Capability Framework [V1]: Mindset

Life long learner

Seeks continuous improvement through formal and informal learning opportunities. Self-motivated to pursue ongoing learning in both professional and personal activities.

Information technology appreciator

Maintains a level of currency regarding emerging technologies and how they might be applied to support organisational outcomes.

Culturally aware

Respects and engages with the perspectives of people of different ethnic, religious, professional or social identifications.  A self-awareness of own cultural understandings and biases.  

Critically reflexive

Questions own assumptions and preconceptions.   

Self-efficacy

Has belief and confidence in capacity to succeed.

Open-minded

Open to new ideas and ways of knowing. Examines own beliefs when presented with new evidence. 

Collaborative 

A focus on "we".  Positively interacts with others, acknowledging and engaging with different perspectives, strategies, and experiences.

Detailed focus

Strives for thoroughness and accuracy in activities and products.

Strategic thinking

Uses knowledge to put ideas into action in order to achieve set goals.

Computational thinking

Conceptualising problems and their solutions in a way that can be executed by a machine (computer) including pattern recognition and use of algorithms. 

Design thinking

Is empathic to people experiencing a problem, looks for creative solutions, experiments, learns from failure, collaborates and reflects.

Flexible thinking

Able to change thinking to overcome challenges, exploring new ideas and ways of doing things.

Big picture focused

Looks at situations, challenges, or ideas with the widest possible context including people, cultures, organizational structures, and systems.

Sustainability aware

Supports using resources (ecological, social, economic) sustainably. 

Equality Seeking

Seeks to behaves in a way that supports equality, diversity, and inclusion.