Soft Skills

• Communication medium

  Communication at work is getting an idea, a decision or a problem into someone else's head accurately enough that they can act on it: explaining to people…

• Teamwork & Collaboration small

  Teamwork is sharing context so other people can act without you, unblocking them when you are the obstacle, and disagreeing without stalling the work.

• Mentoring small

  Mentoring is growing somebody else's skill through reviewing their work, pairing on it, and asking questions that make them think rather than answers that…

• Problem Solving small

  Problem solving here means breaking an unclear problem down until the next action is obvious.

• Time Management small

  Time management is estimating how long work takes, choosing what to do first against a stated priority, and protecting blocks of uninterrupted time for…

• Portfolio Building small

  A portfolio is a small number of case studies showing how you think: the problem, the constraints, the options you considered, what you decided and what…

• Interview Prep & Whiteboarding small

  Interview preparation is practising the two things an interview measures: explaining your own work clearly, and solving a problem while somebody watches.

• Freelancing & Client Work medium

  Freelancing is doing the work and running the business around it: finding clients, agreeing what is being delivered and for how much, and getting paid for…

• Technical Presentation small

  A technical presentation puts work or a decision in front of a room so that they can follow it and decide.