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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

Problem solving at BrightSpark Digital

Working out what is actually wrong before deciding what to do about it.

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Workdays to walk through

  1. Workday 01 · Reply All

    Monday · 8:52 AM

    You sent one message late Friday to close out a loose end. By Monday morning it has been forwarded to nine people, and not one of them read it the way you meant it.

  2. Workday 02 · Nobody Said No

    Wednesday · 9:40 AM

    Denise hands you a brief and disappears into back-to-back calls. Nobody tells you the wrong thing. Nobody tells you the right thing either.

  3. Workday 03 · The Deadline That Won't Move

    Monday · 10:15 AM

    Marcus's copy for the Dunmore relaunch isn't coming by Wednesday, and you're the one who knows it first. The question isn't whether to tell someone. It's who, and when.

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

Agricultural supply · Yard and counter

Croft & Sons Feed Supply

The Wrong Load

The wrong animal feed has reached a farm forty minutes away.

Enter workday

Retail · Independent bookshop and event space

Kettle & Quire Books

The Signing

An author arrives before setup is finished with specific requests for the signing table.

Enter workday