Nouns don't always transfer

I've helped a lot of people identify their transferable skills. In coaching sessions. In 1:1s, back when I was running teams. In the conversations that happen after a reorg, when someone wants to work out what they've actually got.Almost everyone answers with nouns. Communication. Leadership. Problem solving. Stakeholder management, if they've been in a big company long enough.Nobody believes any of it. Not the person hearing it, and not the person saying it.The nouns fail because they're conclusions with no evidence attached, and because everyone claims the same six. The evidence exists. It's just filed somewhere nobody thinks to look.The job description is the wrong documentThe instinct is to go through your job description and translate. That's why the nouns come out. A job description was written by someone else, to describe a role rather than a person, usually a year before you got there.It tells you what the organisation needed. It can't tell the difference between the parts you…