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Can You Measure for Personal Talents?
Return to BlogsPublished: September 03, 2010 07:17 AM
Can you measure the personal talents?
Why should you measure for personal talents?
The duties and tasks that are present in all jobs require human action to complete them. Suppose you have a plant manager position that calls for the person to provide direction to others, to make sure production goals are being met, to be sure employees have a clear understanding of what the goals are and how they are expected to meet them. The job calls for safety measures to be explained and followed, to produce reports for HR and the company, and much more.
Technically a person with a good education (formal or from life experiences), and is disposed toward production activities likely will have the technical skills to do the above tasks. Experience says that though the person may have the technical skills needed to do the tasks, if they do not receive an emotional reward for doing them, the tasks in time will produce internal stress. As stress builds, there is more focus on the stress and less on the tasks that need to be done.
The plant manager position is a multifaceted job. Among other personal talents, it surely needs the talent of self-management. Self-management is a measureable talent. The person who possesses it will manage the many aspects of this position without internal stress. The person will receive an emotional reward for managing the many tasks of the position. By contrast, when a person does not value self-management, he or she will tend to have a habit of catching up which tends to let other people down and increase stress for many others.
Assessments will accurately measure a number of important personal talents. One use of these assessments is designed to get the job to talk about what personal talents are needed for it to be successfully fulfilled. Using an assessment system approach you will be able to benchmark positions for the needed personal talents. Within the system, the second assessment will measure the personal talents candidates or incumbents possess and compare them to the benchmark to see if they are a match for the position.
Yes, you can accurately measure for personal talents.
The reason you want to measure the personal talents incumbents or candidates possess is to know if they will be rewarded for carrying out the key accountabilities of the position in a non-stressful manner and thus be more productive for a long time. Employees who receive an emotional reward for the work they do will do more of it, are contented in the environment, and they become positive influencers on other employees.
Source: John Mathis, Owner/President, Keyline Company, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide. Copyright protected.
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