This is not a manual - it's an outline of one of our skill-sets. These articles merely map or represent some of our skills. A map may be frustrating if you feel lost and you need immediate solutions for pressing problems. However, you can email us and we can talk with you by telephone or online.
 

Expert Modeling Overview . Expert Modeling 1 . Expert Modeling 3 . In-House Training
 

Developing Expertise ... Quickly
 

Our expert modeling provides a rapid and cost-effective performance boost to individual and to organizational productivity. We replicate and accelerate expert competence in many parts of life. While we are known for using these skills in our work with emotions and relationships, it applies as much to organizational development and technological competence.
 

Expert Modeling: Phase 1

1. Identify people with the desired competencies
2. Elicit the vital components of expert behavior
3. Decompose expert behavior into an overall model
4. Decompose the overall expert model into strategies

Neither motivation nor knowledge can ensure competence. Poor performance is more often due to disabling or limiting beliefs, toxic influences, trauma or low quality mentorship than to lack of motivation or knowledge.

These activities provide a knowledge base of heuristics - of apparent behavioral micro-skills (phase 1) that can be analyzed and sequenced into testable models of competence (phase 2). We can then teach these expert models  (phase 3) to selected motivated learners using our accelerated learning and systemic coaching methods (which are other expert models!).

1. Construct basic or provisional models
2. Divide the expert skills into a sequence
3. Approximate relevant unconscious strategies
4. Define the function of each modeled component
5. Develop a hierarchy of essential or critical components

1. Recognize heuristics
2. Identify underlying structural patterns
3. Identify the model's constraints and skill partitions
4. Add all components to the knowledge base

1. Show how components interlock
2. Optimize the systemic components
3. Define the feedback and feed-forward loops
4. Interpret and integrate the critical components
5. Devise methods to control the sequence
6. Codify the interaction between components
7. Discover redundancies and increase reliability
8. Test and refine critical components

1. When does student competence approach mastery?
2. If a model is ineffective, elicit more information

1.  Test and revise the models to meet performance criteria
2.  If training candidates are screened, prepare for phase 3
3.  If candidates are randomly selected, generalize the model