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DELIBERATE-PRACTICE5 MIN READ

Name the One Rep

Define a narrow, repeatable practice rep from a broad workplace skill goal.

The move: reduce the skill until feedback has somewhere to land. A broad development goal feels motivating because it points in a good direction. It is also hard to practice because it hides the behavior that needs to change. Deliberate practice asks for a smaller unit: the rep. A rep is a repeatable attempt at one edge of the skill, performed under enough real pressure to matter. Use this four-part test: one skill edge, one observable behavior, one real context, and one feedback source. "Improve facilitation" becomes "pause after asking a decision question and wait five seconds before adding my…

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