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Coaching the Nine Skills

The calibration practice for AI-era skills

AI is changing which skills are necessary to help your business achieve success. Most organizations are asking leaders to build capabilities they can’t yet define consistently, using judgment that varies from one manager to the next.

Coaching the Nine Skills gives leaders a shared language, an evidence-based rating practice, and a way to develop people through the work already in motion, not through generic training.

1-Day Training Session

For up to 12 Leaders

What Your Organization Gains

A shared definition of competency

Leaders learn what each skill looks like in real work, from awareness through independent practice and multiplying others.

Ratings that can be trusted

A common case and explicit evidence rules replace private standards, halo effects, and unsupported judgments.

Coaching tied to real work

Every plan names the assignment, exposure, feedback, or pairing that will create the next level of growth.

An actionable view of team capability

Aggregate patterns reveal where coaching will work, where internal expertise can be shared, and where broader investment is needed.

Capability that stays with your leaders

Participants learn and apply the practice themselves, so the system lives inside the organization after the engagement ends.

Who It’s For

People leaders with direct reports across design, research, product management, content, and related product-experience disciplines.

Up to 12 leaders per session, typically managing 4 to 10 direct reports each. Leaders of leaders assess their own direct reports, not the full organization.

The Nine Skills Leaders Learn to Coach

AI Literacy & Augmented Practice

Craft Mastery & Human-Centered Principles

Product & Business Acumen

Change Management & Resilience

Systems Thinking

Data Literacy

Cross-Functional Influence

Problem Framing & Strategic Judgment

Storytelling & Executive Communication

How the Engagement Works

1

Prepare

Sponsor confirms scope; leaders and case materials are readied.

2

Calibrate

One-day session: leaders learn the nine skills and rubric, then align on ratings.

3

Apply

Each leader rates two direct reports and builds two coaching plans on the spot.

4

Complete the Team

Over two weeks, leaders rate all remaining reports and build a plan for each.

5

Decide & Measure

90-minute sponsor readout to choose the first two investments. Re-rate at six months.

Ready to Turn Capability Into a Coaching Practice?

Give your leaders a shared language for AI-era readiness, and a system that keeps working long after the session ends.

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