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Table 4 Key quotes from participants and major themes (transferable skills) identified

From: Beyond content knowledge: transferable skills connected to experience as a peer-leader in a PLTL program and long-term impacts

Participant’s current position

Quotes

Transferable skills coded

Chemist

“I am saying PLTL definitely influences your leadership skill and next you want to take leadership positions out at work wherever.”

“I would take to be a much better public speaker and getting into different leadership roles”

“It changed it helped me it boost my confidence in my field about myself…it made me love organic chemistry more”

“…learned how to take something complex and break it down for the people to understand. I definitely do that all the time.”

“We kind of collaborate on projects and trying to get them approved and gather ideas and stuff and see how many projects we can do…this is the main basis of what I do.”

“I think it gave me the confidence to know that I could become a leader”

Leadership

Collaboration/team work

Problem-solving

Self-confidence

Registered nurse

“It kind of teaches you how to be a mentor… and that's something that regardless of what facet of nursing you go into it will follow you through the rest of your career.”

“I think it taught me to except the unexpected”

“It definitely made me more confident about being able to teach in grad school”

Leadership

Coping with challenges

Self-confidence

Product design engineer

“…I got to convey that information in a way that all those groups can understand fairly clearly”

“I will be more comfortable and more confident in myself to take on management type of position”

Coping with challenges

Collaboration/team-work

Economicsconsultant

“Every sort of manager or partner has certain way of doing things and your ideas might be better but the way that you like to do things is different”

“So I would be able to talk about ideas and concepts [in the problem-solving sessions with my team] freely without like this is right or this is wrong.”

Coping with challenges

Problem-solving

Pharmacist

“…it developed me into identifying the different ways people learn and then also catering to those. So I think that it was a very huge selling point personally for me”

Coping with challenges

New product development associate

“you are in a meeting or giving a presentation and like yeah you really want to try to get everybody engaged in what you are talking about…”

“We kind of collaborate on projects and trying to get them approved and gather ideas and stuff and see how many projects we can do…this is the main basis of what I do.”

Leadership

Self-confidence

Consultant

“Being able to get engaged in a team and work with everyone’s individual strengths and assessing individual communication style and PLTL was definitely a factor I think in my overall role being able to work well with a team.”

“Synthesize hard problems is exactly what we are doing in

management strategy given the world of different problems that we are facing from all different types of industries that functions…problem solving approach translated into my engagement with the supervisors as well.”

Self-confidence

Problem-solving