The Skills Transformation Playbook is a reference guide for those who are intent on transforming their company, NGO/non-profit, or government agency into a human skills-based organization. 

This document isn’t intended to convince you that the skills-based model is the future of organizations (although I firmly believe it is). Instead, it offers a variety of questions about the ways that catalysts can encourage the development of a vision and a plan for their organization to embrace a skills framework. And if your organization has already embarked on its skills journey, this can serve as a checklist for questions and strategies that might have been missed.

I’m not normally a big fan of sports analogies, but “playbook” is a useful framing for each of the following components. They don’t necessarily have to be done in a particular order, but they are complementary to each other, and this sequence may be the most useful to adopt if your organization has little already in place. Rather than listing strategies, I’ve included a range of questions for you and your allies to answer as you co-create and execute your plan for transforming into a skills-based organization.

Of course, any human is far more than their skills, and there are many other attributes and capacities that every person brings to their work and their learning. Any skills initiative must embrace the whole person, in ways that are supportive but not intrusive. The goal of your initiative should be to maximize the human potential of everyone in your organization.

The full content is available in the downloadable version.

Gary A. Bolles is a senior advisor to acaso. He is the author of “The Next Rules of Work,” and serves as the Global Fellow for Transformation for Singularity University.