---
id: "action-categorize-skills"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["18:55:00", "20:30:00"]
tags: ["organizational-design"]
related: ["concept-three-tiers-skills", "framework-three-tier-deployment", "question-enterprise-access-controls"]
speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
outcome: "Clarifies deployment strategies, ensuring high-value expert workflows are shared while maintaining brand consistency."
sources: ["s43-file-format-agreement"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s43-file-format-agreement"
originDay: 43
---
# Categorize skills into three tiers

## Action

Audit and organize your organization's skills into **Standard (Tier 1)**, **Methodology (Tier 2)**, and **Personal (Tier 3)** buckets.

## Why

Different tiers have different deployment, governance, and discoverability needs. See [[concept-three-tiers-skills]] and [[framework-three-tier-deployment]].

## Outcome

Clarifies deployment strategies, ensuring high-value expert workflows (Tier 2) are shared across the org while maintaining brand consistency at Tier 1.

## How

1. Inventory existing skills (including individual *under-the-desk* helpers).
2. Tag each skill with its tier.
3. Provision Tier 1 broadly via enterprise admin.
4. Curate Tier 2 with explicit governance (see open question [[question-enterprise-access-controls]]).
5. Encourage promotion of useful Tier 3 skills upward.