Design for How People Build Skills

2 Analyzing the Scope of the Skill

In which we ask, “What do these skills look like in the real world?”

Identifying Skills—A Few Pesky Definitions

So now that we’ve defined what we mean by the term skill, we need to apply that to defining sets of skills.

Before we dig into this, I want to look at a few other definitions. One of the big challenges with discussing skills is that people use the same words but mean different things. I can't fix that, but we can try to at least agree on terms within this book.

We spent time in the previous chapter defining skill and differentiating it from procedures. Now let's take on a two other terms: capability and competency.

I’m borrowing a few definitions from the Association for Talent Development. ...