noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
analytical method/techniques/approach/skills
▪ During the course, students will develop their analytical skills.
ball skills
▪ Practising ball skills helps a child’s coordination.
communication skills
▪ Most managers in business spend some time learning communication skills, so that they and their staff can understand each other.
coping skills
▪ We help people learn coping skills to deal with these pressures.
Department For Innovation, Universities, and Skills, the
exceptional talent/ability/skill
▪ He showed exceptional talent even as a youngster.
honing...skills
▪ He set about honing his skills as a draughtsman.
Learning and Skills Council, the
people skills
▪ A doctor needs people skills as well as technical knowledge.
social skills (=the ability to deal with people easily)
▪ In school, the children also learn social skills.
survival skills
▪ They learned survival skills from the local Indian tribe.
with consummate skill
▪ De Gaulle conducted his strategy with consummate skill.
writing skills
▪ a workshop to develop children's writing skills
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
analytical
▪ Dealing with capital account problems requires analytical and organisational skills which are very different from policing an overdraft.
▪ Her superb analytical skills will find a less adversarial niche.
▪ The emphasis is on the development of critical and analytical skills.
▪ His excellent analytical skills were clearly apparent.
▪ Ability to apply sound analytical skills to a creative process.
▪ Some firms prefer candidates with business backgrounds because business courses emphasize quantitative analytical skills.
▪ These professional advisers will need statistical and analytical skills as well as expertise in drug therapy.
▪ Because of their quantitative and analytical skills, the demand for economics graduates is buoyant.
basic
▪ There is, however, considerable concern amongst employers about basic skills including literacy and numeracy.
▪ No one expects a newborn baby to go out and get a job before learning the basic life skills and getting schooling.
▪ If you have followed the advice and tried the exercises you will understand a little better the basic skills of studying History.
▪ One approach is to teach your child basic fitness skills early.
▪ The emphasis was rather upon providing children with basic skills.
▪ It also encourages people to become articulate, especially through group discussion, and places great emphasis upon the basic skills.
▪ This manifests itself most obviously at the technical level where the same basic skills can be applied in different markets.
different
▪ They began to see that they would have to develop different approaches and skills for handling relationships with different kinds of people.
▪ A survey by the Engineering Industry Training Board found that the technology widened the gap between people with different levels of skills.
▪ If a network is trained rather than programmed, a different set of skills will be required.
▪ It is important to remember that labour is heterogeneous in the sense that different workers possess different skills and abilities.
▪ Governing not only requires very different skills, it may also require different personnel.
▪ The training had been successful, he said, in bringing about alignment of different skills and improving business understanding.
▪ He or she has to have a very different skill set.
great
▪ General Leclerc's troops had shown great skill and speed, Gracey said, but much unnecessary brutality.
▪ They both worked hard and had great skill.
▪ The tenants gain great skill and experience over the years in serving the public and in running their public houses.
▪ Much of my great skill with dishes comes from this machine.
▪ Yet beer - good beer - is a highly complex product and one that arguably needs greater skill to produce than wine.
▪ Thinking on your feet is a great skill.
▪ The construction of a written case demands perhaps even greater skills than the preparation of oral argument.
▪ It's an exciting game that calls for great skill.
interpersonal
▪ The tutor will provide instruction in methodologies involved in an investigation and in the interpersonal skills which may be required.
▪ They too need to learn the problem-solving, decision-making, teamwork, and interpersonal skills necessary to both team and individual performance.
▪ Much of Sue's outreach work is within an education setting, developing drama, music and interpersonal skills.
▪ Still others claim that they lack the rhetorical or interpersonal skills to communicate honestly and openly.
▪ Moss Kanter describes the personal and interpersonal skills she found in effective change makers.
▪ Still, they had been promoted primarily for their technical competence, not their management or interpersonal skill.
▪ Alongside the factual overview for managers, trainers are concerned to sharpen the managers' interpersonal skills.
▪ Have I had the kinds of experiences that give conceptual and interpersonal skills?
necessary
▪ If we do not provide sufficient places, the necessary skill will not be in the right place at the right time.
▪ There is a labor force with all the necessary skills, and there are materials.
▪ Strategically, a commitment to hiring minorities may require special efforts to train people who lack the necessary skills.
▪ So, as a practising ornithologist, I wished to obtain the necessary skills.
▪ Both should receive official sanction and both require in-service training opportunities to acquire the necessary skills.
▪ Extrinsic feedback from the teacher is necessary during skill learning and early practice, until intrinsic feedback takes over.
▪ What are the necessary skills for partnership?
new
▪ Their conclusions run counter to any simple proletarianisation thesis about the effects of new technology on skill.
▪ Initially, interviewers evaluate or test new employees' skills to determine their abilities and weaknesses.
▪ They even took pride in developing new skills which enabled them to use difficult machines which inexperienced people could not use.
▪ And these changes in context and assignment challenge us to develop new skills, new responses, and develop new views.
▪ Having the minimum capability required to learn new skills, behaviors, and relationships.
▪ Was it fear of not being able to perform as well at this new skill as they could with the composing-stick?
▪ No introduction, training, or assistance in practicing new skills and behaviors in the real-time pursuit of performance.
particular
▪ The Senator was a gifted demagogue, with particular skill in manipulating press and television.
▪ A warrant officer is appointed, not commissioned, and specializes in a particular skill.
▪ The use of particular skills in mining or property development may well yield good returns from abroad.
▪ And these particular skills, in and of themselves, may not be so important.
▪ Training in practical and particular ministerial skills is a secondary task.
▪ But, unless you have a particular skill, it is essential to be flexible on both location and salary.
▪ Each unit profile will need to describe grades with added information about particular skill needs.
▪ Hospitals are often composed of groupings based around particular medical skills such as physiotherapy or radiology.
personal
▪ Demands made on personal computing skills are minimal, and installation is simple.
▪ General managers and top executives must have highly developed personal skills.
▪ But its smooth running depended very much upon their personal skill and devotion.
▪ Instead they hone their personal fighting skills and come in times of need to fight in small warrior bands.
▪ Moss Kanter describes the personal and interpersonal skills she found in effective change makers.
▪ Not only may the manager have insufficient personal skills to do everything, but also far too little time.
▪ The next chapter on personal selling skills considers how to use this preparation in the actual selling situation.
▪ Others will prefer a curriculum with no evident pattern beyond personal inclination or skills.
political
▪ Mr Lott learned his political skills as a whip in both houses.
▪ In short, the conversion process must operate with political skill and political will.
▪ What happens if there is insufficient political skill or political will?
▪ It demands considerable political skill, however, to manipulate it.
▪ Like her husband, she has formidable political skills and impressive recuperative powers.
▪ Many such leaders were locally well-known, even notorious, but had little political experience or skill, or even interest.
▪ If Dole figures out how to take his vaunted inside political skills public, watch out.
practical
▪ Saturday I made a patchwork cot cover by hand, I have good practical skills.
▪ Both of them possessed the practical skills of ropework and carpentry to look after the raft properly and to teach the others.
▪ Rather they were with practical home skills and formal qualifications.
▪ State board licensing examinations vary, but they usually consist of written and oral parts and include a demonstration of practical skills.
▪ Our research was on teaching pupils practical skills in Biology and Physics.
▪ She taught People how to use public transportation, how to open a bank account and other practical skills.
professional
▪ Creativity, employee commitment, investor patience and professional and trade skills are the other essential parts of the brew.
▪ They lack the professional skills to do it themselves and can not afford to hire lawyers to do it for them.
▪ This approach can only be created on the basis of managerial trust in the professional skills and attitudes of teachers.
▪ It also provides professional skills in the use of radio, video and print media for religious, cultural and educational programming.
▪ Where there are ordinands or members of staff with professional musical skills, they are used for teaching.
▪ The books demystify language teaching theory, and provide invaluable background knowledge which will extend professional skills.
▪ And it is an improvement which only they have the requisite professional skills and training to undertake.
▪ In other words, management must continue to develop their own professional skills and sell them to the best bidder.
social
▪ All this is quite generally true, it applies equally to motor skills, perceptual skills and social skills.
▪ But the concern over work inhibition is not language; it is the development of social skills.
▪ But where could social workers obtain skills which would qualify them to teach social work?
▪ He went on to say that he believed women did have an advantage in deal making, because of our social skills.
▪ To develop imagination and learn social skills.
▪ Health and safety habits must be learned as well as recreational pastimes, social skills, and establishment of interpersonal relations.
▪ They see individual achievement as rewarding for men, social skills as rewarding for women.
▪ Her strengths are impressive: her competence in the world, her highly developed social skills, her humor, her warmth.
special
▪ Walking requires no special skills or equipment.
▪ FrontPage users can easily give their web sites special features that once required special programming skills.
▪ You have special skills and experience which will help us to achieve our objective.
▪ For this effect to occur, the care giver attending a laboring woman needs special skills and insights.
▪ To climb up to it takes time nine or ten hours to get there and back - but no special skill or nerve.
▪ After all, Gates has a special skill.
▪ The Equity rules demand the use of actors unless a special skill or talent is required.
▪ At its new restaurant, Darden executives vow, nothing in the menu will require special skills or complicated dishes.
specific
▪ There will be no need to teach specific computer skills.
▪ Be specific about your skills and experience.
▪ This may be because no formal teaching sessions took place, and no specific assessment of skills occurred.
▪ You must identify which jobs have to change and what specific new skills and behaviors the people in those jobs must learn.
▪ Expert instruction for children in specific skill areas such as cookery, craft, sport?
▪ This strategic transition required many people throughout the company to change specific skills, behaviors, and working relationships.
▪ We don't ask for specific skills or qualifications - just commitment and initiative.
▪ The focus on performance and work yielded additional insights about specific behavior and skill changes.
technical
▪ Worm-lions, however, also demonstrate another technical skill.
▪ Sometimes technical skills are more important than investigative ones.
▪ Gasifiers require considerable technical skills for operation and maintenance.
▪ They emphasized the technical knowledge and skills they had to impart to these people.
▪ Some of the finest examples of technical skill are to be found among birds.
▪ It would use new methods to teach traditional academic subjects and equip young people with technical skills.
▪ However, those with serious technical and programming skills are always in big demand.
▪ Recruiters also are targeting community college graduates with technical skills.
■ NOUN
communication
▪ Fortunately, in the eighties we have begun to recognise that modern communication skills go far beyond the concept of advertising.
▪ The city hired a consulting firm to rank the candidates on management and communication skills.
▪ Voice over A course in communication skills at the force's training college in Berkshire.
▪ Tact, diplomacy, flexibility, and communication skills are essential.
▪ Many doctors feel that medical students still do not receive enough training in communication skills.
▪ The Rams acted as facilitators, helping the Niners' offense work on its communication skills.
▪ The absence of media chauvinism is testimony, Morris Matthews believes, to the women's communication skills.
▪ Early on they amazed us with their valuable ideas and communication skills.
core
▪ In designing the programme, we have tried to emphasise the vocational aspects of the core skills modules wherever possible.
▪ They had a solid foundation in reading, writing, math, and other core skills.
▪ In the school system, aspects of core skills were present in the Munn curriculum, introduced in the late 1970s.
▪ This year, we've not had time to integrate teaching and assessment of core skills into vocational areas.
▪ Learning activities have been designed to develop core skills such as analysing sources, recording evidence, and understanding chronology.
▪ Next year, we will cover all of the core skills in two option columns, rather than three.
▪ The schools would deliver core skills modules in the morning, and the college would deliver the other modules.
▪ The core skill is the identifying and reducing these obstacles, freeing the group to reach its potential.
language
▪ Mathematical and language skills unite in the understanding of logic and reasoning, an essential component of mature intelligence.
▪ Children develop their language skills with reading and writing.
▪ It aims to improve teacher effectiveness and emphasises the development of language skills and awareness through the co-operative exploration of teaching/learning problems.
▪ Frustrated educators search for dramatic new ways to get at one root of the problem: language skills.
▪ Foreign language skills would also be an asset.
▪ Instead, he said, almost every child subjected to the computer animation and sound games rapidly learned normal language skills.
▪ A recent job advert for travel representatives abroad asked for language skills and included signing in the list of useful languages.
▪ They kept to themselves, however, and you could never be sure of either their language skills or their motives.
level
▪ Her whole body does have the capacity for arousal-but bringing it all to the boil relies on your skill level.
▪ Thus, Joe can increase his base pay by mastering more skill levels.
▪ You will learn about your own individual fitness and skill levels and how you can improve these.
▪ Cost of membership and instruction range from $ 100 to $ 250, depending on initial skill level.
▪ You play against the computer which operates at a chosen skill level so you could have a chance of winning.
▪ To change skill levels select the appropriate characteristic and press fire.
▪ As our skill level increased over the days, so did the challenges.
▪ Alongside a programme of raising skill levels is the need to dovetail an investment programme.
management
▪ These management skills had been learnt through observation of other sisters rather than from formal management courses.
▪ Changing consumer shopping patterns and lack of food management skills at the company subsequently led to below-expected results.
▪ If it comes with the appropriate management skills it's a lot easier to raise the capital.
▪ Manion had brought excellent project management skills to the organization along with his marketing expertise.
▪ However sources at Next claim Tribble lacked management skills and suffered a vote of no confidence prior to his departure.
▪ Career advancement and annual bonuses depended more on developing and deploying strategy skills than change management skills.
▪ You may also be responsible for the supervision of staff and develop management skills.
▪ And any opportunity to practice their people management skills was especially appreciated.
study
▪ Enhance study skills in preparation for tertiary education 3.
▪ In addition to counselling on particular personal problems, advice is available on aspects such as accommodation, study skills and careers.
▪ Tuition in study skills and information retrieval methods especially electronic.
▪ Much use will be made of the School Library where study skills will be learnt.
▪ Our Skills Centre can help you with any personal study skill from time-management to overcoming dyslexia.
▪ For some members of staff, study skills was what the ESSE/L Project was really all about.
▪ In contrast, 4 Colleges and 1 Polytechnic offered language improvement, and 9 Colleges and 6 Polytechnics study skills.
■ VERB
acquire
▪ You may be a newly appointed manager who needs to acquire management skills quickly.
▪ Then develop a plan to acquire those skills.
▪ The best method I have seen for acquiring this skill uses an impact pad.
▪ Several students who started in January acquired enough skills to land summer jobs, Frezzo said.
▪ Where training programmes are geared to the needs of older workers it has been demonstrated that they can successfully acquire new skills.
▪ Both should receive official sanction and both require in-service training opportunities to acquire the necessary skills.
▪ A general module which enables the student to acquire basic skills in group music making, using instruments and/or voices.
▪ One does not need to acquire hermeneutical skills to appreciate the significance and personal challenge presented by the great truths of salvation.
develop
▪ One of the ways in which the children at the school develop their computer skills is by keeping weather and farm records.
▪ It was during that time that she developed her photography skills, to document conditions in the shops.
▪ As we have said, you can only develop a skill by practising it.
▪ Certainly, all children must develop coping and survival skills.
▪ Many companies have developed technical skills in-house, and no longer rely on dealer backup.
▪ Gender-specific issues will also be addressed, along with workshops to develop problem-solving skills and to promote equality for women.
▪ It helped to develop skills of cooperation and communication.
▪ Now you just have to develop skills to master a 64-team tournament.
hone
▪ So Jorge Sampaio should have plenty of time to hone his speech-writing skills.
▪ Mark accepted this and used the waiting period to improve relationships and hone his skills.
▪ Instead they hone their personal fighting skills and come in times of need to fight in small warrior bands.
▪ The course is specifically designed to hone their skills to a professional level.
▪ This will improve your document while helping you hone your skills into professional quality.
▪ So, out of love For my straight sisters, I want to hone your skills until they're razor-sharp.
▪ Malkmus and Steve Kannberg, the principal songwriters of Pavement, have honed their skill to razor sharpness.
improve
▪ Keeping up to date, helping to improve skills for the off-farm job, and making contact with other farmers were other minor responses.
▪ I came here to improve on my soccer skills.
▪ Consider whether lawyers need to improve their typing skills.
▪ Player ratings and statistics change as the players learn and improve their skills with playing experience.
▪ The main conclusion to be drawn here is that the way to aid slow readers is to improve their word-recognition skills.
▪ After all, you can correct the problems and improve your skills with a little practice.
▪ As you complete more games and improve your skills the game gets more difficult, the Klingons get more intelligent.
▪ Dan was successful in completing his art projects and he consistently worked hard to improve his excellent soccer skills.
learn
▪ So too is disciplined listening, and those guiding others should learn some of the skills of pastoral counselling.
▪ To learn new skills, I worked my way from one lab to another over much of a decade.
▪ Mr Lott learned his political skills as a whip in both houses.
▪ In the best programs, 3-and 4-year-olds learn social skills, how to share and get along.
▪ The truth is that learning new skills does take time, and progress may appear to be very slow.
▪ Workers face a world in which they must continue to learn new skills across a lifetime.
▪ Yet on very busy days the students will be under stress and unable to concentrate on learning new skills.
▪ Boyhood pledges and rites of passage, boy pages learning skills of survival from men of iron.
need
▪ It is you they need, and your skills they must be prepared to help you to adapt and improve.
▪ You may be a newly appointed manager who needs to acquire management skills quickly.
▪ Teams do not need all the required skills up front.
▪ Dealing with people like the dismissed Alexander Korzhakov may, in any case, need skills of a different kind.
▪ Maybe you need actual job skills, such as better computer training or a course in direct mail marketing.
▪ Neither the authority nor general practitioners can be efficient purchasers in isolation - they need each other's skills and experience.
▪ What I need are skills to abate my reactions to her anger.
possess
▪ She'd never have suspected the Viking of possessing culinary skills.
▪ Similarly, it is possible for individuals to possess weak skills in reading or math while also being work-inhibited.
▪ It is important to remember that labour is heterogeneous in the sense that different workers possess different skills and abilities.
▪ Counselors within school systems and psychotherapist5 in the community possess the knowledge and skills to assist students, parents, and teachers.
▪ Individuals who possess certain skills may also find their power diminished if those skills are made redundant by developments in new technology.
▪ The good news is that anyone who possesses information and learning skills is likely to find a job, old-boy networks not withstanding.
▪ Similarly, professional groups possessing key skills can often rely on employers' dependence upon them.
▪ Both of them possessed the practical skills of ropework and carpentry to look after the raft properly and to teach the others.
require
▪ Walking requires no special skills or equipment.
▪ Teams do not need all the required skills up front.
▪ It is backbreaking, monotonous and requires skill.
▪ FrontPage users can easily give their web sites special features that once required special programming skills.
▪ This requires new skills and ideas.
▪ Dad was to bring Mama her breakfast, since that required a minimum of skill to prepare.
▪ Using Pharos does not require computing skills.
▪ Having the minimum capability required to learn new skills, behaviors, and relationships.
show
▪ The articles show the bravery, skill and commitment that is needed by each of the lifeboat crews.
▪ He showed the skill during the mayoral campaign.
▪ Often these activities have given you experience or show you have proven skills in areas other than your paid work.
▪ He has shown some athletic skills but needs consistency.
▪ General Leclerc's troops had shown great skill and speed, Gracey said, but much unnecessary brutality.
▪ Such a very fine performance goes to show that some skills are not redundant.
▪ He has taken longer than expected to show some of the skills and pace expected.
teach
▪ We can no longer assume that because some one can do the job they can teach the skill.
▪ It has added courses in its industrial engineering and automotive divisions that teach more advanced skills.
▪ He was very keen on travel, and he'd taught himself circus skills.
▪ Successful programs teach students basic skills to help them say no to drugs.
▪ One way of doing this is to accuse teachers of failing to teach relevant skills and attitudes.
▪ Like Sinclair, Tri-County is teaching more advanced skills to students who do arrive on campus better prepared.
▪ Our research was on teaching pupils practical skills in Biology and Physics.
▪ Youths are taught nutrition-related skills, enabling them to improve the adequacy of their diets.
use
▪ He rejected a career in Munich, preferring to use his skill, he hoped, to impress oriental rulers.
▪ It is of course possible to be an effective manager without coaching but by using this skill you can achieve even better results.
▪ It would also be helpful to write in the left-hand margin where you used the skills.
▪ He wanted a quick change into something where he could use his personality and skills.
▪ This is the power; to use it is the skill.
▪ Could we redesign companies in a completely new light using the negotiation skills and information-filtering of intelligent agents?
▪ Because you use these skills automatically you probably will not be aware of the large number of transferable skills you possess.
write
▪ Because of educational difficulties, many deaf people, though intelligent, have poor reading and writing skills.
▪ They even helped some of their guards improve their reading and writing skills.
▪ The Resource Book concentrates on grammar and writing skills.
▪ Write a paragraph about a teacher who inhibited your writing skill.
▪ On the other days there is a writing skills class to attend.
▪ Perhaps he or she was a junior high school teacher who once commented that your writing skills were far below average.
▪ Why are letters so important and what makes letter writing such a key skill?
▪ Workers will need a level of writing skill that will enable them to communicate quickly and effectively.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
core curriculum/subjects/skills etc
▪ And it was certainly an improvement on my thoughts about the core curriculum.
▪ Every student must pass through an extensive core curriculum, including courses such as World Humanities 101.
▪ In designing the programme, we have tried to emphasise the vocational aspects of the core skills modules wherever possible.
▪ In schools that expect all students to take a core curriculum, students achieve more.
▪ In the school system, aspects of core skills were present in the Munn curriculum, introduced in the late 1970s.
▪ Once in the classroom the teacher is restricted by the core curriculum and general workload and lack of equipment.
▪ This could be construed as a tailor-made curriculum, which can not be developed into a generic or core curriculum.
upgrade your skills
▪ Admittedly, these subordinates had to show some personal initiative to upgrade their skills.
▪ They were offered Saturday courses, combined with distance learning materials, to upgrade their skills.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Being a good manager requires a number of highly specialized skills.
▪ Marcia's computer skills were not good enough for the job.
▪ Most of us learn the knowledge and skills needed to drive a car fairly easily.
▪ On the course you will develop skills in business management.
▪ Price handles the role of the angry wife with great skill.
▪ The Australians played with great skill and determination.
▪ These exercises develop the student's reading and writing skills.
▪ You have to be able to learn new skills quickly.
▪ You need computer skills for most office jobs.
▪ You need good communication skills for this job.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At a later stage the study will be extended to differences in office skills.
▪ He had hoped to repeat his successes of 1985 and 1987, but could not contain the accurate drawing skills of King.
▪ He honed his pilots' aerial skills to so fine a point that their kill ratio reached ten to one.
▪ In addition, managers often can build organizational skills by hiring new people instead of getting existing people to learn and change.
▪ In the primary grades, teachers put emphasis on language and reading skills.
▪ The bird in this treatment would have the opportunity to learn the skill by imitation.