Potential matters—but so does what you can demonstrate.
Map skills and competencies to identify strengths, development areas and capabilities relevant to education and professional growth.
The short answer
Potential is what you might do; competency is what you can show today. Both matter, and confusing them is expensive. Mapping separates the two: what you can currently demonstrate to a standard, what is present but not yet reliable, and what is genuinely absent. The result is a development list ordered by distance rather than by ambition — which is what makes it possible to act on.
What people ask about this
How do you separate what I can do from what I am learning?
Demonstrated, developing and absent kept separate.
What do I do with the gaps it finds?
A development list ordered by how far away each item is.
Can I use any of this outside this site?
Language you can use in an appraisal or an application.
