| Basic skills | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Skill domain | Trained by | Self assessment | Improvement ideas |
| Dutch language |
Life in my mother country. I care for spelling without mistakes and it's hard to notice that mistakes are accepted more and more easily. At the same time I understand that language is a living thing, that cannot be regulated from behind a desk. See my weblog weblog. |
My reading, writing and speaking ability in Dutch is sufficient. During intense vocal exchanges it occurs that my thoughts run away from my speech. | Read more Dutch literature. It's been too long. |
| English, French, German, Spanish, Kikaonde, Mandarin, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai. | Beside education at school I worked and lived in Zambia which improved my English. I read mostly English books, fiction and non-fiction. I didn't have the "television training" that most young people have, watching American soaps. School and travelling taught me the other languages, which I speak only limited. |
Engels: OK, exept for the accent.
Frans: read, speak, write. Duits: read, speak, write with a lot of grammatical mistakes. Spaans: Read and speak a little. Other: "Good morning", "How is your family", "The food was nice", "Thanks" and "Bye". |
Italian! Primarily by moving there! |
| Planning |
Managing a team of 25 people. As a single dad with two small kids and a job. |
Setting priorities is no problem, keeping them is a little more difficult. | Planning is management of expectations. |
| Use of scientific sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Skill domain | Trained by | Self assessment | Improvement ideas |
| Inventarisation of information and literature |
Getting my bachelor degree Work as consultant and projectmanager in ICT projects. |
Documenting skills could improve. | Learn to work more systematically. |
| Consult experts |
Getting my bachelor degree Work as consultant and projectmanager in ICT projects. |
This is getting better. I have the tendecny to think that I have to know and do all by myself. | Keep doing it. Cooperation is so much more valuable. |
| Make scientific references | Not too much experience with this. It's a must and not complicated. | No problem. Boring, though. | I'll do it when necessary. |
| Think and communicate on an academic level | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Skill domain | Trained by | Self assessment | Improvement ideas |
| Read and analyse an article | Innumerable times | I can do this. | No improvement necessary. |
| Make abstracts | Often, in many situations. | No problem. | No improvement necessary. |
| Write an article | I did write a lot of policy documents as a manager, but not so many scientific papers. | I can do this, but I don't like it too much. To get everything on paper that is already in my head seems an agonizingly slow process. |
This is the way to go in science world.
Train! |
| Give a presentation | In my job, countless times. For collegues, customers, bosses, strangers, project teammembers. | It's sufficient, but could be more 'swinging'. I have come a long way from the stammering boy with the tomato head. | More relaxed. more entertaining. |
| Critical listening during seminars | Attended quite a few. | I can get the gist of most of them. | No problems here. |
| Logical reasoning, discussion | I wouldn't have survived as an IT-manager if I couldn't. |
I'm analytical and judicial. I don't like it when people use emotional arguments in a logical debate. I think emotional arguments are very valuable, but they should be recognized as being emotional. I find it even more difficult that charismatic people get more attention, although their arguments might not be very good. |
Present my arguments in a pleasant way, without being condescending. |
| Social-organising skills | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Skill domain | Trained by | Self assessment | Improvement ideas |
| Cooperate | Work in project teams, management boards, commissions and volunteer organisations | Cooperating is no problem. I don't like formality and meetings can be a very inefficient way of communication, so I try to avoid them. I'm not in the best spot under a dominant leader. | Listen more carefully to views opposing mine. |
| Keep deadlines | Deadlines hinder me in reaching the quality I would like to deliver, but they do make you focus and stimulate creativity and flexibility. | I can handle them, although I don't like the stress involved. The focus and flexibility it generates can be a good experience. | Try to avoid deadlines by finishing early. |
| Project organization | I worked in a lot of (IT) projects, both as participant and manager. | I know how to handle methods, techniques and skills for managing projects and my projects deliver on time with sufficient quality. | More attention to adminsitration and communication. |
| Specific skills | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Skill domain | Trained by | Self assessment | Improvement ideas |
| Write an essay | Philosophy of science: on reality and interfaces (pdf in Dutch); Philosophy of language: on intersubjectivity (pdf in Dutch); | I like to do it and the results are sufficient. | More pratice, to make it more natural and easy to do. |
| Computer programming |
I programmed from 1987 until now in Algol (What?), PL1 (Euhh..), Cobol (right), RPGII (Huh?),
dBase (Wait a minute...), Clipper (?), Paradox (?!), Pascal, Cold Fusion, Delphi, Perl, Php, Oracle, JBuilder, Javascript, Java, Haskell, Ruby en Prolog. Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, CakePhp CMS: Joomla, Textpattern, Wordpress, Drupal I used the databases from dBase, Oracle, Interbase, Paradox, SQLserver, Mysql en Postgresql. Other computerskills: see CV. |
Not fluent in everything anymore, but a refresher course is all it takes. | Learn to program really well :) |
| Mathematical reasoning / formal logic | In al my studies | I get by, but I'm not a natural at this. | "Get" formal logic, instead of knowing how to do it. If you know what I mean. |
| Statistics | In all my studies. | Sufficient. | Bit rusty, needs some refreshing. |
| Analysis and interpretatione of a philosophical text | The philosophy classes I took. | Good, no problems. | Learn to live with questions instead of answers. |