You are applying today. Lesson 18 banked strong transferable skills with evidence. This lesson turns to the ones that still need work, and it runs the SMARTER Goal 1 review you booked in Lesson 5.

A plan with no date is a wish. By the end you will hold two skills, each tied to a dated practice occasion in the next six weeks, plus a keep, adjust, or replace call on Goal 1 with real evidence.

Before you write a development plan, rate six transferable skills on a five-point scale and back each rating with one specific moment (where, when, what happened). Be honest, not modest and not boastful.

Your lowest ratings are the shortlist for the two skills you will lock to dated practice occasions later today. Do not only defend the strengths you banked in Lesson 18.

This is the main production step. Work the three scenario cards first. For each student, read the evidence, choose keep, adjust, or replace, and note what drove the call.

Quick model for Case A: keep is the fair call if the logged count is real; a possible adjust would narrow the setting (for example larger groups only) without throwing away progress.

Then open your own SMARTER Goal 1 from the Strand 1.1 folder and make the same three-way call with the evidence you actually have since the review date you booked in Lesson 5. If you cannot open Goal 1, write the original goal in two lines from memory, note the gap, then still make keep, adjust, or replace with whatever evidence you have.

After that, name two transferable skills that still need work (use your lowest self-audit ratings; do not repeat only Lesson 18 strengths). For each skill, lock a dated practice occasion inside the next six weeks and say what you will notice on the day. Copy the full write-up into your Skills Development Plan document in the Strand 1.1 folder. That document is today's portfolio build: the two dated skill plans plus the Goal 1 keep, adjust, or replace decision with evidence.

You should already have your Skills Development Plan open from Step 3 (two dated skills plus the Goal 1 decision). If Goal 1 was missing, keep the two-line reconstruct and the review call in that document.

Read Sam's skills development plan. Label each marked stretch as a solid commitment, a missing date, vague noticing, or a wish disguised as a plan. Then reveal the model annotation and compare.

Use what you learn to tighten your own Skills Development Plan before you leave: every skill line must carry a real date inside the next six weeks and something you could actually observe on the day.

Today you applied honest judgement to growth, not only to strengths.

• You rated six transferable skills with evidence and shortlisted weaker areas
• You practised keep, adjust, or replace on three evidence-based goal cases
• You completed the SMARTER Goal 1 review booked in Lesson 5
• You chose two transferable skills that need work and locked each to a dated practice occasion in the next six weeks
• You annotated a near-miss development plan and tightened your own Skills Development Plan in Strand 1.1

Bring the dated occasions into the next six weeks for real. A plan you never meet on the calendar is still only a wish.