Heat — Get it to temperature
Forty to sixty minutes of instruction with the evidence, the decision rules, and the failure modes. No filler, no history lesson, no forty slides of definitions you already know. This is the part every other CEU stops at.
Learning objectives are published before you buy. Instructor qualifications are published with them.
Hammer — Shape it on your own work
You do the thing. On your caseload, your team, your document — not a vignette about a fictional 7-year-old. Guided rehearsal with worked examples and a structure that will not let you skip to the end.
Live workshops rehearse in real time with scored feedback. On-demand courses use structured build steps with model answers.
Quench — Leave holding something
Every course ends with a finished artifact: a protocol, a checklist, a rewritten plan, a script, a rationale. If you finish the course and have nothing you can put in front of a technician on Monday, we built it wrong.
Every artifact is listed on the course page before you enroll. You know what you are leaving with.
Temper — Find out whether it held
Thirty days later we send you the fidelity check for the thing you built — three questions and a measure. You will know whether it survived contact with your actual week. So will we.
Temper checks are how we retire courses. A course whose artifacts stop getting used gets rebuilt or removed.
Side by side
What three hours buys you, either way.
| Stage | A typical CEU | A Skillforge course |
|---|---|---|
| Heat Instruction | A recorded talk. Often good. Often too long, and rarely written toward a decision you have to make. | 40–60 minutes built around the decision rules and the failure modes, with published objectives. |
| Hammer Rehearsal | None. This is where continuing education stops. | Guided build steps on your own case, team, or document. Live workshops rehearse out loud and score it. |
| Quench Product | A PDF of the slides. | A finished artifact: protocol, checklist, script, rationale, or rewritten plan. Named up front. |
| Temper Follow-through | A satisfaction survey, sent immediately, measuring how the hour felt. | A fidelity measure, sent at 30 days, measuring whether the thing is still in use. |
| Evidence Verification | Three questions per CEU — the regulatory floor. | Build steps, a knowledge assessment above the floor, and the 30-day check. |
Temper checks
The part
nobody
else does.
Thirty days after you complete a course, you get one email. It asks three or four questions about the artifact you built: is it in use, who is using it, and what does the measure say. It takes about five minutes.
It exists for two reasons, and only one of them is about you.
For you: a month is exactly long enough for a good intention to quietly die. The check is a prompt at the moment the thing is either embedded or gone, and it tells you which.
For us: it is the only honest measure of whether a course works. Satisfaction surveys measure how an hour felt. We would rather know whether a protocol is still on the wall in November.
Courses whose artifacts stop getting used get rebuilt or retired. That is what the data are for.
Temper results are reported to you individually. For Teams accounts, results are also reported to the agency in aggregate — never as individual scores tied to a named clinician.