Distinguish between human skills and conceptual skills
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Conceptual skills are "thinking" kinds of skills. Our ability to look at the big picture is a conceptual skill. Our ability to see how all the parts make the whole is a conceptual skill, an understanding of relationships. Our ability to generate and assess solutions to problems is sometimes a kind of conceptual skill. Logic is a conceptual skill. We need to understand cause and effect and analogy, which are two forms of logical analysis. Critical thinking is a kind of conceptual skill in which one questions and assesses what one is presented with, rather than taking it as given. Planning is a conceptual skill.
Human skills are interpersonal and intrapersonal skills. That is, they are the skills we use to get along with other people and to understand ourselves, too. Everyone needs needs both to get along in any social setting, but managers...