diff --git a/Grade 9/Careers/GLC2O6/Transferable_Skills_Study_Sheet.md b/Grade 9/Careers/GLC2O6/Transferable_Skills_Study_Sheet.md index 76343c4..f892626 100644 --- a/Grade 9/Careers/GLC2O6/Transferable_Skills_Study_Sheet.md +++ b/Grade 9/Careers/GLC2O6/Transferable_Skills_Study_Sheet.md @@ -1,10 +1,132 @@ -# Transferable Skills +# Study Sheet + +# Transferable Skills +- A skill that can be used in `multiple` different occupations +- A transferable skill is one that you can take with you - `portable skill` +- You learn transferable skill through your `interactions & expereices` with others, school voluteering, home, jobs +- Transferable skills are organized into `3` sub-sets + - Working with `people` + - Working with `things` + - `information & data` +- A gransferable skill can give you an edge above others because employers will consider you a better candidate +- Makes you a more `efficient` worker + +## Leadership +- A good leader: +- `listens` to ideas of others +- `encourages` others to participate +- take `charge`, not take `control` +- Life people up they don't let them down +- Take responsibilities for mistakes and not blame others +- Lead through `respect` not through `fear` +- Solve conflicts and direct their group +- Give `feedback` that is clear and `specific` + +## Communication Skills +- Skills that are needed for `writing`, `speaking` to and `interaction` with others effectively +- Communication can be `verbal` (ex. speaking singing) and `non-verbal` (ex. written, body language, facial expression) +- One way communication is `one main speaker, people listen` +- Two way communication is `back and forth interaction, building on to the points, sustsaining the conversation` + +### Communication Process +|Process|Description| +|:------|:----------| +|Sender|Person delivering informationto the reciever or receivers| +|Receiver|The receiver is the person that decodes and interprets the message| +|Feedback|Response given to reciever| +|Interference|Anything that impedes the communication| + +### How To Receive A Message +- Listen $`\rightarrow`$ Analyze $`\rightarrow`$ Check +- Barrier to communication: `something that prevents the receiver to understand the message` +- Possible Barriers + - Physical, hearing impaired + - Language + - Noise + - Distance, proximity + - Medium + - Intereptions + +- Active Listening Active engagement, shows that you are listening, gives alot of feedback + +## Stress Management +- **Stress**: The `imbalance` between demands and `resources`. When `pressure` exceeds one's perceived ability to `cope`. +- Stress Management Skills: help to balance yourself so that the level of stress is at a manageable level +- Possible Stressors + - School + - Relationships + - Job/responsibilities + - Everything, enviornment + +- **Peer pressure:** `expectations` of yourself and others that you don't feel that you can keep up with them + - Do well in school, drugs etc +- **Eustress**: `positive, productive` stresss to help you get things done. `Motivates` you to do better + - Wedding day, excitied, ready to go to colleges, anxiety, scary book/movie +- Indentify your stressors! + - Avoid the stressors + - Alter the stressors + - Accept the stressors + - Adapt the stressors + +## Organization +- State of being `structured` and `arranged` in an orderly way +- Advantages of Organization + - reduces stress/workload + - increases efficiency + - maintains order and convenience +- Effective organizational skills are + - learned, practiced, and updated constantly (ex: learning to prioritize urgency vs importance in order to better manage time) + +## Negotiation +- Negotiation is a `discussion` that is aimed at reaching a `argreement` +- Sometimes negotiation requires a third party called a `mediator` +- **Mediator**: a `neutral` third party +- The mediator will try to help the two parties settle an agreement. The mediataor must `educate` themselves about both parties and what they are trying to achieve and what they will settle for in order to help them come to a `resolution` +- Possible outcomes + - One team wins, both team wins, one team loses + +## Teamwork +- Ability to work, `cooperate`, and get `along` with other people in order to attain a common `goal` + +# Workplace Hazards +- **Hazard**: Something that does harm to you or makes you ill +|Type of Hazard|Examples| +|:-------------|:-------| +|Physical|- electricity
- constant loud noise
- liquid/spills
-unguarded moving machinary| +|Biological|- blood or bodily fluids
- fungi
- bacteria & virius
- plants| +|Chemical|- Liquids eg. paints, acids
- Vapours + fumes eg. welding fumes
- gases eg. acetlyene, propane, carbon monoxide
- flammable materials eg. gasoline| +|Ergonomic|- poor lighting
- poor workstation or chairs
- poor posture
- constant lifting| + +## Occupational Health and Safety Act Rights +- Right To Know + - employer must tell you about all hazards at your job +- Right To Participate + - take part in keeping the workplace safe +- Right To Refuse + - you may refuse work that is unsafe/endangering + +## Responsiblities For A Safe Enviornment +- Ensure that required training is given to you +- you are provided with equipment & training on how to use it properly +- make you & supervisors aware of all possible hazards + +## 3 Types Of General Safety Traing +- General workplace safety training/information +- specific safety training +- WHMIS + +## Reasons To Report Injury Right Away +- correct medical treatment can be received immediately +- correct amount of compensation recieved +- cause of the injury can be investigated & prevented from happening again +- **PPE**: - personal protection equipment + +# ESA - Purpose of The Employment Standarads Act 2000 (ESA) - Sets out the **rights & responsiblities** of both employers & employers in ontario workplaces - Employment Standards Act 2000 - An act that provides the minimum standards for most employers working in ontario - - A 30 min break must be offered per 5 hours of work - When young workers are called in to work, and they work more than 3hrs/day normally, they will get paid the 3hrs, even if they didn't do the work for 3hrs because they are called in - Young workers are eligible for overtime if they work over 44hrs a week, which they get 1.5 their normal pay @@ -27,7 +149,6 @@ 1. Firefighters 2. Actors 3. Student ($13.5) - - 3 Basic Rights 1. Right to refuse unsafe work. 2. Right to participate in the workplace health and safety activities through the Health and Safety Committee (HSC) or as a worker health and safety representative.