Feedback like that is better than winning the lottery! I’m very OK with that. It wasn’t the ‘ball-ache’ I was expecting”. The “Dad, why don’t you just buy a new one?” son sort of complemented me… “fair play, that’s not too bad Dad.The poly-tunnel is still standing after the recent storm with 48 mph winds, and.How do I know? Two critical performance measures I need to point out that things worked out fine with the Trampoline to Poly-tunnel project. I think I need to to use it in other circumstances… It’s bizarre how a few simple words smooth away so such angst and uncertainty. The ‘soothing balm’ that covers up my Pseudo Competence just happens to be MVP. They foolishly believe I know what I’m doing. Me saying “we are approaching this through a series of ‘safe to fail’ experiments” or its all about “trial and error” just doesn’t help the situation. In the ‘hot house’ of gardening round our place there are certain phrases that don’t go down well with my co-workers, my wife or the”Dad, why don’t you just buy a new one!!” son. What’s this got to do with Trampolines and Soothing Balm? Glad you asked. Graphic by Greg Holt With kind permission, Thanks Greg. I won’t make them any more competent, but it might help you think about coping strategies… You’re welcome! You’ll notice is that I’ve created this as a handy ‘print out and keep’ version, with a column for you to insert those people in you life that my not be ‘fully competent’. It’s a big subject area and I’ve just scratched the surface. I’ve taken the liberty of condensing some of the most commonly described examples of ‘competency issues’ into the table below. I’m not going to dwell on pseudo-competence other than to say, there’s a lot of it about (it’s not just me), and it has some close cousins. If you can’t wait, this post on the value of apprenticeships (Learn the Rules Like a Pro, So you can break them like an Artist) gives a clue about where I’m coming from. If they aren’t comfortable with that situation, what does this mean for their state of mind? Interestingly, someone who had experience of this situation described its as, “standing on the edge of the abyss… knowing that you don’t know what to do, but people expecting you to know, because of your job title…”. What does this means for people who’ve been promoted rapidly or ‘fast tracked’ in an organisation? If they haven’t had time to ‘learn the ropes’ and develop ‘deep competence’ are they automatically in the zone of ‘Pseudo Competence’. Learning about Pseudo Competence came from a discussion about how organisations (and people) respond to failure. Basically its a description of the situation where someone has reached a position where they lack the competence to perform a task or do a job, and they fake it. However, it has led to me developing a way of behaving that I recently learned is called ‘Pseudo Competence’. Based on my track record, I’ve no idea why she thinks this way. Oddly, my wife has complete confidence in my ability to do lots things. The picture above illustrates my most recent ‘messy adventure into uncertainty’. Its around the ‘bits in the middle’ where things can be a bit ‘messy’. I’ll be aware of the danger zones at the edges, and generally have plenty of enthusiasm to keep things moving forward. I’ve usually got a rough sense of the direction where things are headed. I don’t know precisely how things are going to end up. Quite a lot of the time I don’t have a clue what I’m doing. Me & my “Dad, why don’t you just buy a new one?” son. More of a ‘trial & error’, ‘make it up as you go along’ approach to building a Poly-tunnel from recycled trampoline frames.
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