Your first week

This is the fastest path to getting value from Admire: pick the few skills that matter right now, move your 1-1s here, and set a rhythm so coaching keeps happening.

Let your AI do this with you

We strongly recommend connecting your AI first and asking it to handle these steps with you. It works through Admire’s guided workflows, so it’s faster than clicking through the UI and you stay in control of every decision.

1. Identify ~5 key skills tied to your upcoming goals.

   Don’t aim for completeness. Pick the handful of skills that most affect what your team needs to deliver next, and define them in the platform. Your AI can draft them, or browse ready-made skillsets by category in the Skills Vault.

   • Create or import skills
   • Browse the Skills Vault by category
   • Set role expectations

2. Add your people and set up relationships.

   Add each person you manage (invite them, or add them without an invite if you’re not ready to share yet) and set yourself as their coach, so you can start taking notes and running 1-1s against them.

   • Add & manage people
   • Relationships

3. Bring coaching into your 1-1s.

   Your regular 1-1 is the most natural place to start: pick 1–2 skills to cover alongside the usual conversation. To go over more skills, set up a dedicated coaching Meeting. The goal this week is a baseline and a first round of feedback, not a complete assessment.

   • Plan a Meeting
   • Run a Meeting

4. Show people how to close their gaps.

   Where a skill came up short, make sure the person knows how to improve: playbooks capture how your organization does it, and AI self-coaching lets them practice on their own between sessions.

5. Establish a cadence.

   Recurring 1-1s, or dedicated coaching sessions, are what make coaching systematic rather than occasional. Coaching 1–2 skills per session is plenty.

6. Review skill priorities monthly or quarterly.

   Set a recurring reminder to revisit which skills matter most for what’s coming, and update each person’s prioritization, so you’re always coaching the most impactful skill.

Keep going

That’s the loop. As observations accumulate, read the results on staff profiles and on dashboards, and track KPIs with role metrics.