Conscious Competence Ladder – Stage of Newbie to Pro

The model focusses on the interplay between awareness and competence and identifies 4 clear stages:

Unconsciously incompetent – we don’t know that we don’t have this skill, or that we need to learn it.

Consciously incompetent – we know that we don’t have this skill.

Consciously competent – we know that we have this skill.

Unconsciously competent – we don’t know that we have this skill (it just seems easy).