The Skills and Mindsets Garden

You ask questions, make assumptions, create, gather, and synthesize data. You use a critical approach to understand a problem. You interpret and visualize qualitative and quantitative data etc by using relevant, appropriate and reliable sources.

You bring information to life in a way appropriate to the audience to inform, engage or support decision-making.

You are culturally aware and engage your diverse users throughout the policy cycle to address their needs.

You establish relationships with internal and external partners, seeking consensus and co-creation of solutions.

You are curious, adopt new ways of thinking and doing and use creative processes in collaboration with others. 

You are motivated by achieving meaningful impact today while envisioning the future. 

You enhance the understanding of policy and human contexts, and those of the system in general, by taking actions based on this understanding and based on your role and sphere of influence.

You change in a constructive manner, experiment and apply the lessons learned. You adapt and persevere through uncertainty, dealing with setbacks head-on.