Personally relevant
Your vision and current circumstances determine which development step can make a meaningful difference.
Development · Method
WEITER7
From your personal vision to the right next step.
WEITER7 combines orientation, deliberate prioritisation and small experiments in a development cycle designed for everyday life. The method helps you choose the Future Skill that offers the most meaningful opportunity for change in your life right now.
WEITER7 is the new name for the Future Skills Institut’s seven-step development method.
What WEITER7 stands for
Individual. Context-sensitive. Open to learning.
The method treats development as a recurring process. It provides structure without prescribing a linear path or a universal development goal.
Deliberately focused
Choose one meaningful priority from 24 skills and 96 subskills, rather than trying to improve everything at once.
Tested in everyday life
Small experiments create experience. Reflection helps you decide what to keep, change or leave behind.
The WEITER7 cycle
Seven steps. Three clear phases.
The phases make the process easier to navigate. The seven steps retain the depth of the original development approach.
Phase 1Steps 1–3
Find your direction
1
Develop your visionHow would I like to shape my life, from where I stand today?
2
Reality checkWhat resources and constraints shape my situation?
3
Establish your directionHow would I recognise a helpful change?
Phase 2Steps 4–5
Focus
4
Reflect with the frameworkWhich skill or subskill could make the biggest difference right now?
5
Prioritise deliberatelyWhat matters now, and what can wait?
Phase 3Steps 6–7
Experiment & learn
6
Design an experimentTry a small, personally appropriate practice activity in everyday life.
7
Reflect on your learningWhat helped, and what should change in the next cycle?
An integrated system
From understanding to a personal experiment.
WEITER7 connects the institute’s foundations with practical development in everyday life.
BookExplains our understanding of skills and the development process.
Research foundationsMake the selection of skills and its rationale transparent.
Competency AtlasDescribes 24 skills, 96 subskills and 480 orientation anchors.
WEITER7Turns reflection into a realistic development cycle.
My Future SkillsSupports WEITER7 digitally through reflection, selection and experimentation.
Evidence status
Transparency before certification claims.
WEITER7 is informed by research and documented at a conceptual level. Claims about testing, evaluation or effectiveness will only be made when the corresponding evidence is available.
TODAYA method informed by research, with published foundations, clear steps and a transparent account of its methodological status.
NEXT STAGESystematic practical testing with defined target groups, feedback and documented learning cycles.
LONGER-TERM AIMScientific evaluation with specified outcomes, study design and limitations; followed by a quality-assured certification programme for facilitators.
Find the next step that fits.
My Future Skills guides you digitally through the WEITER7 method: reflection, prioritisation, experimentation and learning.
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