Learning, Capability & Competence
Models of how people learn and develop capability
19 tools in this category
- AAR (After Action Review) — Four blunt questions asked right after an event so a team captures the learning while it's fresh.
- Action Learning — A small set works one real problem through questions only, no advice, to build both the solution and the thinker.
- Action Learning Day (2016) — CCL SA's full-day format combining live action-learning sets, input sessions, and a committed follow-up review.
- Adult Learning — Knowles' andragogy - design learning from what adults need to know and can apply now, not a syllabus.
- Capability Maturity Model — Rate process maturity from ad hoc to self-optimising, then climb one level at a time rather than jumping to best practice.
- Communities of Practice — Wenger's domain-community-practice model for growing a learning group instead of running one-off training.
- Competencies — Rates a person against role-specific behaviours to target development, instead of promoting on gut feel.
- Facilitator Benchmarks — Rate facilitation against observable competency benchmarks to target practice at the real gap.
- Hierarchy of Competence — Four stages of learning a skill, from not knowing what you don't know to doing it without thinking.
- Kolb Learning Styles — Learning runs through experience, reflection, thinking and doing. Most people quietly skip one stage of the cycle.
- Learning Styles — Pick the right model for the context, then redesign delivery around how people actually learn.
- Learning Styles Inventory — Score the profile against Kolb's four-stage cycle to find the learning stage someone habitually skips.
- Model Thinking — Runs a decision through several models at once to see where they agree and where the real uncertainty lies.
- Multiple Intelligences — Names eight distinct kinds of capability, challenging the idea that one narrow measure of 'smart' covers everyone.
- Peer Supervision — A leaderless peer group works one practitioner's live case through structured turns of question and reflection.
- Stages of Competence — Four stages of learning a skill, from not knowing what you don't know to competence that no longer needs thought.
- VAK Learning Styles — Three channels for taking in information, visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, to design training that reaches everyone.
- altMBA - Project Prompts — A time-boxed brief that forces you to ship a piece of thinking in days, then face peer feedback on it.
- altMBA - Ship It Journal — A daily accountability log for finishing and sending work, not just working on it.