The model focusses on the interplay between awareness and competence and identifies 4 clear stages:
Unconsciously incompetent – we don’t know that we don’t have this skill, or that we need to learn it.
Consciously incompetent – we know that we don’t have this skill.
Consciously competent – we know that we have this skill.
Unconsciously competent – we don’t know that we have this skill (it just seems easy).
Unconsciously incompetent – we don’t know that we don’t have this skill, or that we need to learn it.
Consciously incompetent – we know that we don’t have this skill.
Consciously competent – we know that we have this skill.
Unconsciously competent – we don’t know that we have this skill (it just seems easy).