Pick one to start

Thank you all for your great suggestions (you can see them all in one place in this document). Now it’s time to get down to the nitty-gritty.

After all the ideas you provided, I found 8 “big buckets” or general areas of competence. They are, in no particular order:

• Quality assurance
• Problem-solving
• Communication
• Project management
• Professional development
• Customer service
• Creativity
• Technical skills

We may add or subtract from these as we continue. But for now, we’ll take one of them and build out specific tasks that support it. I’m going to get fussy and challenge you to express your ideas as “verb – object”. So, not “know how to make breakfast” or “understand why breakfast is important” but things like, “Explain the physical and mental benefits of eating breakfast”, “Determine how many people need breakfast”, “Plan breakfast menu”, “List required ingredients”, “Check on available quantities of ingredients”, “Purchase missing ingredients, in required quantities, balancing nutrition, cost, and quality”, etc. You’re all going to have to think like IDs! I’ll help and pester as required.

Someone pick a bucket, any bucket, to start. First person to post here gets the honour of choosing and we’ll all follow. Once we’ve established a starting point, I’ll ask everyone to post the actual, observable, and measurable tasks that fill the bucket.