organizational skills
Systematic planning abilities
Organizational skills are the abilities that help someone manage time, tasks, and resources efficiently.
These include planning, prioritizing, scheduling, and keeping track of information or materials.
The term appears frequently in job listings and résumés: Strong organizational skills required.
Someone with good organizational skills meets deadlines, maintains order, and juggles multiple responsibilities without losing track.
- schedulingAssigning times to events
- daily plannerBook for scheduling days
- adaptabilityAbility to adjust readily
- prioritizationRanking by importance
- meeting deadlinesFulfilling obligations when expected
systematization · inventory control · goal-setting · action items · contingency planning · teamwork · delegation · deadlines · time management · keeping track · big picture · moving parts · productivity tools · filing systems · resource allocation · budgeting · multitasking · plate spinning
- work skillsadaptability, communication, creativity, dependability, initiative
- developmentgrowth, progress, advancement, expansion, improvement
- special educationspecial education, special ed, special needs, IEP, IEPs
organizational skillsdisorganization
Absence of systematic arrangement
chaos · disorder · messiness · disarray · winging it
organizational skillsincompetence
Lack of required skill
ineptitude · poor time management · carelessness · negligence · sloppiness