Adaira Landry MD

And I think that master's of education really helped me in many ways do that.

And I think that master's of education really helped me in many ways do that.

We had initially actually picked the name Chiseled. That was what the book was going to be called, Chiseled. I love that word. But we got some feedback that it was a little too vague, perhaps a little too, it might be construed as too masculine of a term. Is it like someone who's like buff or it just wasn't used well in the workplace. It didn't transfer over, I think, as a workplace word.

We had initially actually picked the name Chiseled. That was what the book was going to be called, Chiseled. I love that word. But we got some feedback that it was a little too vague, perhaps a little too, it might be construed as too masculine of a term. Is it like someone who's like buff or it just wasn't used well in the workplace. It didn't transfer over, I think, as a workplace word.

And we got some feedback that probably is not going to be the final word. And so I think we started thinking about what is it that we want to for the reader to get out of the book. And I think this idea of micro skills comes actually from a term that I heard when I was training to be a doctor. So what happens often in medicine is you have to do this large procedure.

And we got some feedback that probably is not going to be the final word. And so I think we started thinking about what is it that we want to for the reader to get out of the book. And I think this idea of micro skills comes actually from a term that I heard when I was training to be a doctor. So what happens often in medicine is you have to do this large procedure.

Let's say we have to put a catheter in someone's neck, right? But that's like a 40 step, 50 step process. And so for each of those steps, you can really learn how to hold your fingers, how to hold the tubing, how to position the patient. You can optimize each of those things. And a lecture I heard when I was a resident was actually titled Microskills for Placing This Catheter.

Let's say we have to put a catheter in someone's neck, right? But that's like a 40 step, 50 step process. And so for each of those steps, you can really learn how to hold your fingers, how to hold the tubing, how to position the patient. You can optimize each of those things. And a lecture I heard when I was a resident was actually titled Microskills for Placing This Catheter.

That's what it was called. And I loved that title. And so when I was thinking about... what word we could use. I went back to that lecture and I thought to myself, I remember that in that lecture, they weren't teaching the grand scheme of everything, but they were going into the minutia. These are the things you had never considered about this particular procedure.

That's what it was called. And I loved that title. And so when I was thinking about... what word we could use. I went back to that lecture and I thought to myself, I remember that in that lecture, they weren't teaching the grand scheme of everything, but they were going into the minutia. These are the things you had never considered about this particular procedure.

So I think we wanted that idea when it comes to the workplace. Many of us want to be better at communication. Many of us want to be better at navigating conflict. But if you don't get into the weeds of it, then you can totally miss some really important skill sets.

So I think we wanted that idea when it comes to the workplace. Many of us want to be better at communication. Many of us want to be better at navigating conflict. But if you don't get into the weeds of it, then you can totally miss some really important skill sets.

And so we really wanted to dive really deep into those critical actions and key aspects of developing these larger goals that many of us set.

And so we really wanted to dive really deep into those critical actions and key aspects of developing these larger goals that many of us set.