G.U.I.D.E.

What is a guide?

A guide leads people through territory. Physical. Intellectual. Emotional. Spiritual.

A guide is a 2nd grade teacher, a harbor pilot, a backcountry guide, a museum docent, a friend showing you around their city, and a thousand other things.

Most of us have the opportunity to guide in one form or another, because there's always things we know more about than other people.

You could even think of yourself as a guide for your doctor and dentist, helping them understand the situation in the body.

You don't have to know everything to be a guide, you just have to know more than the people you're leading.

And enough to stay in ecology with the territory you're passing through.

A guide should G.U.I.D.E, consistently working to improve their skills in 5 categories, in descending order of importance.

Goodness - Extending care to the group, the environment, and the people you meet along the way.

Utilization - The ability to draw on what's happening to strengthen a narrative and accentuate an experience.

Information Management - Efficient collection, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of operational data and domain knowledge.

Domain Knowledge - The guide's hopefully ever-increasing knowledge of a given territory, whether it be physical, intellectual, or otherwise.

Eloquence - Ability to share domain knowledge in an eloquent way.