The Six Skills

Six skills that outlast the tool.

The tools change every week. These do not. Six management skills, learnable in weeks, that keep working no matter what ships next.

Why these six

They are management skills, not IT skills.

Your people already have the judgment. What they are missing is a way to point it at a machine. That is teachable, and it does not expire when the next model ships.

01
Context Assembly

Give it what only you know: the background, the constraints, the examples, the real goal.

In practice. The gap between a generic answer and one that fits your business is everything nobody thought to say out loud.

02
Quality Judgment

Tell work that is genuinely good from work that just sounds right, and catch what is missing.

In practice. The model is confident either way. Knowing the difference is the whole job.

03
Task Decomposition

Break a job into the right pieces: what to hand over whole, and what to split up first.

In practice. Most failures are simply a task that was too big to hand over in one go.

04
Iterative Refinement

Fix the instruction, not just the output. Improve the machine, not the one answer.

In practice. The second and third pass is where the value actually shows up.

05
Workflow Integration

Wire it into how the work really runs, from a one-off chat into something repeatable.

In practice. A trick nobody uses twice is a demo. A workflow is what survives Monday.

06
Frontier Recognition

Know where the tool's limits are, and whether you have given it enough to stay inside them.

In practice. This is the one that keeps untrained use from failing confidently.

The evidence
Harvard and BCG watched 758 consultants work this way. Quality rose 40% inside the frontier of what AI does well, and correct answers fell 19 points outside it. Same people, same tool. The skill is the whole difference.

How your team learns them

On their own work, in weeks.

We do not teach the six skills in a slide deck. We coach them one to one, on each person's real deliverables, until they stick. That is the program.

Give your people the six.

A short conversation about where your team is, and which skill to train first.

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