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Many skills require practice to remain at a high level of competence. The four stages suggest that individuals are initially unaware of how little they know, or unconscious of their incompetence. As they recognize their incompetence, they consciously acquire a skill, then consciously use it.
- Unconsciously Incompetent. “I don’t know what I don’t know.” Before an individual undertakes an activity that is novel to him, he trudges through the state of unconscious incompetence.
- Consciously Incompetent. “I know what I don’t know.” The second stage of proficiency, the phase of conscious incompetence starts when you develop consciousness about the things you do not know.
- Consciously Competent. “I grow and know and it starts to show.” Slowly taking over the role of the facilitator, an individual lodged in the third stage begins the adventure towards utmost competency.
- Unconsciously Competent or Mastery. “I simply go because of what I know.” As you build experience and expertise, you reach the stage of unconscious competence – wherein you do not have to think about the activity you are very good in.
- Stage 1: Unconscious Incompetence
- Stage 2: Conscious Incompetence
- Stage 3: Conscious Competence
- Stage 4: Unconscious Competence
The first of the four stages of competence is a state of unconscious incompetence. We have no idea how to do something. Most likely, we’re not even aware of all the things we don’t know. This can be due to ignorance, willful blindness or naivete. In the worst-case scenario, we don’t believe that the skill in question is even a real skill and theref...
At the stage of conscious incompetence, we become aware of our ignorance. Coming to terms with what we don’t know is a significant step to starting the learning process. Mind you, we still have no idea what we’re doing. But the analytical part of our brain has taken over and is aware of our lack of skill. At least we’re beginning to recognise our d...
Conscious competenceis the third of the Four Stages of Competence. We’ve finally learned something new. Now we actually understand what we’re doing and can explain how and why something works. We analyse the situation we’re in, and our analysis is correct. How did we get here? Through practice and experience. Consciously competent learners tend to ...
The final stage of our competence hierarchy is the psychological state of unconscious competence. As opposed to our dangerously wrong intuition at stage one, our intuition is now 100% correct. There are many expressions for this state of mastery. We act from muscle memory. We’re in the zone. We’re Zen, as philosopher Alan Wattswould describe it. Du...
Apr 8, 2024 · Conscious competence: The person can perform the skill with effort and concentration. They may need to follow rules or steps and practice frequently to improve their proficiency. Unconscious competence: The person can perform the skill automatically and effortlessly.
Mar 9, 2022 · Conscious competence is the stage at which people actively work to improve a certain skill, but are still quite new at it. This period is marked by trying things, failing, trying again, and getting better.
Jul 21, 2022 · Conscious competence. After dedicating yourself to the improvement of a skill through formal training, repeated practice and participation, competence grows and starts to show. At this stage, you have learned and practiced enough to perform a task with a degree of quality and independence.
Jun 24, 2022 · The conscious competence learning model helps us to understand the journey we go through when we learn something new. It is sometimes known as the conscious competence ladder or the conscious competence matrix.
