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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

Professional judgment at BrightSpark Digital

Reading the context and choosing a response that fits this place, today.

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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

Coastal hospitality — inn, dining room and bar

The Cormorant

The Allergy Table

An allergy question calls for verified kitchen information, not a quick assumption.

Enter workday

Food processing · Grading and packing line

Harrow Plain Packhouse

The Truck at Eleven

Borderline produce must be assessed against the specification as the truck arrives.

Enter workday

Retail — home goods

Rise & Co. Homeware

The Return

A return outside the standard policy tests the limits of your authority.

Enter workday