50 Facts About Me - My Capabilities (as at 16 February 2020)

Writing this on 16 February 2020, I am in Week 6 of my 6th WOL Circle. The main exercise this week is “50 Facts About Me”. In my 2nd circle back in Q4 2017, I did this exercise and my 50 then are still valid now per this blog post.

In my current circle I decided to do a variant of this and I have listed 50-ish of my capabilities. This was a review, a merger and collation of multiple lists of capabilities etc that I produced as I read and applied Liz Ryan’s Reinvention Roadmap in Q4 2018. The list is the result of a single pass of consolidating those lists. As it happens, I got to a list of 64 and I decided not to rationalise the list down to 50.

The other reason for doing this variant of the exercise is that it relates to my goal in the circle as I review my life and career for my next steps.

As always I am happy to take any comments, questions and feedback on this list.

Simon’s List of “50”-ish of His Capabilities

1. Recruiting and facilitating learning and other project groups IRL/virtually including WOL Circles
2. How to use Zoom/Skype for video conferencing
3. Community management and contributing community member including how to set Workplace by Facebook and Slack up for different use cases
4. How to invite people virtually to collaborate with me
5. Content sourcing, creation and publishing in Workplace, LinkedIn, blog, Twitter etc
6. Facilitating IRL/virtual book clubs including devising application-related questions
7. Understanding what fills and depletes my mojo tank (my life force)
8. Hosting, participating in and curating Twitter Chats in Wakelet
9. Aware of OKRs
10. Conversationalist including with complete strangers IRL/virtually
11. Deep worker
12. Team set-up, membership, leadership, management, facilitation and closure IRL/virtually within my organisation and across organisations
13. Being spontaneous and fearless (Mel Robbins’ 5-Second Rule)
14. Learning and researching new things proactively/reactively on my own and with other people IRL/virtually
15. Picking films etc and leading discussions on them
16. Producing events on a theme with publicly-available multi-media components
17. Structuring things where there is no structure
18. Planning things from vague ideas
19. Identifying tangible/intangible products that need to be delivered by work packages and projects and operational day-job
20. Developing digital skills in myself and others
21. Collaborating with customers, suppliers and internal staff
22. Sharing resources
23. Asking questions
24. Listening carefully
25. Building and assembling digital platforms that can be used by me and others
26. Being involved in things at the start to help things start on a sound foundation
27. Understanding problems that need solutions
28. Note taking and actions recording from meetings
29. Connecting and building relationships with all kinds of people
30. Managing projects and programmes
31. Business change including changing how I and others work
32. Knowledge of and ability to talk and ask about any organisation and sector to understand problems, opportunities
33. SWOT analysis
34. Seeing the big picture and the minute detai at the same time
35. Edward de Bono’s 6 Thinking Hats
36. Use of MS Office tools - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, One Note
37. Use of content creation, sharing and curation tools - Workplace, Slack, Trello, Jira, Evernote, Pocket, Pinterest, Instagram, Blogger, Tweetdeck, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook
38. Life and career design (Designing Your Life (Dave Evans, Bill Burnett), Reinvention Roadmap (Liz Ryan))
39. Podcast sourcing and playing (audio/video)
40. Video recording of content
41. Appropriate use of comms channels including email, ESNs, IMs etc
42. Driving to a conclusion
43. Reflection for personal development
44. PKM – personal knowledge management
45. Changing how I/we/people work
46. Service design, implementation and management
47. Account (relationship) management including startup, management and closure
48. Communication in all forms (#ClearTheFog)
49. Leadership and development of other leaders
50. Collaborating with others#
51. Connecting people
52. Working Out Loud / Show Your Work
53. Business analysis - data and process
54. Knowledge management
55. Coaching / mentoring
56. Training
57. Why, What, When, Where, Who, How analysis
58. “Event”/”meeting” planning and delivery including facilitation
59. Relentless curiosity and fascination with new (to me) things …. rabbit trail-er
60. Applying knowledge and resources from different contexts to the current context for me and for others
61. Root cause problem identification and solution determination
62. Problem ownership
63. New product/service launching
64. Consultancy