Are you at Stage 3 or Stage 4?: Part 1 of the Conscious Competence Ladder

The Conscious Competence Ladder 

Regarded as an intuitive approach, The Conscious Competence Ladder helps you manage your emotions during a learning process that may be uncomfortable due to you recognizing that we necessarily may not know the answers to, for instance, how to start, build, and sustain a business. The Conscious Competence Ladder helps us to be more in touch with the emotions of the people we are teaching so we can better train them through the learning process.

The Conscious Competence Ladder takes us through 4 stages from Unconscious Incompetence to Unconscious Competence. Here are the levels described from mindtools.com

Stage 1 – Unconscious Incompetence (You Don't Know that You Don't Know)
Stage 2 – Conscious Incompetence (You Know that You Don't Know)
Stage 3 – Conscious Competence (You Know that You Know)
Stage 4 – Unconscious Competence (You Don't Know that You Know – It Just Seems Easy!)

As we process each stage, we gain knowledge and if we choose to experience each stage, we also gain the ability to do things recognizing we may be highly competent in one area, but have no skill in another area. Your competence level will depend on the task or job at hand.

Unconscious Incompetence 

If someone wants to become a business owner, they have to become aware of what they don’t know and have to accept that they don’t know it. This is the beginning of the learning process. Here we are unaware, unsure, and probably lacking confidence with a skill or task. Some of us in the entrepreneur world can be very ignorant that we don’t have all the skills and talents needed to handle certain businesses. This stage helps us identify how important it is to learn that we don't know that we don’t know and we need to be aware of what we need to have and sustain that business we sole desire. Now it’s time to take the next step to Conscious Incompetence and become aware of what you need to learn about what don’t know.

 

You don’t know what you don’t know! 

You don’t know the limits of the area of knowledge you seek to understand! 

Onward and Upward! 

Question: What would be the dream business for you? Are you already working that dream business? If so, tell us about it and what challenges have you met and endured?

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