Give a skill goal supported practice
Whena development conversation reaches a skill goal
Choose one useful skill with the employee. Give it a real task, protected capacity and an available coach. Review the attempt together; use what they learned to choose the next opportunity.
- Make it easier
- Use a small, low-risk task you can coach yourself; defer unfamiliar high-risk work until qualified help is available.
- Progression
- Expand responsibility only when the employee, support and work demands are ready.
Start tiny
Ask which skill they want to practise.
GitLab Handbook, Effective Delegation. Read the source ↗ Supported practice and training opportunities inform this employee development loop. Editorial method; leadership-training research does not establish effects for arbitrary employee skills or this schedule.
Mastery: Inspect your work, apply a specific correction in later practice and check whether it helped.



