In this lesson you are participating in sorting skills into three types: technical, interpersonal and intrapersonal. These are the labels LCW uses so you can evidence skills clearly on applications and in your Digital Portfolio. Job adverts often say hard skills, soft skills or competencies instead. You still map them with the same test: who is the skill mainly acting on?

Most people can name what they can do with their hands or on a screen. Fewer can name what they do with other people, and fewer still what they do with themselves. By the end you will hold a Skills Audit with up to four skills in each column, written at whatever level you currently have them. That audit feeds every later skills lesson and the personal statement for Portfolio in Action.

Three categories. Learn the labels before you sort, or every card will feel like a debate.

A quick test if a skill sits on a line: who is the skill mainly acting on? A task or tool → technical. Another person → interpersonal. Yourself → intrapersonal.

Adverts may bundle these as hard skills, soft skills or competencies. The three LCW labels keep the sort honest when you evidence them later.

First move this period: sort nine skills into the three types so the categories stop being abstract.

Drag each skill card into Technical, Interpersonal or Intrapersonal. Some sit on a line. Put each where you would defend it and be ready to argue the case when your teacher pauses the room.

When the sort and class argument are done, move on to the sample role and your Skills Audit.

Two moves left: classify phrases from a sample ward clerk role, then write your own Skills Audit into your Digital Portfolio.

Part 1: sample ward clerk role (about 8 minutes)

Read this short class role description, styled on typical Irish hospital ward administration duties (for example patient records, desk contact and own task load). Drag each bold duty into Technical, Interpersonal or Intrapersonal. Some may sit on a line. Put each where you would defend it.

Sample ward clerk role (Irish hospital setting, for class use)

You will update patient records on the ward system, book follow-up appointments, and prepare admission packs. You will greet families at the desk, pass clear messages between nurses and consultants, and calm people who are waiting under stress. You will manage your own queue of tasks when the desk is quiet and the phone is not, stay accurate when the ward is busy, and flag a mistake the moment you spot one rather than hoping nobody notices.

When your teacher shows the key on the board, compare your placements and note any you would still defend differently.

Part 2: your Skills Audit (about 15 quiet minutes)

Open a new document in your Digital Portfolio under Strand 1.1 called Skills Audit (for example S1.1/Skills Audit). Make three headings: Technical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal. Under each, list up to four skills you currently have, at any level.

Rules that keep the audit honest:

• Name the skill in plain words, not a slogan ("I fix bike brakes", not "mechanical excellence").
• Any level counts: beginner is still a skill you have.
• If you cannot name four in a column, leave a blank and write one line on why that column is thin. The blank is useful information.
• School, sport, part-time work, home, volunteering and hobbies all count as sources.

Save the document to your Digital Portfolio. You will reuse it in later skills lessons, when you build transferable-skill evidence, and when you draft your personal statement for Portfolio in Action and related AAC work. This lesson does not land an Applied Learning Task on its own; it builds the record those later pieces draw on.

Talk these through with the person beside you, or sit with them quietly if you work better alone.

1. Which of your three Skills Audit columns was hardest to fill, and what does that tell you about the kind of evidence you currently have?
2. On a job application, which column is hardest to prove to a stranger, and what kind of story would make one intrapersonal skill believable?

If you want a short portfolio note later, add two lines under your Skills Audit naming the hardest column and one story you could use as evidence. Keep that note in the Digital Portfolio document, not on this page.