Your Skills Quest

We guide you through 6 key skill areas - each focused on an important human skill. We give you an experience that focuses your precious time on the things that matter and power your ability to reach your goals.

We break things down into bite-sized pieces (and sprinkle in a bit of fun along the way).

How the Skills Quest works

Your journey starts with Level 1 of Self Awareness, after which you can move on to developing any of the other skills.

Expect to spend about 60 - 90 minutes on each level where you'll learn practical tools and techniques. Spread over a week, that's 10-15 minutes a day.

Of course, you can do it at whatever pace suits you best, but try to keep the completion of each level to no longer than 2 weeks for optimal impact and momentum.

If you stick to one level per week, you could complete all 6 quests in about 30 weeks (but everyone is different so you want to find the pace that's right for you).

In each level you will...

Read through simple, 'bite sized' articles that give you the basic knowledge and information to develop your skills.

This includes some optional practice questions to confirm your understanding.

This usually takes about 15 minutes.

Take a short quiz to test your knowledge.

This will only take you a few minutes.

Complete simple 'real-world' tasks to practise your learning and develop new skills. For lasting results, learning must be put into action quickly to make it stick.

Missions are designed to be completed over a number of days. We recommend spacing them out over a week, but you can do them as fast as you like.

We set a 7-day 'timer' to encourage you to complete them within a week. Having a deadline is a useful motivator (but you can decide to re-do a mission and re-set the timer if you need to).

Pausing to reflect on what you learnt, how far you have come and the things that feel different for you, will help you gain important insight. Use this new knowledge and experience to keep growing, improving and developing your skills.

Each reflection can take a couple of minutes or longer, depending on how deeply you want to reflect. It's an important step so we encourage you to take your time and really explore your thoughts and feelings to maximise the work you've put in so far.

As you work through each of the 6 skill areas you will...

You may be thinking "Superpowers! What the heck?". That's OK, most people do!

Self Awareness, and specifically a deep knowledge of your strengths and weaknesses, is likely to be your single biggest influencer for all other aspects of your life. A study of working adults found that 48% felt self awareness was the most important human skill in their career journey. That makes it really important and that's why we start there.

Discover your unique 'superpowers' in level 1 of the Self Awareness quest.

As you complete each step in a level, you will earn points.

Points are used to tell you where you're ranked relative to other active Hodie users each month. It's just a bit of fun and designed to help maintain momentum and motivation.

Sidekicks are fun characters with their own special gifts.

There are 6 'sidekicks' to collect, one for each quest you complete. Your sidekicks will gradually reveal themselves as you complete each level within the quest.

When you complete each of the 6 skill quests, you will receive a completion certificate in Hodie. This is to certify that you have successfully completed all aspects of the quest and are well on your way to mastering that skill area!

'Navigator' level contains these first 6 skill areas. Once you've graduated by completing them all, you can progress to higher chapters to keep building and strengthening your skills (higher chapters coming soon)

Skills, Quests, Levels...great, but how is this going to make a difference for my success?

You will stand out from the crowd because most people are not focusing anywhere near enough time developing their human skills.

The 6 skill quests in the 'Navigator' level will help you build strong foundations, and provide you tools and techniques needed to start seeing tangible improvements.

Here are some simple examples (to name just a few!):

  • You will learn how to identify your strengths and then craft your personal story to maximise impact when applying for jobs, and in interviews.
  • You will better use your strengths to smash daily goals, get the most out of yourself and navigate around your weaknesses (rather than stressing about trying to be perfect at everything!).
  • You will learn and practise techniques for dealing with challenging people and having difficult conversations.
  • You will be more aware of things like body language so you can 'read' the room better to improve your communication.
  • You will better understand your purpose because without clear purpose it is hard to have meaningful goals and keep motivated to achieve them.
  • You'll be using simple techniques to deal with stress and build your confidence.
  • You will start applying techniques to see things from different perspectives and encourage creativity.

We could go on but instead, you can explore what each quest will offer you in the 'skills quest' section of the app.

Let's be honest, you're not going to achieve full mastery of human skills in just a few weeks or months. The most successful people will tell you that the learning never stops. That's what makes life so interesting.

WARNING - If anyone tells you that you can master anything in 10 hours or less, we hate to break it to you, but that's highly unlikely!

All quests completed in the 'Navigator' level help you develop the fundamentals and give you a well-rounded base to work from.

Yes, you're likely to start noticing a change quickly, but human skills development is an ongoing process. You can't expect to do things once and become a master.

Our promise - Hodie will stick with you during this exciting human skill development adventure. If you want to keep developing your skills with Hodie, you will be able to progress to the 'Artisan' and 'Master' chapters (coming soon) to keep building, deepening and reinforcing your skills.

We're currently developing the Artisan and Master courses using feedback from our Hodie community.