Eagle Advantage

Adaptability 

• Recognize challenges as opportunities to improve. 
• Take risks and understand that mistakes contribute to growth. 
• Welcome constructive feedback and use it to strengthen your performance.  
• Embrace a growth mindset approach that allows for action, reflection, failure, and resilience for lifelong learning and development. 

Collaboration & Leadership 

• Build mutually beneficial relationships and achieve common goals by understanding, valuing, and leveraging the strengths of others.  
• Take responsibility for your own role and contributions within a team.  
• Organize, prioritize, and delegate work.
• Negotiate and manage conflict without compromising group objectives.    

Communication 

• Effectively articulate thoughts and ideas to others in written and oral forms.  
• Engage in dialogue that leads to productive outcomes. 
• Understand the impact of nonverbal communication on professional work image.
• Use interpersonal skills to motivate and develop others. 

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving 

• Exercise sound reasoning to independently analyze issues, identify options, formulate opinions, make decisions, and overcome problems.  
• Demonstrate originality and inventiveness when identifying possible courses of action. 
• Account for personal biases and recognize that there may be more than one valid point of view. 

Digital Literacy & Technology 

• Leverage knowledge of information and communications technology to ethically and efficiently solve problems, complete tasks, and accomplish goals.  
• Assess sources of information to determine legitimacy and suitability.  
• Keep up with emerging technologies and adapt tools to new purposes.   

Engaging Diversity 

• Cultivate awareness of your own identity and that of others through exploration of diversity, including race, ethnicity, country of origin, ability, class, gender, age, spirituality, etc.  
• Understand how culture and identity affects perceptions, attitudes, values, and behaviors. 
• Appreciate multiple perspectives and participate in society as a conscious global citizen. 

 Integrity & Accountability 

• Take ownership of your actions and learn from your mistakes. 
• Act with the interests of the larger community in mind.  
• Establish personal responsibility and effective work habits (e.g., punctuality, working productively with others, time/workload management). 

Self-Management 

• Identify and articulate your interests, skills, values, and experiences. 
• Explore and make decisions about academic and career options. 
• Establish and take steps to execute a personal academic and career plan.  
• Manage your strengths, limitations, emotions, and biases in a variety of situations.  
• Demonstrate the continual development of a positive personal brand.