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Sunday, December 05, 2010

How to Treat People

Don't talk to all your staff or all your clients/customers the same way, because they're not the same.

The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition posits that there are five stages people go through:

1. Novice
--wants to be given a manual, told what to do, with no decisions possible.

2. Advanced beginner
--needs a bit of freedom, but is unable to quickly describe a hierarchy of which parts are more important than others.

3. Competent
--wants the ability to make plans, create routines and choose among activities.

4. Proficient
--the more freedom you offer, the more you expect, the more you'll get.

5. Expert
--writes the manual, doesn't follow it.

If you treat an expert like a novice, you'll fail.

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