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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 Rise & Co. Homeware

Noticing your own reactions, preferences, limits and patterns.

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Workdays to walk through

  1. Workday 01 · The Return

    Saturday · 11:40 AM

    A customer wants to return something the policy doesn't cover, in front of a line of other customers, and Denise isn't answering her phone.

  2. Workday 02 · An Ordinary Tuesday

    Tuesday · 8:55 AM

    Restocking, a schedule change texted at 9pm last night, and Aaliyah's section looking untouched again. Nothing here is a crisis. It still adds up.

  3. Workday 03 · Teaching What You Weren't Taught

    Thursday · 1:10 PM

    Denise wants you to train Toby on damaged-stock write-offs. You've done it exactly once, badly, and nobody ever checked your work.

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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