Week 5: Skills and Abilities
The work of a human services practitioner comes with many personal and professional benefits. It also comes with challenges that can push a human services professional practitioner to their personal limits. Human services work is not easy, but the end results of affecting change can be rewarding. What skills will you need to work collaboratively with others and to manage challenging times?
To Prepare
- Review your course announcements for possible information related to this week’s Discussion.
- Think about the skills of humanitarian leaders.
- Consider the skills you need to develop and how you will develop them to be effective in your future role.
Post your perspective on whether you think there are problems in this world that cannot be solved despite the best efforts of human services practitioners. Provide an example. Explain whether it would keep you from trying to address the issue and why. Finally, explain the skills you would use as a human services practitioner to address or cope in this situation.
Tutorial for Skills and Abilities
