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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)