Hello Waggle Community!

Welcome to July, hopefully, it’s a sunny one! In today’s fast-paced business environment, competency is key. This month we dive into the significance of building and enhancing competency within teams. Waggle gives you the tools and insights to identify your strengths and areas for growth, supporting leaders and managers in fostering a more effective and cohesive team.

Join us as we explore Rob Bier’s take on Martin Broadwell’s Four Stages of Competence, the new updates to Waggle, and 11 essential skills for managers.

⭐️ Focus: Increasing Competence

Increasing competency is vital for managers to lead and inspire their teams effectively. Martin Broadwell’s Four Stages of Competence model provides a framework for understanding this progression.

⚡️ Unconscious Incompetence: you’re doing it poorly but don’t realize it.

⚡️ Conscious Incompetence: you’re aware that you’re doing it poorly.

⚡️ Conscious Competence: you can do it well when you focus on it, but it doesn’t come naturally.

⚡️ Unconscious Competence: you do it well without having to think about it.

By navigating these stages, managers can enhance their skill set while fostering an environment of continuous improvement, ultimately leading to organizational success.

🔐Unlocking Unconscious Competence

Rob Bier, one of our advisors, highlights Martin Broadwell's four stages of competence in his book Smooth Scaling. Inspired by this, we’ve analyzed how Waggle supports each stage of skill development:

You don’t know what you don’t know.
Waggle shines a light on your blind spots, helping you become aware of them.

You recognize areas needing improvement.
Waggle delivers data-driven insights to guide your growth.

You can perform tasks well with focus.
Waggle offers specific exercises to help you deliberately build your skills.

Excellence becomes second nature.
Waggle's rituals solidify behaviours, making them automatic over time.

🔔 What is new on the app

👀Identify Blind Spots 

Waggle creates awareness, helping you identify blind spots. You don’t know what you don’t know. Waggle is here to tell you. All of this information can be found on your “Skills” dashboard.

🎯Targeted Skill Development Exercises 

Waggle offers targeted exercises to intentionally build your skills. Waggle can make excellence second nature for your team.

💡Data-Driven Insights 

With Waggle, you get access to insights derived from data. They provide information on areas of growth. Waggle is here to tell you what you need to improve.

🔗 Essential Reads from Our Blog

11 Essential Soft Skills For Managers and How to Build Them

When you become a manager, you need to develop an entirely new skill set. These are soft skills, from conflict resolution to delegation, all good managers have them.

We have listed the key soft skills for managers we know to be beneficial when leading a team - proving your worth to the company and leading your team effectively.

🤝 Invitation: Manager’s Hive Round Table

Embracing Vulnerability: the path to authentic leadership

🗓 July 24th, 2024

⏰ 9:00 - 10:00 AM BST

💻 Virtual

This month, as part of our manager’s hive series, on July 24th we will be hosting a virtual round-table. Authentic leadership requires that one embrace vulnerability as a strength rather than a weakness. Managers delve into how vulnerability can build trust, foster psychological safety, and cultivate a culture of open communication

To join the event, please use the link below to register

Warm regards,

Sarah Touzani

Co-founder, Waggle

P.S. We love hearing from you! Share your feedback on this newsletter and let us know how you enhance competence in your own teams.