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O b j e c t i v eTo capitalize on yourstrength,
and manage aroundyour weakness
To be what we are,
and to become whatwe are capable ofbecoming
S t r e n g t h
• Consistent near perfectperformance in anactivity
• For an activity to be astrength you must beable to do itconsistently
• You do not have tohave strength in everyaspect of your role inorder to excel
• You will excel only bymaximizing yourstrengths, never fixingyour weakness
S t r e n g t h
Talent
Knowledge Skill
K n o w l e d g e
Factual Knowledge
• What you aware of
• Things you know
• Can and Should be Taught
Experimental Knowledge
• Understandings you have picked up along the way –Experience
• Less Tangible and much harder to teach
• Acquiring is individual responsibility
• Comes with Time, if you are Listening
Skill
Skills are the how-to’s of a ROLE
They are capabilities that can be transferred from one person to
another
P r o c e d u r a l K n o w l e d g e
Skill
The Best way to teach a skill is to break down the
total performance into steps, which the student then reassembles
The Best Way to develop a skill is to
P R A C T I C E
As we ‘learn’ the skills required of the task,
the whole activity gradually shifts from conscious attention to
subconscious control
• Any experience involves both knowledge andskill.
• But while quite different forms of experiencecan generate the same knowledge.
• Every diffrenrt forms of experience generatesdifferent skills.
• In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
• In practice there is
• By Chuck Reid
Values
Those aspects of life that you hold dear
Experimental Knowledge
As you make choices, sometimes compromising, sometimes holding firm,
you come to realize that certain aspects of your life are
more importatant than others
These critical aspects, guiding the choices you make in the future.
Some of these values will remain constant throughout your life.
Others will change with time and reflection
Talent
Recurring pattern of thought,
feeling,
action or behaviour
that can be productively applied
Every role, performed at excellence, requires talent
because
every role performed at excellence, requires certain recurring pattern of
thought, feeling or behaviour
Filter (Finger Print)
A characteristic way of responding to the world around you
• Which stimuli to notice and which to ignore
• Which to love and which to hateTells you
• Are you competitive? / ego driven? / altruistic?
Creates your innate
motivations
• Are you disciplined/laissez-faire/ practical / strategic
Defines how you think
Forges your prevailing attitudes
Are you Optimistic or cynical?
Are you Calm or anxious?
Are you Empathetic or Cold?
Filter
Creates in you all of your distinct patterns, feelings and behaviors
Your Filter is the source of your Talents
Because every humane being is guided by his unique filter,
the same situation produces very different reactions
Same stimuli, different reactions, very different performances
Your filter is constantly at work, Sorting, Shifting, Creating your
World in Real Time
Your filter is constantly telling you the few things
YOU MUST Do or Feel or Think
Your Filter, more than your
Race, Sex,
Age, orNationality,
is YO U
Talent - Examples
• Instinctively inquisitive
• Competitive
• Charming
• Persistent
• Nervousness? -Along with What If?
Talent so important to Strength Building
• Every day you have small decisions to make • Talent influence every small decisions you make• Thousands of small decisions that confront you
throughout the day• Unable to intellectualize every minute decision• You are compelled to react instinctively• Brain finds and follow the path of least resistance
– your Talent• Sum of these tiny decisions – your performance
for the day
• Skill determine if you can do something
• Talent reveals something more important: how well and how often you do it
Three ways to learn NATURALLY
1. Continue To Strengthen Your SynapticConnections (as happens when you perfect atalent with relevant skills and knowledge)
2. Keep Losing More of Your ExtraneousConnections (as also happens when youfocus on your talents and allow otherconnections to deteriorate)
3. Develop a few More Synaptic Connections(least efficient)
• Learning is NOT an event but a Process
• Ongoing support to be provided to participants AFTER the training
• Talents have not only an “I can’t help it” quality to training participants but also an “ it feels good” quality.
Traces of Talents
• Spontaneous, top-of-the mind reactions
• Reactions under extreme stress
• Yearnings
• Rapid Learning
• Satisfactions
Yearnings
• Early days in life
• Child drawn to some activities and repelled by others
• Differences between siblings
• You should pay attention, notice it
Rapid Learning
• Sometimes doesn’t signal through yearning
• Notice it comparatively late in life
• Start to learn new skill
• in the context of new job
• new challenges
• new environment
• Immediately your brain light up, switch on
• Skipping the steps to achieve, ahead of others
If you learn rapidly, look deeper, that is your talent
Satisfaction
• Feels good, when perform an activity, do it
• You either feel it or you don’t
• When can I do this again
• Bringing order to chaos
• Host an event
• Delighted in Cleanliness, maintain discipline
• Finding the truth
Three kinds of Talent
Striving
Why of a Person
Why he gets out of bed every
day?
Thinking
How of a person
How he comes to this decision?
Relating
Who of a person
Whom he builds relationship?
Whom he confronts?
M I L L 1 O N
One in a million
P YA
A Rise in Pay
TEMPER TURE
A D r o p i n Te m p e r a t u r e
B U T
1 ) T H O U G H T 2 ) T H O U G H T
B u t o n s e c o n d t h o u g h t
S t r e n g t h
Talent
Knowledge Skill
Habits / Attitude/Drive
Talent
• Excellence
• Innovation
• Strategic thinking
• Unteachable
• Hard to transferable
Skill
• Arithmetic
• Word, Excel
• Give a safe Injection
• Teachable
Knowledge
• Safety Rules
• Teachable
Limitation of Skill & Knowledge –Situation Specific
Range in Performance
• Same Education, Same Experience, SameBrain Power, Same Willpower will end up witha range in performance
• Talent is more important than
• Talent only can explain why, all other factorsbeing equal, some people excel in the role andsome struggle
Same Stimuli, different reaction due to talents, very different performances
C o m p e t e n c y
Part
Talent
Part
Knowledge
Part
Skill
Ta l e nt
Att i t u d e sH a b i t sD r i v e
Strength Finder Profile
• To monitor your behavior and feelings over an extended period of time
• Paying particular attention to clues
• To find where you have the greatest potential for a strength
Themes of Strengths
Person Category Quality
Achiever Adaptability Analytical
Activator Arranger Belief
Command Competition Communication
Deliberative Connectedness Discipline
Developer Context Empathy
Focus Fairness Futuristic
Learner Ideation Harmony
Maximizer Inclusiveness Individualization
Relator Input positivity
Self-assurance Intellection Significance
Responsibility strategic
Restorative
Woo
Achiever
• A constant need for achievement, next, next
• Every day starts at zero and ends with an achievement
• Achievement may not be logical or focused
• Working long hours without burning out
• Always looking for new task and new challenges
Activator
• When can we start?• Only action can make things happen• Only action leads to performance• In you view, action and thinking are not opposite,
you work while you think• Believe , action is the best device for learning• You make decision, take action, look at the result
and you learn• You will not be judged by whay you say, not by
what you think, but by what you get done
Analytical
• You challenge others to prove it, ask for evidence
• You do not kill others idea but look fro proof
• Like data very much, look for patterns and connections
• Want to understand how certain pattern affects one another, how do you combine, what is the outcome, how yhis outcome fit with thoery
• You peel the layers until the root causes are revealed
Arranger
• You keep so many things in head at once• Love to deal with so mnay factors with a complex
situations• You stay so flexible• Always looking for perfect configurations• Last minute unexpected changes will not confuse
you• Jump into the confusion, devise new options,
hunting new paths of least resistance, figuring out new partnerships
Belief
• Family-oriented, selfless, spiritual
• Value responsibility and high ethics – both in yourself and others
• Core values affect your behaviors
• Core values give life meaning and satisfaction
• Core values directed you to set priorities
• Success is more than money and prestige
• Trusted and Dependable
Command
• Take charge
• No discomfort on imposing your ideas on others
• Opinion is formed , you need to share with others
• Once goal is set, you are restless until you aligned others with you
• Not frightened by confrontations
• Guts to say NO, tough and unpleasant decisions/info
• You need things to be clear between people
Communication
• You like to explain, describe, host, speak in public and to write
• You like to give life and energy to ideas
• You turn events into stories and practice telling them
• You want your info, idea, story, product to survive
• You hunt for perfect phrase
• You inspire people to act, sharpen their world
• People like to listen to you
Obstacles to Building Strengths
• Fear of Weakness
• Fear of Failure
• Fear of One’s True Self
Weakness
Activities that are effortless for some
may be
Frustratingly Difficult for others
Weakness
• Working hard to mange weakness only prevent failure
• It will not help to reach excellence
• Understanding and cultivation strength only will reach excellence
Weakness - Definition
• Anything that gets in the way of excellent performance
• As soon as you find yourself in a ROLE thatrequires you to one of your nontalents - orarea of low skills or knowledge – a weakness isborn
Focus on your strengths and
find ways to manage your weakness
Identify weakness
• Knowledge weakness
• Skill weakness
• Talent weakness – definitely YES
YES
GAIN
NO
YES
Practice
NO
Managing a Talent Weakness
1. Get a little better at it – baseline requirement for any role – at the cost of what?
2. Design a support system- what - if
Anticipate the obstacles – find alternate path
A system that stops your worrying about a weakness is freeing up time to refine your strength
3. Use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness
Pressure of performing weakness may bring out your strength
Speak on stage – fear – brain work faster and words flow sponatneousely
4. Find a PartnerWhat is impresssive is simply each person’s willingness to admit their imperfectionsIt takes a strong person to ask for help
5. Just stop doing it and see whether any one cares – if so, 3 out comes surprises youa. How little anyone caresb. How much respect you gainc. How much better you feel
Confessing yourunfixable weakness,
you may win the trust and respect of the
people around you
Fear of Failure
• All failures are not equal, some are easy to digest
• When the cause of the failure seems to have nothing to do with who we really are, we can accept it
• Our basic insticts encourages us to take pleasure in another’s misfortunes;unfortunatly, the pleasure seems to incraes in direct propotion to the other perosn’s ego. The bigger his ego, the greater our pleasure in his failure.
Act, Learn, refine, Act, Learn, refine
• To be bold
• To be perceptive (sharp, aware, understanding, keen, observant)
• To listen for performance feedback from the outside world
• To keep investigating your strengths despite the many influences pulling you away from them
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. There is no point making a fool of yourself. You might be searching for your strengths in the wrong places.
It is your opportunity to take your natural talents and transform
them through focus and practice and learning into consistent near
perfect performance
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life
Baruch Spinoza, Philospher
Delusion:
Keep actingKeep failing
and do not realize it
Delusion and denial is a lethal combination
Fear of One’s True Self
Symptoms:
Plain old insecurity
A feeling of inadequacy
Flip side of insecurity iscomplacency
Suspect Luck andcircumstances forSuccess NOT Strength
Feel strength isDegrees, certificates asproof.
Natural Talents isStrength
We live with our strengths everyday without realizing / take it granted. We have to REMAIND
You will be most Successful
when you craft your Role to
play to your signature talents
most of the time
Questions???
Ev e r y d a y,
a r e y o u u s i n g y o u r e n e r g y
O R
w a s t i n g y o u r e n e r g y
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