These include areas such as talent and emotional intelligence. They are much harder to teach, test, or measure then skills or knowledge. In basic terms, abilities are natural or innate, while skills are learned behaviors. A skill can be taught, tested, and measured. However, abilities are a broad term for human capacity that are harder to teach, test, or measure. Since skills are the proficiencies developed through training or experience they can be further developed and improved over time by through knowledge and practice.
There are however abilities that can be improved and honed to some extent. For example, planning and organizing can be an ability that was inherited, but can further developed by learning new techniques. Learning Objectives. Developing a Training Program. These are motor skills where combinations of hand and body movements are learnt and performed at the right moment and technique to make the performance smooth and attractive.
Watching a ballerina perform is like seeing poetry in action, so smooth and gliding are her actions and movements. However, there are also cognitive skills as well as perceptual skills that are revealed in tasks like learning a language and learning computer programming respectively. Ability is the internal quality that makes it possible for a person to learn or master a skill easily.
Abilities are either there or are lacking, but every person has a different set of abilities because of his genetic code that he gets from his parents. This is why we find that some people are good at languages, and others are naturally good at sports. Some make good dancers while others cannot learn to dance smoothly and look as they are being made to dance because of their innate abilities or the lack of these abilities. Sports that require good hand and eye coordination are picked up easily by people having inherent quality of good coordination.
On the other hand, there are people who are innately good at sports that require muscle power or endurance. Abilities are the qualities of being able to do something. There is a fine line between skills and abilities. Most people would say the differentiator is whether the thing in question was learned or innate.
I think of organization and prioritization as abilities that can help an employee develop their instructional design skills. Recruiters look for knowledge, skills, and abilities during the hiring process. Managers use KSAs when they are considering employees for transfers and promotions. KSAs are used as the company creates and updates their replacement and succession plans.
As we talk more about the skills gap , it will be important to understand the difference because the way we obtain knowledge, skills, and abilities can vary. For instance, if the issue is knowledge, then maybe we can create an in-house library that employees can check out books on the topics. But if the challenge is skills, the answer might be training. And if abilities need to be improved, is it possible to develop personal action plans that give employees the opportunity to refine their abilities.
Thank goodness we have the terminology purists to correct us on the words. It has the added benefit of aligning very neatly with the Cognitive K , Psychomotor S , and Affective A learning domains identified by Bloom. Brian — I like bringing attitude into the mix.
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