Once you get comfortable with identifying in which of these four stages your employee is operating, you can be very effective in delegating and following up on work.

The four stages of learning for skills development in this model are the following:

This is where we don't know what we don't know. People in this stage are pretty bad at what they are trying to do. But they are completely unaware of how bad they are. This is why asking a strong senior developer to manage a project and come back if they need help often creates a problem. People in this stage of learning can't recognize problems as they occur, and so don't know to ask for that help.