Managerial Guidance

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Moving Beyond the Score: A Practical Guide to Skills Based Growth

Learn how to transition to a skills based organization by focusing on qualitative feedback rather than scores in training and development.

7 min Sep 19, 2025

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What is Skill Clustering?

Learn how skill clustering helps managers identify employee capabilities and predict learning paths to build stronger teams and reduce business stress.

5 min Sep 19, 2025

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What is Skill Readiness?

A detailed guide for managers on understanding skill readiness and how it impacts the ability of a team to execute strategic initiatives immediately.

4 min Sep 17, 2025

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Scaling Competence with Minimum Viable Knowledge

Learn how the Minimum Viable Knowledge (MVK) framework helps managers build skills-based organizations by reducing cognitive friction and accelerating employee development.

7 min Sep 15, 2025

Agile L&D A/B Testing Instructional Strategies

A/B Testing Your Training for a Skills Based Organization

Learn how to use A/B testing and agile L&D to build a skills based organization by comparing video and text instructional strategies for faster competency.

7 min Sep 6, 2025

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What is an Instructional Design Document?

Learn how an Instructional Design Document (IDD) serves as a vital blueprint for managers to create effective training and reduce organizational stress.

5 min Aug 26, 2025

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What is a Skill Footprint?

Discover how the skill footprint helps business owners and managers define the exact requirements for roles and projects to reduce hiring stress.

4 min Aug 19, 2025

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Moving Beyond Job Titles: The Shift to a Skills Based Organization

Learn how to transition to a skills based organization by moving past traditional job titles and sunsetting the smile sheet to focus on actual employee execution.

8 min Aug 12, 2025

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Leveraging the Testing Effect for Skills Based Growth

Discover how the testing effect and retrieval practice can help managers build a skills based organization and improve employee development pipelines.

8 min Aug 10, 2025

Sprint Planning Agile Management Team Productivity

What is Sprint Planning?

A comprehensive guide to sprint planning for business managers looking to improve team focus, project transparency, and operational efficiency.

4 min Aug 10, 2025

The SOP they learned six months ago is already fading.

Death of the Binder