an individual’s personal goals.
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Visual Communication
The use of images and symbols to persuade, entertain, and inform an audience of one’s idea and message.
DESIGN THINKING
“I wish I had done this much sooner. The design thinking process is so applicable in an academic setting. As for post-college, this has been invaluable, and I feel more confident going out in the workforce.”
- Molly Talbert (MiddCORE Graduate)