Welcome to Day 1 !
Today, you will choose one specific situation in which another person relies on your experience, judgment, or problem-solving ability.
You will use this situation as your excavation site for the rest of the course.
Expertise is easier to see in action
When someone asks what you are good at, you might answer with a broad field such as strategy, facilitation, innovation, leadership, design, operations, or consulting. These labels name a category of work. They do not show what you notice, decide, or do differently within that work.
Broad questions also make expertise harder to recall. Your knowledge did not develop as one organized explanation. It developed while you solved problems, made decisions, corrected mistakes, and adapted to changing conditions.
This means that the best place to begin is a specific situation.
Think about the work that people bring to you when they are uncertain. Consider the problem they ask you to examine, the decision they want you to help make, or the result they trust you to produce.
You do not need to excavate your entire career. One well-chosen site can reveal enough material to begin.