Readiness Module — a guide for employees
Your company knows what it needs. Now you'll know exactly what's expected of you.
Readiness is how your organization defines what good work looks like for every responsibility you hold — and how it recognizes you once you can do it. Here's what's measured, who decides, and what you'll see when you sign in.
See what you'll find insideWhat Readiness is
Not what you were taught. What you can do.
Readiness is the state where you can perform your responsibilities independently, consistently, and to the required standard — without supervision and without guesswork.
Clarity
You know exactly what's expected. Not a job title — the specific responsibilities you hold, and the published standard each one is judged against.
Capability
You have the knowledge and the practical ability to deliver, and someone who knows the work has watched you do it.
Consistency
You do it reliably — applying knowledge and ability through steady behavior over time, not on one good day.
Training records what you sat through. Readiness records what you can actually do.
The four building blocks
How the work is structured for clarity.
Position
The seat you occupy in the organization. A Position describes the Roles — and therefore the Responsibilities — that whoever occupies it should have. You are assigned to a Position.
Role
A named collection of Responsibilities that belong together. One Role can be attached to many Positions, so it gets defined once and reused across the company.
Responsibility
A single thing you're accountable for. This is the unit Readiness is measured on — you hold a badge per Responsibility, never one badge overall.
Checkpoint
One observable item a Coach checks during an inspection — marked Passed, Failed, or Not Applicable. A checkpoint can carry a short video or a quiz so you can prepare for it.
The Inspection Protocol
The full set of Checkpoints for a Responsibility — the exact standard a Coach inspects you against. It's written and maintained by that Responsibility's Master, and you're meant to read it before you're inspected. There are no hidden criteria: what's in the Protocol is what gets checked.
Levels and badges
Five badges. One ladder. Every responsibility.
Readiness runs from 0% to 150%, and your percentage on each Responsibility comes from the badge you hold for it. The scale passes 100% because doing the work yourself is genuinely different from teaching it or defining it for everyone else.
Developing
You're still learning, and you need support to get the work done.
Competent
You can do the work, with growing independence as you approach 100%.
Expert
You can coach others on the work, or define the standard for it.
Badges belong to responsibilities, not to people
The same person can be a Master on one Responsibility, a Professional on another, and an Apprentice on a third. Coach and Master are badge levels for specific work — they are not job titles.
Most people stop at Professional. Coach and Master are for those who will train and certify others.
A badge can change standing
Only a badge in good standing counts toward your Readiness. If the Master updates the Inspection Protocol and you now have outstanding checkpoints, your badge is marked Obsolete — still valid, but on a grace period.
- You're emailed when a badge goes Obsolete, and reminded before the deadline.
- Clear the outstanding checkpoints and it's restored automatically overnight — no new inspection.
- Let the grace period run out and the badge expires; that Responsibility drops to 0% until you're re-inspected.
The badge ladder.
Who grants badges
Not your manager. Not the software.
Badges come from people who have themselves been certified on the specific Responsibility they're inspecting. That's what keeps the standard identical across the organization.
Your Coach
Inspects you against the Inspection Protocol and issues your Apprentice and Professional badges, evaluating knowledge, abilities and behavior checkpoint by checkpoint. Each Responsibility has its own Coach, so you may have several different ones.
The Master
Writes and maintains the Inspection Protocol, the short videos and knowledge articles, and the quizzes. The Master trains and certifies new Coaches — and can inspect you directly as well.
The Organizational Readiness Manager
Designates who becomes a Master — that badge is appointed, not earned through inspection. The ORM can also remove a badge, and must record a reason that you can see in your own badge history.
Awarded, or given
Where a Responsibility has an Inspection Protocol, your Coach awards the badge by working through it checkpoint by checkpoint. That's the preferred route — objective, repeatable, the same for everyone.
Where no Protocol exists yet, a Coach can give a badge on judgment alone. If a Master later writes a Protocol, those given badges are reset so every active badge reflects the same formal standard.
You decide when you're ready
Nobody schedules an inspection for you. Once you've studied the material, taken the quizzes and read the Protocol, you go to your Coach and ask to be inspected.
An inspection that doesn't produce the badge you hoped for isn't a mark against you — it identifies the specific checkpoints to work on next.
How it changes your work
Measurement replaces opinion.
Being measured gets read as being watched. In practice it works the other way round — it swaps someone's impression of you for a published standard, and hands you the material and the initiative to meet it.
You know what's expected
Instead of a job description that says what you're responsible for, you get your list of Responsibilities and, for each one, the checkpoints you'll be inspected against. The list is ordered by how much each Responsibility matters to the work, so it's obvious where to start.
The learning comes in small pieces
Each Responsibility carries institutional knowledge kept by its Master — short videos and brief knowledge articles, not a course. Quizzes let you test yourself privately and find out whether it stuck, before anyone else is involved.
You ask for the inspection
Progress is something you start. When you feel prepared, you approach your Coach and request an inspection. The pace stays in your hands instead of waiting on an annual review cycle.
The whole company's responsibilities are visible
The directories are open to you: who holds which Position, how Positions report to each other, and what Responsibilities each one carries. If you've ever wondered who owns a piece of work, you can look it up instead of asking around.
What's in it for you
What you get out of it.
Readiness serves the organization — that part is obvious. Here's the half that belongs to you.
You can prepare for a promotion
Every Position publishes the Roles and Responsibilities it requires. Open the one you want, compare it against the badges you already hold, and you have a precise list of what to close — months before the conversation, instead of hoping the right person notices you.
You get ideas for what to learn next
The Responsibilities catalog is the whole company's work in one list. Browse it and you'll find capabilities you didn't know existed here — and the Master who owns each one, if you want to ask about it.
Your competence is on the record
A badge is issued by a certified Coach against a published standard, and it stays on your record. What you can do stops depending on whether your manager remembers it, or is still here to remember it.
Feedback is specific enough to act on
An inspection doesn't hand you a rating out of five. It tells you which checkpoints you passed and which you didn't — so what to work on next is a short, concrete list rather than a vague impression to interpret.
You can grow without becoming a manager
Coach at 125% and Master at 150% sit above Professional. You can advance by going deeper into the work and developing other people in it, rather than by moving away from the work you're good at.
You set the pace
You decide when you're prepared and you ask for the inspection. Your progress isn't held to an annual review cycle, and it doesn't wait on someone else's calendar.
Your first week
Everything that's yours sits in one menu.
You'll get an email invitation. Once you accept it and sign in, almost everything personal to you lives under Your Stuff. Some entries only appear if they apply to you — you won't see the Coach view until you hold a Coach badge.
Start here. Your Readiness percentage, your Responsibilities laid out as a path to readiness, and the badge you hold on each one. This is also where you open a checkpoint to watch its video, read the article or take the quiz — and where you'll see which checkpoints are outstanding if a badge has gone Obsolete.
Anything assigned to you that needs an action — for example uploading a short video of a task so a Coach can review it. Worth checking every time you sign in.
The organization, browsable. Employees, Positions shown as an org chart of who reports to whom, and the Responsibilities catalog. Read-only — nothing you do here changes anything.
The employees you're authorized to inspect, and where you record inspection verdicts against a Responsibility's checkpoints and issue badges.
Where you maintain the institutional knowledge for your Responsibilities — videos, articles, quizzes and the Inspection Protocol — and certify new Coaches.
The Roles you're accountable for, and the Responsibilities attached to them.
Accept the invitation and sign in
The invitation goes to your work email. Until you accept it, nothing is visible to you — and your name shows as pending to whoever set up your access.
Read your Responsibilities before anything else
Open Your Stuff → As Employee and work down the list from the top. It's ordered by how much each Responsibility affects your Readiness, so the first ones are the ones that matter most.
Open a checkpoint and study
Watch the short videos, read the knowledge articles, then take the quiz to see what stuck. Nobody is scored on quiz attempts — they're yours.
Read the Inspection Protocol
It's the exact list your Coach will work through. If something in it is unclear, that's a question for your Coach or the Master before the inspection, not after.
Ask your Coach for an inspection
When you're prepared, request it. Then repeat — responsibility by responsibility, badge by badge.
Questions people ask first
Common questions.
Is my Readiness score visible to other people?
Your Readiness is part of how the organization understands its own capability, so it rolls up into Position, Department and organization-wide figures visible to the people running Readiness. Your Coach for a Responsibility sees your standing on that Responsibility.
Why is my percentage lower than I expected?
Responsibilities aren't weighted equally. Each carries an importance level, so a low badge on a very important Responsibility pulls your score down far more than the same badge on a minor one. Sort your list by importance and start at the top — that's also the fastest way to move the number.
Can I skip Apprentice and go straight to Professional?
Yes. If your Coach determines at the first inspection that you can work without supervision, they can issue Professional as your first badge. There's no requirement to pass through Apprentice.
I have more badges than responsibilities. Why?
A badge stays on your record once earned, even if you later move to a different Position. Your Readiness score, though, only counts badges on Responsibilities you're currently assigned to — so your badge history and your current score can tell different stories.
What if I don't feel ready for an inspection?
Then don't request one. The timing is yours. Use the videos, articles and quizzes until the material is familiar, and talk to your Coach about what's still unclear — coaching before inspection is the whole point of the role.
How do I become a Coach or a Master?
Coach: hold Professional on the Responsibility, then ask the Master to train and certify you. Master: talk to your Organizational Readiness Manager. It's an appointment, and it comes with the commitment to write and maintain that Responsibility's knowledge base and Inspection Protocol.
One badge at a time is the whole method.
Nobody is expected to be Professional on everything from day one. Take the Responsibility that carries the most weight, study it, get inspected, and move to the next.
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Your company knows what it needs. Now you'll know exactly what's expected of you.
Readiness is how your organization defines what good work looks like for every responsibility you hold — and how it recognizes you once you can do it. Here's what's measured, who decides, and what you'll see when you sign in.
See what you'll find insideWhat Readiness is
Not what you were taught. What you can do.
Readiness is the state where you can perform your responsibilities independently, consistently, and to the required standard — without supervision and without guesswork.
Clarity
You know exactly what's expected. Not a job title — the specific responsibilities you hold, and the published standard each one is judged against.
Capability
You have the knowledge and the practical ability to deliver, and someone who knows the work has watched you do it.
Consistency
You do it reliably — applying knowledge and ability through steady behavior over time, not on one good day.
Training records what you sat through. Readiness records what you can actually do.
The four building blocks
How the work is structured for clarity.
Position
The seat you occupy in the organization. A Position describes the Roles — and therefore the Responsibilities — that whoever occupies it should have. You are assigned to a Position.
Role
A named collection of Responsibilities that belong together. One Role can be attached to many Positions, so it gets defined once and reused across the company.
Responsibility
A single thing you're accountable for. This is the unit Readiness is measured on — you hold a badge per Responsibility, never one badge overall.
Checkpoint
One observable item a Coach checks during an inspection — marked Passed, Failed, or Not Applicable. A checkpoint can carry a short video or a quiz so you can prepare for it.
The Inspection Protocol
The full set of Checkpoints for a Responsibility — the exact standard a Coach inspects you against. It's written and maintained by that Responsibility's Master, and you're meant to read it before you're inspected. There are no hidden criteria: what's in the Protocol is what gets checked.
Levels and badges
Five badges. One ladder. Every responsibility.
Readiness runs from 0% to 150%, and your percentage on each Responsibility comes from the badge you hold for it. The scale passes 100% because doing the work yourself is genuinely different from teaching it or defining it for everyone else.
Developing
You're still learning, and you need support to get the work done.
Competent
You can do the work, with growing independence as you approach 100%.
Expert
You can coach others on the work, or define the standard for it.
Badges belong to responsibilities, not to people
The same person can be a Master on one Responsibility, a Professional on another, and an Apprentice on a third. Coach and Master are badge levels for specific work — they are not job titles.
Most people stop at Professional. Coach and Master are for those who will train and certify others.
A badge can change standing
Only a badge in good standing counts toward your Readiness. If the Master updates the Inspection Protocol and you now have outstanding checkpoints, your badge is marked Obsolete — still valid, but on a grace period.
- You're emailed when a badge goes Obsolete, and reminded before the deadline.
- Clear the outstanding checkpoints and it's restored automatically overnight — no new inspection.
- Let the grace period run out and the badge expires; that Responsibility drops to 0% until you're re-inspected.
The badge ladder.
Who grants badges
Not your manager. Not the software.
Badges come from people who have themselves been certified on the specific Responsibility they're inspecting. That's what keeps the standard identical across the organization.
Your Coach
Inspects you against the Inspection Protocol and issues your Apprentice and Professional badges, evaluating knowledge, abilities and behavior checkpoint by checkpoint. Each Responsibility has its own Coach, so you may have several different ones.
The Master
Writes and maintains the Inspection Protocol, the short videos and knowledge articles, and the quizzes. The Master trains and certifies new Coaches — and can inspect you directly as well.
The Organizational Readiness Manager
Designates who becomes a Master — that badge is appointed, not earned through inspection. The ORM can also remove a badge, and must record a reason that you can see in your own badge history.
Awarded, or given
Where a Responsibility has an Inspection Protocol, your Coach awards the badge by working through it checkpoint by checkpoint. That's the preferred route — objective, repeatable, the same for everyone.
Where no Protocol exists yet, a Coach can give a badge on judgment alone. If a Master later writes a Protocol, those given badges are reset so every active badge reflects the same formal standard.
You decide when you're ready
Nobody schedules an inspection for you. Once you've studied the material, taken the quizzes and read the Protocol, you go to your Coach and ask to be inspected.
An inspection that doesn't produce the badge you hoped for isn't a mark against you — it identifies the specific checkpoints to work on next.
How it changes your work
Measurement replaces opinion.
Being measured gets read as being watched. In practice it works the other way round — it swaps someone's impression of you for a published standard, and hands you the material and the initiative to meet it.
You know what's expected
Instead of a job description that says what you're responsible for, you get your list of Responsibilities and, for each one, the checkpoints you'll be inspected against. The list is ordered by how much each Responsibility matters to the work, so it's obvious where to start.
The learning comes in small pieces
Each Responsibility carries institutional knowledge kept by its Master — short videos and brief knowledge articles, not a course. Quizzes let you test yourself privately and find out whether it stuck, before anyone else is involved.
You ask for the inspection
Progress is something you start. When you feel prepared, you approach your Coach and request an inspection. The pace stays in your hands instead of waiting on an annual review cycle.
The whole company's responsibilities are visible
The directories are open to you: who holds which Position, how Positions report to each other, and what Responsibilities each one carries. If you've ever wondered who owns a piece of work, you can look it up instead of asking around.
What's in it for you
What you get out of it.
Readiness serves the organization — that part is obvious. Here's the half that belongs to you.
You can prepare for a promotion
Every Position publishes the Roles and Responsibilities it requires. Open the one you want, compare it against the badges you already hold, and you have a precise list of what to close — months before the conversation, instead of hoping the right person notices you.
You get ideas for what to learn next
The Responsibilities catalog is the whole company's work in one list. Browse it and you'll find capabilities you didn't know existed here — and the Master who owns each one, if you want to ask about it.
Your competence is on the record
A badge is issued by a certified Coach against a published standard, and it stays on your record. What you can do stops depending on whether your manager remembers it, or is still here to remember it.
Feedback is specific enough to act on
An inspection doesn't hand you a rating out of five. It tells you which checkpoints you passed and which you didn't — so what to work on next is a short, concrete list rather than a vague impression to interpret.
You can grow without becoming a manager
Coach at 125% and Master at 150% sit above Professional. You can advance by going deeper into the work and developing other people in it, rather than by moving away from the work you're good at.
You set the pace
You decide when you're prepared and you ask for the inspection. Your progress isn't held to an annual review cycle, and it doesn't wait on someone else's calendar.
Your first week
Everything that's yours sits in one menu.
You'll get an email invitation. Once you accept it and sign in, almost everything personal to you lives under Your Stuff. Some entries only appear if they apply to you — you won't see the Coach view until you hold a Coach badge.
Start here. Your Readiness percentage, your Responsibilities laid out as a path to readiness, and the badge you hold on each one. This is also where you open a checkpoint to watch its video, read the article or take the quiz — and where you'll see which checkpoints are outstanding if a badge has gone Obsolete.
Anything assigned to you that needs an action — for example uploading a short video of a task so a Coach can review it. Worth checking every time you sign in.
The organization, browsable. Employees, Positions shown as an org chart of who reports to whom, and the Responsibilities catalog. Read-only — nothing you do here changes anything.
The employees you're authorized to inspect, and where you record inspection verdicts against a Responsibility's checkpoints and issue badges.
Where you maintain the institutional knowledge for your Responsibilities — videos, articles, quizzes and the Inspection Protocol — and certify new Coaches.
The Roles you're accountable for, and the Responsibilities attached to them.
Accept the invitation and sign in
The invitation goes to your work email. Until you accept it, nothing is visible to you — and your name shows as pending to whoever set up your access.
Read your Responsibilities before anything else
Open Your Stuff → As Employee and work down the list from the top. It's ordered by how much each Responsibility affects your Readiness, so the first ones are the ones that matter most.
Open a checkpoint and study
Watch the short videos, read the knowledge articles, then take the quiz to see what stuck. Nobody is scored on quiz attempts — they're yours.
Read the Inspection Protocol
It's the exact list your Coach will work through. If something in it is unclear, that's a question for your Coach or the Master before the inspection, not after.
Ask your Coach for an inspection
When you're prepared, request it. Then repeat — responsibility by responsibility, badge by badge.
Questions people ask first
Common questions.
Is my Readiness score visible to other people?
Your Readiness is part of how the organization understands its own capability, so it rolls up into Position, Department and organization-wide figures visible to the people running Readiness. Your Coach for a Responsibility sees your standing on that Responsibility.
Why is my percentage lower than I expected?
Responsibilities aren't weighted equally. Each carries an importance level, so a low badge on a very important Responsibility pulls your score down far more than the same badge on a minor one. Sort your list by importance and start at the top — that's also the fastest way to move the number.
Can I skip Apprentice and go straight to Professional?
Yes. If your Coach determines at the first inspection that you can work without supervision, they can issue Professional as your first badge. There's no requirement to pass through Apprentice.
I have more badges than responsibilities. Why?
A badge stays on your record once earned, even if you later move to a different Position. Your Readiness score, though, only counts badges on Responsibilities you're currently assigned to — so your badge history and your current score can tell different stories.
What if I don't feel ready for an inspection?
Then don't request one. The timing is yours. Use the videos, articles and quizzes until the material is familiar, and talk to your Coach about what's still unclear — coaching before inspection is the whole point of the role.
How do I become a Coach or a Master?
Coach: hold Professional on the Responsibility, then ask the Master to train and certify you. Master: talk to your Organizational Readiness Manager. It's an appointment, and it comes with the commitment to write and maintain that Responsibility's knowledge base and Inspection Protocol.
One badge at a time is the whole method.
Nobody is expected to be Professional on everything from day one. Take the Responsibility that carries the most weight, study it, get inspected, and move to the next.
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