SOM 306, Spring 2023
Name: ______________________________________________
Major: ______________________________________________
Class (Junior or Senior): ________________________________
Expected Graduation Date: _____________________________
SKILLSET ASSESSMENT
Objective:
Skillset Assessment is designed to evaluate your current development in core business knowledge and skills for the
purpose of team formation. Responses will be used to form teams with diversity of knowledge and skills. No one is likely
to score highly on all measures.
Instructions:
You are to reflect on each question based on your past behaviors and accomplishments. It is important for you to take
the time in order for you to provide an appropriate score.
Scoring Guidance:
1: Very little skill and limited/no experience
2: Some skill and experience
3: Enough skill and experience; average amongst peers
4: Very skilled and has high degree of experience
5: Great deal of skill, knowledge in applied practice
1. Business Knowledge: Finance (Understanding of the core business functions of finance)
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2. Business Knowledge: Marketing (Understanding of the core business functions of Marketing)
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3. Business Knowledge: Operations (Understanding of the core business functions of Operations)
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4. Quality Management Knowledge (Understanding of methods used to ensure outcomes meet the requirements)
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Risk Management Knowledge (risk management is thinking about what could possibly go wrong, deciding how likely
and/or catastrophic that would be, and taking action to avoid either the problem or its consequences)
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6. Problem Solving (ability to research and gather relevant information to evaluate and solve the problem)
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7. Stakeholder Relations (Builds and maintains effective relationship with team members, peers, and professors)
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8. Oral Communication (Express oneself clearly and effectively in spoken interactions with others. Effective includes
demonstration of appropriate use of grammar, words, organization, expression, and emphasis. In addition communication
includes listening, responding to others in a logical manner)
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9. Written Communication (Express oneself clearly and effectively in written communication to ensure assignments are
delivered on time. Writing includes complete sentences, proper grammar and spelling in a clear concise manner with
appropriate level of detail)
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10. Leadership (has ability to work in a class team, drive assignments timeliness, and is self-directed/autonomous)
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11. Planning (developed a plan that coordinated a team to achieve desired deliverables)
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12. Coaching and Mentoring (Demonstrated the ability to proactively coach others to help improve their contribution;
provided positive as well as constructive feedback on an on-going basis)
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13. Influence and Persuasion (Were able to secure the commitment of others to achieve goals; persuade others to embrace
recommendations, and can effectively “sell” ideas and use data to influence others)
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14. Process Management (Utilized tools and techniques to define, measure, control, report and improve processes)
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15. Innovation (Evaluated a problem and designed a solution that was implemented resulting in improved performance for
the user).
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