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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

Conflict navigation at Harrow Plain Packhouse

Handling disagreement without automatically escalating it or swallowing it.

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Workdays to walk through

  1. Workday 01 · The Truck at Eleven

    Monday · 5:52 AM

    A crate of grade-outs is heading for the export box because the truck can't wait. Nobody asked you to look away. Nobody had to.

  2. Workday 02 · Line Speed

    Tuesday · 5:40 PM

    Two new arrivals barely speak English, the belt doesn't slow down for anyone, and asking a question in front of the whole line feels harder than the work itself.

  3. Workday 03 · Your Initials on the Sheet

    Thursday · 9:15 AM

    Monday's load went out short and mislabeled, and the paperwork has your initials on it. Denise, Marisol and Walt each remember Monday a little differently.

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

Retail — home goods

Rise & Co. Homeware

The Return

A senior coworker presses for a refund exception in front of waiting customers.

Enter workday

Manufacturing · Production line

Fenmore Line 4

Eleven Minutes

An experienced coworker suggests a workaround for a faulty safety guard.

Enter workday