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Skills plan

Make a skills plan

Pick a workplace and a skill and get a plan: workdays to try, small real-world practice steps, tools and further learning (free and paid options), and one next move. Start with a suggestion, or choose your own.

A few good places to start

Choose my own workplace and skill

Step 1 · Choose a workplace

Step 2 · Choose a skill

Your plan

Communication at Fenmore Line 4

Saying what you mean in a way the other person can actually use.

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Not the same as: Being talkative. A short, clear message from a quiet person is strong communication.

Workdays to walk through

  1. Workday 01 · Eleven Minutes

    Monday · 5:52 AM

    The guard on Press 4 sticks if you close it properly. Everyone bypasses it. Today it's your hands near the die.

  2. Workday 02 · The Ninety-Second Handover

    Wednesday · 5:50 AM

    Nothing is on fire. There's just a repetitive check, a handover note nobody quite reads, and eight hours of staying awake to a job that mostly runs itself.

  3. Workday 03 · After the Trucks Left

    Friday · 2:14 PM

    A customer flagged out-of-tolerance housings — from a batch that already shipped. The dates on the boxes point straight at your run on Press 4.

Practice steps

Choose a step that fits your situation. Mark a step when you have tried it in a setting that fits your life — at work, in a class, while volunteering, caregiving, in your community or in a practice conversation. Nobody is grading this.

The same skill somewhere else

Digital marketing agency

BrightSpark Digital

Reply All

A status update about a delay reads like blame when it reaches the client's full email thread.

Enter workday

Agricultural supply · Yard and counter

Croft & Sons Feed Supply

The Wrong Load

A driver waits on the phone at a farm while a loading error is traced back at the yard.

Enter workday

Coastal hospitality — inn, dining room and bar

The Cormorant

The Allergy Table

A guest asks whether the chowder is safe for someone with a shellfish allergy.

Enter workday