10 Skills for Changing Ways of Working
Define what people will do differently, understand the obstacles, involve the team, and try the change on a small scale.
Help a new way of working take hold
Each skill gives your AI assistant instructions for a specific task.
For founders, managers, and HR leads in teams of about 20–200 people. Use one skill for a specific problem, or work through the pack step by step.
Explain the situation and what you want to achieve. The assistant will ask questions and help you prepare. Before using its suggestions, check the facts and make sure they fit the situation. Ask the people involved for any information you are missing.
We introduced a new briefing process, but people still send the details in separate messages. Help us find what makes the new process hard to use.
Choose a skill for your situation.
Open a skill below to see what it helps you do. After installing the skill or pasting its prompt into your assistant, use the suggested starting phrase.
Define the Work Change
Describe the task people will do differently, why it should help, and what needs to be checked with those affected.
Run change-behavior-brief.
Download instructionsFind What Makes the Change Difficult
Compare examples of when the new approach was and was not used, then identify obstacles and practical support to try.
Run change-barrier-diagnosis.
Download instructionsPlan How People Can Shape the Change
Decide what is still open to input, who needs a say, and how you will explain the resulting decisions.
Run change-involvement-plan.
Download instructionsPlan Time and Support for the Change
Estimate the extra work needed during the change and propose what to pause, reduce, delay, or support.
Run change-capacity-check.
Download instructionsPlan a Small Trial
Choose what to try, what to measure, what would make you stop, and how you will review the results.
Run change-pilot-design.
Download instructionsHelp People Practice the New Way
Create a worked example, a practice task, and short instructions people can use while doing the work.
Run change-practice-support.
Download instructionsCheck Whether the Change Is Being Used
Review actual use, quality, results, and extra effort to see what the change is doing and what remains unclear.
Run change-adoption-evidence.
Download instructionsReview a Local Change to the Process
Compare a team’s adjustment with the original purpose, check its effects, and propose whether to test or revise it.
Run change-adaptation-review.
Download instructionsDecide Whether to Expand the Change
Use trial results to compare expanding, revising, or stopping the change, including the support each option needs.
Run change-rollout-decision.
Download instructionsReview Whether the New Way Still Helps
Check whether the process still solves the original problem, then choose what to keep, simplify, change, or stop.
Run change-sustainment-review.
Download instructionsOne download. Several ways to use it.
Unzip the download, then follow the instructions for your assistant.
Open one prompt file in portable/, copy its contents into a chat, and describe your situation.
To keep the whole pack in a project, upload portable/ALL-SKILLS.md as a project source, then paste the contents of PROJECT-INSTRUCTIONS.md into the project's instructions. If the assistant does not follow an uploaded prompt, paste that prompt directly into the chat.
In Claude, upload the individual skill ZIPs from install/ using the custom Skills feature. For another assistant that supports Agent Skills, copy the skill folders you need from skills/ into the directory that assistant uses for skills.
See README.md for installation options and a list of the included files.
Free for internal and client work under the Polar Bear license. Not for resale. Available features and results depend on the assistant you use.
Understand the research behind the pack.
The research notes explain which studies informed the skills, what those studies found, and where the findings may not apply. We have not tested whether these AI skills improve workplace outcomes.
Replace real names with placeholders and share only the information the assistant needs. You are responsible for checking facts, making decisions, and speaking with others. If the assistant predicts how someone might react, treat that as one possibility. Ask the person directly when you need to understand their view.
Download the research notes