Required skill:

Ability to recognise methodological errors, rhetorical devices, unexamined conventional wisdom, unnoticed assumptions, vagueness and superficiality.

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Attention to detail, analysis, judgement		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities
Tolerance for stress, decisiveness		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Ability to move between generalisation and appropriately detailed discussion, inventing or discovering examples to support or challenge a position, and distinguishing relevant and irrelevant considerations.

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Attention to detail, analysis, judgement		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities
Tolerance for stress, decisiveness, achievement orientation		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Ability to consider unfamiliar ideas and ways of thinking, and to examine critically pre-suppositions and methods within the discipline itself.

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Attention to detail, analysis, judgement		 Generic competencies
Listening, questioning, interpersonal sensitivity
Personal capabilities
Influencing		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Ability to conduct arguments about matters of the highest moment without recourse to insult or susceptibility to take offence.

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Attention to detail, analysis, judgement		 Generic competencies
Listening, questioning, interpersonal sensitivity
Personal capabilities
Tolerance for stress, decisiveness, achievement orientation, influencing		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements

Required skill:

Willingness to evaluate opposing arguments, to formulate and consider the best arguments for different views and to identify the weakest elements of the most persuasive view.

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Attention to detail, analysis, judgement		 Generic competencies
Listening, questioning, interpersonal sensitivity
Personal capabilities
Tolerance for stress, decisiveness, achievement orientation, influencing		 Technical ability
Business awareness
Organisational sensitivity		 Practical elements

Required skill:

Honesty in recognising the force of the conclusions warranted by a careful assessment of pertinent arguments.

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Attention to detail, analysis, judgement		 Generic competencies
Listening, questioning, interpersonal sensitivity
Personal capabilities
Tolerance for stress, decisiveness, achievement orientation, influencing		 Technical ability
Business awareness
Organisational sensitivity		 Practical elements

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