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SkillRise Spark

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

Self-awareness at Falls Health Clinic

Noticing your own reactions, preferences, limits and patterns.

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Workdays to walk through

  1. Workday 01 · The Favor

    Monday · 8:52 AM

    Your cousin's husband wants to know if his wife came in last week, and why. He's not being cruel about it. He's just asking.

  2. Workday 02 · A Slow Afternoon

    Tuesday · 1:15 PM

    Nothing urgent is happening, which is its own kind of trap. No-shows, a records request and a phone that won't stop, and every small decision is yours alone.

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

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An uncomfortable email mistake brings up defensiveness as well as the need to explain what happened.

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Education · Student services

Kesterly College Front Desk

The Form He Can't Read

A slow-moving form raises questions about your own assumptions and patience.

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