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Action Verbs
Action verbs make your policy more precise. Here are some examples shared by Wake Forest University1).
Management/Leadership Skills
- Administer
- Analyze
- Appoint
- Approve
- Assign
- Attain
- Authorize
- Chair
- Consider
- Consolidate
- Contract
- Control
- Convert
- Coordinate
- Decide
- Delegate
- Develop
- Direct
- Eliminate
- Emphasize
- Enforce
- Enhance
- Establish
- Execute
- Generate
- Handle
- Head
- Hire
- Host
- Improve
- Incorporate
- Increase
- Initiate
- Inspect
- Institute
- Lead
- Manage
- Merge
- Motivate
- Organize
- Originate
- Overhaul
- Oversee
- Plan
- Preside
- Prioritize
- Produce
- Recommend
- Reorganize
- Replace
- Restore
- Review
- Schedule
- Streamline
- Strengthen
- Supervise
- Terminate
Communication/People Skills
- Address
- Advertise
- Arbitrate
- Arrange
- Articulate
- Author
- Clarify
- Collaborate
- Communicate
- Compose
- Condense
- Confer
- Consult
- Contact
- Convey
- Convince
- Correspond
- Debate
- Define
- Describe
- Develop
- Direct
- Discus
- Draft
- Edit
- Elicit
- Enlist
- Explain
- Express
- Formulate
- Furnish
- Incorporate
- Influence
- Interact
- Interpret
- Interview
- Involve
- Join
- Judge
- Lecture
- Listen
- Market
- Mediate
- Moderate
- Negotiate
- Observe
- Outline
- Participate
- Persuade
- Present
- Promote
- Propose
- Publicize
- Reconcile
- Recruit
- Refer
- Reinforce
- Report
- Resolve
- Respond
- Solicit
- Specify
- Speak
- Suggest
- Summarize
- Synthesize
- Translate
- Write
Research Skills
- Analyze
- Clarify
- Collect
- Compare
- Conduct
- Critique
- Detect
- Determine
- Diagnose
- Evaluate
- Examine
- Experiment
- Explore
- Extract
- Formulate
- Gather
- Identify
- Inspect
- Interpret
- Interview
- Invent
- Investigate
- Locate
- Measure
- Organize
- Research
- Search
- Solve
- Summarize
- Survey
- Systematize
- Test
Technical Skills
- Adapt
- Assemble
- Build
- Calculate
- Compute
- Conserve
- Construct
- Convert
- Debug
- Design
- Determine
- Develop
- Engineer
- Fabricate
- Fortify
- Install
- Maintain
- Operate
- Overhaul
- Print
- Program
- Rectify
- Regulate
- Remodel
- Repair
- Replace
- Restore
- Solve
- Specialize
- Standardize
- Study
- Upgrade
- Utilize
Teaching Skills
- Adapt
- Advise
- Clarify
- Coach
- Communicate
- Conduct
- Coordinate
- Critique
- Develop
- Enable
- Encourage
- Evaluate
- Explain
- Facilitate
- Focus
- Guide
- Individualize
- Inform
- Instill
- Instruct
- Motivate
- Persuade
- Simulate
- Stimulate
- Teach
- Test
- Train
- Transmit
- Tutor
Financial/Data Skills
- Administer
- Adjust
- Allocate
- Analyze
- Appraise
- Assess
- Audit
- Balance
- Calculate
- Compute
- Conserve
- Correct
- Determine
- Develop
- Estimate
- Forecast
- Manage
- Market
- Measure
- Plan
- Program
- Project
- Reconcile
- Reduce
- Research
- Retrieve
Creative Skills
- Act
- Adapt
- Begin
- Combine
- Conceptualize
- Condense
- Create
- Customize
- Design
- Develop
- Direct
- Display
- Draw
- Entertain
- Establish
- Fashion
- Formulate
- Found
- Illustrate
- Initiate
- Institute
- Integrate
- Introduce
- Invent
- Model
- Modify
- Originate
- Perform
- Photograph
- Plan
- Revise
- Revitalize
- Shape
- Solve
Helping Skills
- Adapt
- Advocate
- Aid
- Answer
- Arrange
- Assess
- Assist
- Care For
- Clarify
- Coach
- Collaborate
- Contribute
- Cooperate
- Counsel
- Demonstrate
- Diagnose
- Educate
- Encourage
- Ensure
- Expedite
- Facilitate
- Familiarize
- Further
- Guide
- Help
- Insure
- Intervene
- Motivate
- Provide
- Refer
- Rehabilitate
- Present
- Resolve
- Simplify
- Supply
- Support
- Volunteer
Organization/Detail Skills
- Approve
- Arrange
- Catalog
- Categorize
- Chart
- Classify
- Code
- Collect
- Compile
- Correspond
- Distribute
- Execute
- File
- Generate
- Implement
- Incorporate
- Inspect
- Log
- Maintain
- Monitor
- Obtain
- Operate
- Order
- Organize
- Prepare
- Process
- Provide
- Purchase
- Record
- Register
- Reserve
- Respond
- Review
- Route
- Schedule
- Screen
- Set Up
- Submit
- Supply
- Standardize
- Systematize
- Update
- Validate
- Verify
More Verbs For Accomplishments
- Achieve
- Complete
- Expand
- Exceed
- Improve
- Pioneer
- Reduce (Losses)
- Resolve (Issues)
- Restore
- Spearhead
- Succeed
- Surpass
- Transform
- Win
1)
List of Action Verbs for Resumes & Professional Profiles, Wake Forest University, http://career.opcd.wfu.edu/files/2011/05/Action-Verbs-for-Resumes.pdf
resources/action-verbs.txt · Last modified: 2018/04/12 23:55 (external edit)
