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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

Reliability at Croft & Sons Feed Supply

Doing what you said, and saying so early when you can't.

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Not the same as: Never saying no. Agreeing to everything and delivering half is not reliable.

Workdays to walk through

  1. Workday 01 · The Wrong Load

    Monday · 7:52 AM

    Reuben calls from forty minutes out. The order you loaded isn't the order on the ticket. Someone at Marsh Farm is waiting on feed that won't grow the right calves.

    Where reliability shows up: After a loading error, the replacement shipment needs a careful check against the paperwork.

  2. Workday 02 · A Slow Morning

    Tuesday · 8:10 AM

    Nobody's called in an order in an hour. An older customer wants to talk more than he wants feed, and the bulletin board needs sorting. None of it feels like real work, and all of it is.

  3. Workday 03 · Grab That End

    Wednesday · 6:40 AM

    Denny wants a heavy pallet moved by hand instead of using the loader, and he's already halfway through doing it. Reuben's still thinking about the Marsh Farm mix-up, and Fenn's neighbor came in asking about the driving scheme.

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

Food processing · Grading and packing line

Harrow Plain Packhouse

The Truck at Eleven

A departure deadline puts pressure on consistent produce grading.

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