====== Action Verbs ======

Action verbs make your policy more precise. Here are some examples shared by Wake Forest University((List of Action Verbs for Resumes & Professional Profiles, Wake Forest University, http://career.opcd.wfu.edu/files/2011/05/Action-Verbs-for-Resumes.pdf)).

===== 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