NOTRE DAME OF COTABATO, INC.

Humane

• able to manifest love and respect for one another
• able to extend help to persons in need
• express sensibility and sensitivity to the needs of others by being compassionate, humanitarian and charitable
• consider the welfare of others
• express solidarity with the poor and those in dire need
• willing and ready to help other people
• manifest other-centeredness
• able to sympathize and empathize
• manifest joy, love and humility in his/her interactions with others

Excellence

• being efficient and effective in doing things for the good of the entire community
• come up with unique, outstanding and astounding outputs
• models excellence at all times
• do the best way he/she can be
• being effective and efficient
• produce quality/exemplary/dignified performance
• being locally and globally competitive
• display desirable pattern of behavior worthy of emulation

Adaptive

• being flexible at times when confronted with difficult situations
• able to blend with other culture which are healthy and helpful for the positive growth of one’s self and the community
• manifest openness to changes specially when these changes are necessary for the growth of the community
• shows openness to the challenges brought about by trends/changes in the community/society
• being appreciative and respectful of others’ culture and religious affiliations

Responsive

• able to find ways and means to do/perform well in the assigned task
• able to manifest creativity in doing things
• able to innovative
• able to respond to immediate needs
• being practical
• being imaginative and inventive
• capable of devising ways and means to make things better or to improve situation

Transformative

• being an instrument causing others to become better persons
• influence others to form positive attitudes and convictions
• make a difference in the lives of others
• able to respond with sense of urgency to the pressing problems and issues in the community and society
• being a catalyst of social change
• willing to accept mistakes and change for the better
• express an attitude of counter culture of the prevailing unacceptable culture and practices in the society
• being able to depart from the (logic of exclusion to the logic of encounter)