The ObservatoryCompetence and development
The chance to use your strengths and learn new things.
Questions to ask yourself
- 1How often do you get to use what you are really good at?
- 2When did you last learn something new at work?
- 3Which of your strengths is underused?
- 4What would you like to get better at over the next year?
- 5What is the first step: a task, a course, a conversation?
In the app, you rate the area 0–10, answer the questions, and watch how your answers shift over time.
Getting started
Exercise
Before the big moment
Meet the body's alarm in the hours before a presentation, an exam or an interview, without pretending it is not there
8 min · Discipline
Exercise
Skills map
List your skills, rate how strong you are in each and how in demand they are, and see where development gives the most.
20 min · Rationality
Exercise
Learning goals, not image goals
Goals about looking competent make you brittle. Goals about getting better make you persistent. Rewrite yours.
10 min · Rationality
Exercise
The evidence that you can handle it
Self-trust is not a feeling you wait for. It is built from four sources. Here you gather the evidence and top up the weakest one.
12 min · Rationality
Exercise
Try a new role
"I'm just like this" is a hypothesis, not a fact. Write a script for a different you, and play it in a single scene.
13 min · Discipline