Now that we've introduced the concept of a leadership framework with competencies, we need to spend some to talk about how we'll measure skill level proficiency for each of those competencies. This will become particularly important as you work on your leadership development plan and set goals and targets for your skill level proficiency. Here within the Center for Engineering Leadership, we use Bloom's Taxonomy. This six level scale gives us an indication of level of proficiency for each of those skills. Let's begin with the base level, that of Remembering. This is the ability to retrieve out of long term memory, relevant facts to use on the job. At the next level, Understanding, is the ability to make sense out of it, and put it in context. At the Applying level, this is the ability to use the skill appropriately on the job. As we move further up, the Analyzing level, this is the ability to break the skill into its component parts, relate those parts to each other, and perhaps to relate them to other leadership competencies. At the Evaluating level, we're talking about using all of the information related to that skill to make effective decisions. This is the decision making level of the taxonomy. At the top level, that of Creating. This is the ability to use all of the information, all of the analysis to take decisions in a new and different direction. To apply those skills in different settings and different contexts. As a recruiter for my organization on college campuses, one of my expectations was that, when I was interviewing students, those that I was looking for in particular would at a minimum be at the Analyzing level of both their technical and leadership skill competencies. As you develop your leadership plan, as part of this course, you will use Bloom's Taxonomy to assess not only where you are today, but to establish targets for where you want to be in the future.