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Four Steps To Competent Writing
Make a plan to enhance your skills
Writing, like any other skill, takes practice.
I’ve already written about the 70:20:10 rule and how we learn 10% of a skill in the classroom, 20% through coaching from others, and 70% by doing the task solo.
The competency ladder is another tool we can use.
When we learn, we follow four stages. The bliss of incompetence in stage one slowly transforms into being truly competent and underestimating how much we know in stage four.
Looking at where we are on the competency ladder will help us determine which areas in your writing need development.
The four stages of the competency ladder are:
- Unconscious Incompetence
- Conscious Incompetence
- Conscious Competence
- Unconscious Competence
1. Unconscious Incompetence
This is where we all start writing, whether earlier in our lives or last week as a new Medium writer.
At this stage, we don’t know what we don’t know. We are blissful in our new hobby of writing and churn out content willy-nilly. This is the stage where people think they don’t need any further development.
