Title: Demonstrate big-picture thinking.
Course: Family and Consumer Sciences Exploratory I (19903-12) > Section: Demonstrating Professional Competencies

Demonstration includes

- defining big-picture thinking as an understanding of one's role in fulfilling the mission of the workplace and a consideration of the social, economic, and environmental effects of one's actions
- identifying the organization’s structure, culture, policies, and procedures, as well as its role and position within the community, industry, and economy.

Process/Skill Questions:

- Why is it important to understand where one fits within the family, school, workplace, and the community?
- How might a person’s actions affect the school, community, and workplace?
- How do an organization’s vision and mission statements help people understand the organization’s big picture?
- How can knowledge of the big picture of an industry help with career planning?

Teacher Resources:

- Big-picture Thinking Lesson Plan #1
- Big-picture Thinking Lesson Plan #2
- Big-picture Thinking Activity, Career and Technical Education Consortium of States (CTECS)