New focus for 2024

Amping up your common sense skills

Hello Amped Community!

I am sorry for being absent the last few months. BUT I am back!

I am changing the focus of Amped slightly…the themes of the content I write won’t change but the audience focus becomes a tad bigger. Independent consultants fit into this “bucket”…My focus is to write for tech professionals involved in developing, managing, and delivering tech projects and programs.

While I initially had themes of independent consulting, program management and a minor sprinkle of product into my posts, realistically my vision for Amped (and previously TeachIt) was to upskill people in their use of common sense skills and applying that to their everyday work. Our dependency on tech is that we have forgotten about how to use common sense effectively. This is further exasperated by our desire for instant results, taking shortcuts and reactive decision-making. What was common is uncommon. Maybe they never were common…just a bad assumption on our part.

Here are the 15 common sense skills that I believe people need to really thrive at work (and will be the focus of Amped moving forward):

1. Critical Thinking

2. Problem-Solving

3. Planning and Execution

4. Financial Literacy in tech projects and programs

5. Communicating with intent

6. Adaptability

7. Emotional Intelligence

8. Decision Making

9. Conflict Resolution

10. Situational Awareness

11. Resilience

12. Teamwork and Collaboration

13. Personal Health

14. Tech Chops

15. Self-Awareness

The benefit is that I have written about some of these topics and will continue to do so in future posts.

Content will start to flow in the coming weeks; including re-releasing some content with updated insights.

I look forward to your comments and feedback.

Thanks for reading and your support!