Competence & The Developing Leader

The reader may be familiar with the Conscious Competence learning model, commonly attributed to Gordon Training International and Noel Burch.  The model includes four stages of personal development and learning new skills including:

1.  Unconscious Incompetence

2.  Conscious Incompetence

3.  Conscious Competence

4.  Unconscious Competence

In the first stage the learner doesn’t know what they don’t know.  In the second stage they discover what they didn’t know.  As they work on developing the skill, they do so consciously – with thought, practice, patience, persistence, trial and error.  Once the learner masters the skill, the behavior becomes “second nature” and moves to the final stage of unconscious competence.

Good luck in your development as a leader!

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