When your work is fluid, many assume it’s vibes: charisma, intuition, personality. It becomes ‘like magic’ – meaning, there seems to be no clear, shared capacity to describe what is done, nor understanding of the relationship between what is done, and what is achieved.
Our first initiative, when developing Shapeshifters Group, was to look at what shapeshifters actually do. By observing, interviewing, and reflecting on lived practice, we articulated this subtle work into seven core areas of competency, blending skills, mindsets, and aptitudes:
You can explore the extended (beta) version of this model in our Shapeshifter Competency Framework. These competencies, blending skillets, mindsets and inner aptitudes, form the foundation of a profession-in-the-making. They are the what of shapeshifter practice.
We developed an interactive profiling tool, intended as a mirror for shapeshifters. This is an opportunity to test yourself against the framework, and see your work reflected to you in a way that, hopefully, corresponds to a shapeshifting approach.
The test is available in beta version here - use the password ‘shapeshifter’.