Here are a few tips from Nick on how "The Important Twelve" core skills can be integrated in the traineeship:

• tasks should be formulated in such a way that information to solve them have been collected independently from other trainees or from relevant departments (communication, independence);

• encourage trainees to work in changing work groups (ability to work in teams, flexibility)

• talk about conflicts openly and encourage the trainees to do so as well

• let the trainee work out unexpected problems as well as problems which go beyond company affairs (creativity, process-oriented thinking)

• just describe a problem from time to time without formulating tasks (initiative, independence)

• don’t forget to ask for background knowledge and correlations

• always ask the trainee to find the relationship between theory and practice

• exclude obvious solutions (creativity)

• integrate the trainees into work groups (if they exist in your company)

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