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Skills & Frameworks

Scientific Reasoning: The Skill That Stops You Defending Your First Good Idea

Scientific reasoning is the ability to hold your own conclusions as hypotheses rather than positions. It is one of the five i2 skill clusters and the one people most often assume they already have. The point is not being right more often. It is being wrong more cheaply, while the cost of the correction is still small.

4 Aug 2026 6 min read

Research & Evidence

How to Tell Whether a Skills Claim Is Backed by Anything

You do not need to evaluate a study properly to judge whether a skills claim is credible. Five questions expose most weak ones: what was measured and by whom, compared with what, how long afterwards, who dropped out, and who funded it. Most impressive figures fail on the first two.

4 Aug 2026 6 min read

After a mistake, do you tend to…

Something you tried didn’t work. What is your natural response?

Moving on shows resilience. Reflecting shows wisdom. But here's the thing: without reflection, you're likely to repeat the same mistake faster. The most adaptive people move on — but only after they've extracted the lesson.

5 people have answered

Learning & Development

The Line Manager Is the Variable Your Programme Design Keeps Ignoring

Whether training sticks depends mostly on what happens in the weeks afterwards, and the line manager controls that environment. Most designs treat manager support as an information problem and send a briefing email. It is a workload and accountability problem. Give managers a specific task with a deadline, not a request to be supportive.

4 Aug 2026 5 min read

Leadership & Teams

Your Team Keeps Reopening the Same Decision. Here Is Why.

Teams that keep revisiting the same decision are rarely being obstructive. Something in the original decision was never closed: no named owner, no actual commitment, incompatible interpretations, or an objection that was acknowledged but never answered. Each version needs a different fix, which is why generic decision frameworks disappoint.

4 Aug 2026 6 min read

One skill, one question

What Problem Are You Not Seeing?

“When was the last time you looked for a problem worth solving — instead of waiting for one to land on your desk?”

— Opportunity Seeking Skills

Opportunity Seeking Skills

Higher Education

When AI Can Write the Essay, What Are You Actually Assessing?

The essay was never valued for itself. It was indirect evidence of thinking, and that inference has quietly stopped being valid. Detection and invigilation are losing responses. The workable direction is to move assessment closer to the process and to say clearly, per task, what use of AI is expected.

4 Aug 2026 6 min read

Future of Work

Who Trains the Juniors Now That AI Does the Junior Work?

AI is doing the work that used to train people. The apprenticeship model is dissolving one delegated task at a time, and the cost arrives years after the headcount decision that caused it. The fix is not restricting the tools. It is changing what managers ask for and what they inspect.

4 Aug 2026 6 min read

One skill, one question

Who Disagrees With Your Hypothesis?

“Have you actively sought out the person most likely to challenge your thinking — or have you only shared your idea with people who’ll say yes?”

— Scientific Reasoning Skills

Scientific Reasoning Skills

Future of Work

Outputs vs. Outcomes

When AI can produce anything, the only thing that matters is what you do with it. The Direction of Travel AI doesn’t hallucinate the way it did two years ago. It won’t hallucinate the way…

11 Jun 2026 1 min read

Future of Work

AI Brain Fry and Shadow AI: Why Human-AI Collaboration Is the Skill Set Nobody Is Training For

AI brain fry and shadow AI are two sides of the same problem: organisations have rolled out AI faster than they have built the human capability to use it well. The real work is not about better tools or tighter policies. It is about developing the meta skills that enable healthy, productive collaboration with AI.

13 Apr 2026 7 min read

When brainstorming, do you prefer to…

Your team needs fresh ideas for a big challenge. What would you rather do?

Research actually favours solo-then-group: individuals generate more diverse ideas independently before combining them. But group energy sparks connections solo thinking misses. The best process? Both — in that order.

5 people have answered

Skills & Frameworks

Reflection Skills: The Quiet Capability That Makes Everything Else Work Better

Reflection is the skill most people overlook and the one that makes every other capability work better. It is the ability to step back, notice your own patterns, and learn from experience in a way that actually changes what you do next. Research shows it is the strongest predictor of growth across all innovation skills.

9 Apr 2026 7 min read

i2 Insights

Test your innovation skills

Scientific Reasoning: The Skill That Stops You Defending Your First Good Idea

How to Tell Whether a Skills Claim Is Backed by Anything

After a mistake, do you tend to…

The Line Manager Is the Variable Your Programme Design Keeps Ignoring

Your Team Keeps Reopening the Same Decision. Here Is Why.

What Problem Are You Not Seeing?

When AI Can Write the Essay, What Are You Actually Assessing?

Who Trains the Juniors Now That AI Does the Junior Work?

Who Disagrees With Your Hypothesis?

Outputs vs. Outcomes

AI Brain Fry and Shadow AI: Why Human-AI Collaboration Is the Skill Set Nobody Is Training For

When brainstorming, do you prefer to…

Reflection Skills: The Quiet Capability That Makes Everything Else Work Better