Across higher education and pre-18 education, leadership, educators and careers professionals are increasingly interested in where the language of tranferable skills comes from. Many universities already have short graduate attributes frameworks of perhaps 8-10 elements, but educators are often keen to use a more nuanced and extended language of transferable skills.

Alongside that, colleagues who use my SkillsMap®platform or who read Careers Education to Demystify Employability often ask about how they can either use the SkillsMap®language in their organisation. SkillsMap® is a learning tool for students and learners, as well as being a unique piece of intellectual property, and it is important that if schools, college and universities are serious about transferable skills strategy, they consider developing their own shared language or taxonomy of transferable skills.

So as part of my training and professional development offer, I work with schools, colleges and universities to create their own shared langauge or taxonomy of transferable skills. I do that through workshops and collaborative consultancy, using a bespoke 4Cs tool I have created for this purpose.

The 4Cs tool is based on the same research behind SkillsMap®so that education organisations can create something bespoke to their needs, without the lengthy time and investment in researching curriculum documentation. It also draws on the work I have done with schools and universities on creating skills langauge to optimise engagement and maximise the nuance needed for different subject context.

If you would like to explore how to use the 4Cs tool, please get in touch with me via the Contact page.