Core Skills
Not a stage in the cycle, and not scoped to one altitude — skills that support all of it, whether you're planning, doing, or reflecting, alone or with a whole organization around you.
Everything under Self is about running yourself; Leadership now holds Leading and Managing, and Organization holds Strategic Planning — the skills that scale with headcount. What's left here doesn't scale with altitude at all — Communication and AI Fundamentals matter exactly as much whether you're working alone or running a whole company, which is why they're grouped on their own below rather than under any one level.
Professional Development
Cross-cutting, not altitude-scoped — these skills matter whether you're working solo or leading a company.
Communication
Written communication, storytelling, public speaking, and networking — ordered by how a message actually moves from you to someone else.
AI Fundamentals
A learning path, not a single skill: understand it, learn to use it, apply it to your work, then make it habitual.
AI Beyond Fundamentals
A hands-on course for engineers: RAG, evals, guardrails, agents and harnesses, and the architecture calls that hold up in production.
Decision-Making
Also cross-cutting — how a person, a team, or any other group actually decides when nothing else spells it out.