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Run the Learn, Do, Teach apprentice model – study the canonical material, execute the task under review, then teach it – so skills compound into team capacity instead of staying with one expert.
Category: Strategy & Measurement
Use this when onboarding an apprentice, VA, or new team member to any Task Library skill – or when you've "done" something for months but never proven mastery by teaching it.
Inputs
- The target skill, with its definitive article and skill.md from the Task Library
- A real project to practice on (never train on hypotheticals)
- A senior reviewer who already owns the skill, and a future learner to teach
Steps
- Define the model: Learn (absorb the canonical material), Do (execute on real work under review), Teach (transfer it to the next person). You haven't mastered a skill until you've taught it and your student succeeded.
- Learn: read the skill's definitive article and skill.md, and study the linked examples/meta-articles. Write down questions; unanswered ones are documentation gaps to flag.
- Do: run the skill.md on a real project. The senior reviewer checks output against the Definition-of-done checklist at the 10% draft stage and at completion (Management triangle cadence).
- Repeat the Do stage until runs pass QA without correction – consecutive clean runs, not one lucky one.
- Teach: train the next apprentice using the same materials, and document your run as a meta-article so the teaching becomes a public, linkable example.
- Promote: the teacher now owns review duty for that skill, freeing the senior to climb to higher-leverage work – this is how delegation compounds.
- Measure it: track each person's skills by stage (Learn/Do/Teach), QA pass rate, and number of meta-articles produced; review movement quarterly.
Definition of done (QA checklist)
- Learner consumed the definitive article, skill.md, and linked examples
- At least two consecutive real runs passed the skill's Definition-of-done without correction
- Learner taught the skill to a next person who then passed QA
- A meta-article documents the run and links back to the hub
- Skill-stage roster (who is at Learn/Do/Teach per skill) updated
- Linked back to the definitive article and relevant siblings
- Complies with Blog Posting Guidelines (if it publishes content)
Example(s)
- Example needed – run the Meta-Article Prompt after first real run. (The hub at /nine-triangles links live examples; pull the closest match into this slot.)
File in the zip: skills/strategy-measurement/learn-do-teach-apprentice-model.md. Download the Task Library zip.
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