Methodology¶
KCG's methodology for diagnostic, rights-based work across three practice domains — individual development, organizational strategy, and business growth. Distilled from the eight Client Portal courses; the frameworks transfer across domains. This trunk is the licensable core: a partner organization that licenses the methodology gets access to this trunk's content, themed to their brand.
Start with the Methodology Overview — it explains how the seven frameworks fit together as a diagnostic-then-intervention arc.
Umbrellas¶
Seven Naming the X umbrellas form a diagnostic-then-intervention arc. Each umbrella hands off to the next. Each currently contains one course but is structured to absorb additional courses as KCG produces them.
| # | Umbrella | First course | Course | Lessons | Operates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naming the Engagement | Overview of Coaching | 02 | 12 | The engagement frame — what's covered, what isn't, what's required |
| 2 | Naming the Cause | Root Cause Analysis | 03 | 24 | The problem — symptoms vs. structural causes |
| 3 | Naming the Objective | Strategic Problem Solving | 04 | 18 | The objective — complaint vs. finishable target |
| 4 | Naming the Structure | Structural Clarity | 05 | 12 | The diagnosis — me vs. structure |
| 5 | Naming the Right | Beyond Accommodation | 06 | 9 | The accommodation system — rights vs. favors |
| 6 | Naming the Signal | Leadership for Different Minds | 07 | 9 | The leadership communication layer |
| 7 | Naming the Calibration | Psychological Safety | 08 | 9 | The governance layer — calibration vs. familiarity |
Onboarding¶
- Portal Orientation — procedural orientation for new clients (mirrors Course 01). Not a framework — the working agreement and tour that precedes the methodology arc.
Practices and glossary¶
- Practices — TODO. Cross-framework practices (reflection prompts, knowledge checks, client progression) extracted from the courses. Phase 2 follow-up.
- Glossary (canonical) — methodology vocabulary. The library copy is canonical; this trunk links to it.
What's not in this trunk¶
This trunk summarizes frameworks. It does not reproduce full course content. A licensee with course access reads the lesson stubs directly in the source repo (~/Documents/GitHub/kcg-client-portal-courses/). A licensee without course access reads these summaries — enough to operate the framework, not enough to teach it.
Open Phase 2 follow-ups¶
- Glossary additions. Courses 05–08 introduce terms (translation key, four stops, masking tax, calibration question, three-phase roadmap, four-lever framework, etc.) that aren't yet in the shared glossary. Each framework page lists the open additions in its own Open glossary additions section. Add to
library/glossary.mdonce author-reviewed. - Glossary canonicality flip. Phase 1 mirrored the glossary from
_archive/_glossary.md. Phase 2 retires the source path; the wiki copy becomes canonical. Confirm before flipping (open question 4 inSTATUS.md). - Practices extraction. The reflection prompts, knowledge checks, and client-progression patterns that recur across courses haven't been extracted into a cross-framework practices section yet.
- Source repo links. Framework pages currently reference local filesystem paths to lesson sources. When the course repo gets a public or org-private GitHub home, swap in the URLs.