THE NEW POWER SKILLS

Make your humanity your greatest professional asset.

A funny thing happened on the way to the world's obsession with AI… a flight to humanity. After extensive interviews with global leaders on how people are promoted, why they stagnate, and the causes for termination, Scott codified 28 Power Skills that every human needs to master in order to make humanity their greatest professional asset.

The New Power Skills book cover by Scott Jeffrey Miller

Suspicion is now a necessary human competency.
But so is listening.
As is embracing public criticism.

While the world races to automate everything, the leaders who win will be the ones who master what can't be automated: reading a room, delivering difficult news, asking for help, owning a mistake without a single “yes, but…” Each of the 28 Power Skills is featured on a two-sided card: the principle and the questions it forces on one side — and on the other, the Rookie Mistake everyone makes versus the Pro Move that separates the best. In each of Scott’s keynotes, every participant receives their own printed Power Skills card deck to ensure
the insights thrive long after Scott is gone.

The 28 Power Skills

Flip a card. Spot yourself.

Click or tap any card to see the Rookie Mistake — and the Pro Move.

The New Power Skills card 1: Practice Self-Awareness (front)
Practice Self-Awareness — The Rookie Mistake and The Pro Move (back)
Ask For and Receive Feedback — New Power Skills card 2 (front)
Ask For and Receive Feedback — card 2 (back)
Offer Effective Feedback — New Power Skills card 3 (front)
Offer Effective Feedback — card 3 (back)
Regulate Your Frequency — New Power Skills card 4 (front)
Regulate Your Frequency — card 4 (back)
Ask For Help — New Power Skills card 5 (front)
Ask For Help — card 5 (back)
Demonstrate Wise Compassion — New Power Skills card 6 (front)
Demonstrate Wise Compassion — card 6 (back)
Admit Mistakes — New Power Skills card 7 (front)
Admit Mistakes — card 7 (back)
Offer Apologies — New Power Skills card 8 (front)
Offer Apologies — card 8 (back)
Embrace Conflict to Create Clarity — New Power Skills card 9 (front)
Embrace Conflict to Create Clarity — card 9 (back)
Read the Body Language and Emotions of Others — New Power Skills card 10 (front)
Read the Body Language and Emotions of Others — card 10 (back)
Learn Your Organization's Culture — New Power Skills card 11 (front)
Learn Your Organization's Culture — card 11 (back)
Align Talents with Organizational Priorities — New Power Skills card 12 (front)
Align Talents with Organizational Priorities — card 12 (back)
Discern Truth From Falsity — New Power Skills card 13 (front)
Discern Truth From Falsity — card 13 (back)
Maintain Social and Cultural Sensitivity — New Power Skills card 14 (front)
Maintain Social and Cultural Sensitivity — card 14 (back)
Practice Social Manners — New Power Skills card 15 (front)
Practice Social Manners — card 15 (back)
Practice Disciplined Thought — New Power Skills card 16 (front)
Practice Disciplined Thought — card 16 (back)
Create a Personal Planning System — New Power Skills card 17 (front)
Create a Personal Planning System — card 17 (back)
Take Initiative and Ownership — New Power Skills card 18 (front)
Take Initiative and Ownership — card 18 (back)
Cultivate Long-Term and Big-Picture Thinking — New Power Skills card 19 (front)
Cultivate Long-Term and Big-Picture Thinking — card 19 (back)
Deploy Artful Indifference — New Power Skills card 20 (front)
Deploy Artful Indifference — card 20 (back)
Listen Attentively — New Power Skills card 21 (front)
Listen Attentively — card 21 (back)
Communicate Persuasively — New Power Skills card 22 (front)
Communicate Persuasively — card 22 (back)
Deliver Difficult News — New Power Skills card 23 (front)
Deliver Difficult News — card 23 (back)
Lean Into Uncertainty — New Power Skills card 24 (front)
Lean Into Uncertainty — card 24 (back)
Frame the Right Problem — New Power Skills card 25 (front)
Frame the Right Problem — card 25 (back)
Embrace Public Criticism — New Power Skills card 26 (front)
Embrace Public Criticism — card 26 (back)
Name Your Motive — New Power Skills card 27 (front)
Name Your Motive — card 27 (back)
Master Difficult Conversations — New Power Skills card 28 (front)
Master Difficult Conversations — card 28 (back)
The Keynote

Your audience. Your skills. Your session.

No two New Power Skills keynotes are the same. Clients select up to 4-5 Power Skills per hour. Scott then builds and delivers the session around your people, your culture, and your moment. 90 minutes to 2 hours. Live or virtual. No slides — ever. The Power Skills card deck becomes the centerpiece for your participants’ learning, both live in the session and, most vitally, back in the wild — a.k.a. your workplace.

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The Book

Book 9. Coming soon.

The New Power Skills will be Scott's ninth book, built on the same 28-skill framework he's already delivering to audiences around the world. Be first to know when it lands.

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