7 skills.
Use when asked to summarize or apply ideas from popular self-improvement and business books (Grit, Start with Why, The Lean Startup, The Power of Habit, Zero to One, and others) — grounded in joelparkerhenderson/always-improving's curated summary list. Not a substitute for reading the actual books.
Use when asked how to handle a high-stakes, emotionally charged conversation — the CPR/CRIB/AMPP/WWWF frameworks from the "Crucial Conversations" book — grounded in joelparkerhenderson/crucial-conversations, distinct from general team communication norms (see ways-of-working).
Use when asked to design, audit, or fix practice so it actually builds skill — a goal just past current ability, full concentration, immediate specific feedback, and repetition with correction — or when someone has practiced for a long time without improving. Distinct from [[getting-feedback]] (how to receive feedback well), [[always-improving]] (the general habit of continuous improvement), and [[smart-criteria]] (how to word a goal), each of which it draws on.
Use when asked how to seek out or receive feedback well — actively soliciting it, listening without immediately defending, separating the signal from delivery, and deciding what to act on — as the complement to giving-feedback.
Use when asked to give feedback effectively — being specific and behavior-focused, timing, balancing positive and constructive feedback, and delivering it in a way the recipient can actually act on — as the complement to getting-feedback.
Use when asked to write or review text for inclusive language — gender-neutral role names and pronouns, disability-respectful phrasing, or non-gendered technology/business terminology (master/slave, whitelist/blacklist alternatives) — grounded in joelparkerhenderson/inclusive-language. Adapt to the specific audience and context rather than applying mechanically.
Use when asked to analyze a problem as an interconnected system — feedback loops, stocks and flows, leverage points — rather than a chain of independent parts, before reaching for a specific method that assumes linear cause-and-effect (as distinct from applying vanguard-method's service-specific application, or causal-analysis-based-on-system-theory's accident-investigation application, of the same underlying discipline).