Jacques Leplat Leplat defines a skill as an activity that is internalized, "identifiable by an execution that is rapid, precise, and capable of being performed in parallel with other activities" (Leplat & Pailhous, 1981)" Leplat has three categories of tacit skills: - the amount of skill required versus the skill officially required - explicitly defined skill and skill actually used - ==skill that has not undergone formal training but has been acquired through practice== He mostly discusses tacit skill in relation to an organization or a job, thus the first two categories. However, he does say that tacit skills are "difficult to verbalise and define" and as such they are often "neglected by the organisation." "the sum of these skills is not simply a shapeless collection, but an organization" - p. 148 - This is similar to organizations being a collection of knowledge - [[202006031200 An organization that knows how to do new things well and quickly]] --- It is the third (highlighted) category that I'm interested in. I would go even farther and say it's neglected by individuals as individuals themselves are not aware that they have an ability that has been acquired, trained, and refined through repetition and practice. That is, individuals don't recognize their own competence when the tacit skill itself is so internalized. When something is easy to do, we no longer see it as a particular skill that indeed took us time and effort to acquire and perfect. [[tacit skills]] #paper