IQ Skills
Wheel

Being more aware of how to interact as a team member in a wider context helps you to become a more rounded professional. The engagement, influence and impact area of the skills wheel considers how quarrying and mineral extractives professionals work within teams and their wider communities and networks.

Learning how to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses and being able to use them in the most effective way is an important part of growing personally and professionally. Successful professionals within the quarrying and mineral extracting industry are aware of their own personal attributes and how to develop their skills in different areas.

Knowledge and innovation focuses on all areas of site operational issues as well as general management advice. This area of the skills wheel drives the quarrying and mineral extractives industries to assist the continual improvement productivity, efficiency and health and safety benefits all staff as well as company performance.

Everyone working within the industry should be aware of the legislation and key documents that underpin the best practices adopted in the workplace. Standards and professionalism are a key part of the IQ skills wheel because it addresses the key regulations and standards that affect the quarrying and mineral extracting industries.