Personal Skill Development

Part 5: Actions

Personal Skill Development

Purpose: To implement practical, focused steps that address your most important performance gaps.

Once you’ve identified the most important gaps, it’s time to create and execute a plan to close them.

View the setup and ongoing use sections to learn more and how to implement.

Setup: How to Develop and Implement Actions

Once you’ve identified the most important gaps, it’s time to create and execute a plan to close them.

Work with your coach to design 2–3 concrete actions that directly target your chosen performance gap. Each action should be simple, realistic, and time-bound.

Where possible, build in regular repetition. Improvement often comes through consistent, focused practice, not one-off effort.

Set dates for completing each action, and share these with your coach or accountability partner.

Just like your vision, your actions should be visible — in a notebook, app, or stuck to your wall.

Ongoing Use: How to Keep Acting and Adapting

At the end of each improvement cycle, ask: “Did I complete the actions?” and “Did they work?”

If something didn’t have the impact you expected, modify it — or replace it with a more effective step in the next cycle.

Acknowledge when actions lead to real improvement. This builds momentum and keeps motivation high.

Always understand how today’s actions connect to your ultimate vision. This reinforces purpose and keeps efforts aligned.