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Defining Personal Talents
Return to BlogsPublished: August 24, 2010 01:42 AM
All people have likes and dislikes. One of the keys to personal growth is learning what they genuinely like to do and what they don't like to do. There are people that plug along because they think it is expected of them no matter how difficult it is for them.
As people begin their career development they often do remedial tasks they consider to be the dues they need to pay to get ahead. However, over time the person needs to recognize if what they are doing is producing an emotional reward for them or not. Do they like doing what they are doing?
When they begin to realize there are tasks they like and those they don't they are becoming aware of the personal talents they have and begin to cherish them. These tasks and the talents needed for them to do them well, produce meaning for the person's life and they soon become superior performers. They do the job because the job itself produces and emotional reward for them and it benefits the company they work for, and those they work with.
Personal talents are those that people think about the most. What a person thinks about is what they will do. Sales pepeople does not turn off the of job of developing sales contacts when they go to bed at night. The proof of this is to ask them what are their first thoughts when they wake up in the morning? Usually they are what they have a passion (talent) for - developing new business . You can do the samething with the warehouse man, the office manager, or the customer service person. If they receive an emotional reward for the work they do they will have personal talents for it.
Benchmarking any position in a company will get the job to describe what personal talents are needed to carry out the technical skills the position requires. If you want to have superior performance from any position, match employees who have the personal talents it needs to it.
Source: John Mathis, Owner/President, Keyline Company, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide. Copyright protected.
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