Foundational skills are skills that enable you to do your job well, whatever that job may be. They include things like collaboration, time, management, adaptability, active listening, assertiveness, self-control, growth, mindset, intrinsic motivation, critical thinking, leadership, creativity, organization and planning, productivity, and more. At weThink, we use our proprietary map of skills to create skill translations that include hard skills and past experience. We help users understand where they can go next and grow next — like a GPS. No matter what the job or profession is, these skills make the difference between success and failure

Yes. Thinking in terms of foundational skills for skills translations enables the E in DEI. Equity is hard to embed, but with weThink’s team intelligence platform, you can view current and new talent through a formative lens. That means you can see where the opportunities are for talent based on objective skills and potential for growth in a formative way as opposed to limiting them to their past experience, enabling a two-way dialogue and creating career pathing options based on their interests and skills. You can get real value out of your DEI initiative by assessing the skills that are attributes of inclusivity and provide true equity and opportunities for the diverse talent you hire. weThink’s team evaluations allow you to assess how well-embedded team cohesion is, and get a sense of your team’s perspective

It helps in several ways: It helps cultivate an organizational culture centered around a forward looking data driven understanding of the skills and potential of talent.Teams that are aware of these skills perform at least 30% higher — these are the attributes of winning teams

These skills have an impact on both performance and culture. Studies have shown that improving these skills can enhance team performance by up to 30%. As Patrick Lencioni famously stated, ‘If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.’ Hendricks conducted an interesting study that provides a great example of this. They found that CEOs who intentionally focused on culture initiatives as drivers of financial performance had double the financial performance of other companies – 9.1% for this group compared to 4.4% for the others. Thus, improving transferable skills can bolster both culture and financial performance because these skills make people better performers. Collaboration is as important as cash flow

Yes! Not only can weThink help you gain insight into the foundational and transferable skills of existing or potential talent, weThink is crosswalked to occupations and abilities and can interpret talent history for career/occupation fit