Action Words

You may find it useful to use a separate sheet to identify your own personal skills. Refer to this list of skills as verbs for inspiration!

achieving	digging	informing	planning	selling
acting	directing	initiating	playing	separating
adapting	discovering	innovating	predicting	serving
addressing	dispensing	inspecting	preparing	setting
administering	displaying	inspiring	prescribing	shaping
advising	disproving	installing	presenting	sharing
analysing	dissecting	instructing	printing	showing
anticipating	distributing	integrating	problem-solving	singing
arbitrating	diverting	interpreting	processing	sketching
arranging	dramatising	interviewing	producing	solving
ascertaining	drawing	inventing	programming	sorting
assembling	diving	investigating	projecting	speaking
assessing	editing	judging	promoting	studying
attaining	eliminating	keeping	proof-reading	summarising
auditing	empathising	leading	protecting	supervising
budgeting	enforcing	learning	providing	supplying
building	establishing	lecturing	publicising	symbolising
calculating	estimating	lifting	purchasing	taking
charting	evaluating	listening	questioning	talking
checking	examining	logging	raising	teaching
classifying	expanding	maintaining	reading	team-building
co-ordinating	experimenting	making	realising	telling
coaching	explaining	managing	reasoning	tending
collecting	expressing	manipulating	receiving	testing and proving
communicating	extracting	mediating	recommending	training
compiling	filing	meeting	reconciling	transcribing
completing	financing	memorising	recording	translating
composing	fixing	mentoring	recruiting	travelling
computing	following	modelling	reducing	treating
conducting	formulating	monitoring	referring	troubleshooting
conserving	gathering	motivating	rehabilitating	tutoring
consolidating	generating	navigating	relating	typing
constructing	getting	negotiating	remembering	understanding
controlling	giving	observing	rendering	understudying
coping	guiding	obtaining	repairing	undertaking
counselling	handling	offering	reporting	unifying
creating	having	operating	representing	upgrading
deciding	heading	ordering	researching	using
defining	helping	organising	resolving	utilising
delivering	identifying	originating	responding	verbalising
designing	illustrating	overseeing	responsibility	weighing
detailing	imagining	painting	restoring	winning
detecting	implementing	perceiving	retrieving	working
determining	improving	performing	reviewing	writing
developing	improvising	persuading	risking
devising	increasing	photographing	scheduling
diagnosing	influencing	piloting	selecting