<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nAchieving unconscious competence in one or even some things is not where it all ends, our crowning glory. No, the world is a whole lot bigger than that! As we achieve conscious competence in a certain field or process or endeavour, we will sooner or later discover that there is, in fact, a lot more to learn and get better at. Surprise, but we will also learn that most of what we learn has parallels with our core business functions. Let me give you a simple example. You know what a sonnet is, right? A fourteen-line poem , each of whose lines must be in iambic pentameter. This means that each line must go like this: Da-da…da-da…da-da…da-da…da-da. Other than that, you are free to say whatever you want. Would be nice if it did make some sense and actually rhymes, but you get the point. Can you extrapolate this to your business processes? Let me know!<\/span><\/p>\nIn the model, when we learn that there is something new that we might have to or that we might like to master, we fall back down to conscious incompetence, because we then know that we have to start all over again. Unconscious incompetence is then the area where we ought to be competent at some things or competencies, but which we may not have realized yet. They are still in our blind spots. Otherwise, unconscious incompetence would almost comprise a universal set!<\/span><\/p>\nI hope you found this useful for you. Do let me know your thoughts!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When discussing topics like “multi-tasking”, one of the things I raise is that we ought, not to “multi-task”, but to achieve proficiency in as many relevant competencies as possible, to the extent that those competencies, which may involve processes, become, as it were, “automatic”. I like to illustrate this by using the autonomic and sympathetic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[373,5,13,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Unconscious-Competence.jpg?fit=1446%2C1094&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2EiEv-Ap","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8844,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/8844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}