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Really the question you might want to yourself ask is this. How much is it costing you right now not doing what you do best. Not using your talents so that you can enjoy yourself more, achieve more, and quite likely over the long run, earn more?
These are your talents. But they aren'y any good to you if you can't, or won't use them.
In other words, it's about who you are and what you do best. The real key to forging a career that will lead to your satisfaction, success and total fulfilment.Think of your future; you're going to spend the rest of your life there!
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It doesn't mean that you can't do other things if you want to, or that all the things you learned are wasted. Simply that if you really want to be fulfilled and enjoy great success, using your innate talents gives you a head start on your journey.
You can use your skills, knowledge and experience to add to your talents, creating harmony, and even greater success.
This is about you, and what you do best. How can that not be to your advantage?
Working with your natural talents will make a huge contribution to your life and career satisfaction.
We know from multiple studies that people who work with their natural abilities are more likely to lead satisfied, fulfilled and successful lives.
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Many of the world's leading companies do, like Glaxo Smith Kline, IBM, Marriot and many others.
They know and understand the value of people knowing, using and developing their innate talents.
Typically, they encourage talent focus as the best way of constructing a meaningful and focused personal life and career development plan.
You might want to do the same.
Read More ...Originally, a man named Johnson O'Connor, a research scientist, who dedicated his life to helping people understand their natural abilities, and how to use them.
He was convinced that restlessness and frustration at work was the result of not using our inborn talents, and that only by fully using those talent were people able to lead satisfied and fulfilled lives.
O’Connor’s tests were originally designed, developed and administered in a laboratory.
Later, a group of O'Connor researchers further developed the tests (essentially a series of puzzles) into a paper and pencil battery.
That made available, for the first time, a valid assessment of innate abilities, capable of administration and interpretation by trained personnel, outside the clinic or laboratory.
It is that assessment, now developed by The Highlands Company for online and in-home use, that we use to help you discover your natural talents.
Read More ...Most psychometric tests measure personality traits by asking you to make choices amongst, typically, pairs of words or phrases.
It's well known that these responses are likely to change over time according to the environment you are in, and your circumstances etc, so they aren't all that reliable as a predictor of performance or as a development tool.
We provide an objective measure of your natural (innate) talents, which, from the age of about fourteen, are pretty much fixed.
We use specific worksamples to test a specific ability, under time pressure to eradicate skills bias, and reports on the results by comparing with other people who have completed the worksamples.
The result is that you know, with certainty, what you do best, now and into the future. That enables you to make more informed decisions about the right path for you to achieve and be completely fulfilled.
It's the path to accomplishment, mastery and success.
About 3 hours, on your own computer, in the comfort of your own home, either by CD or via the Internet.
It can be completed in up to three sittings where time constraints demand and still retain validity.
Following completion, you receive a comprehensive, confidential, 32-page report detailing your results, which forms the basis of a 2-hour feedback conference to ensure you get the absolute most from the experience.
During the conference you'll discover new insights into yourself like your learning channels, personal style, communications preferences, work environment, problem solving and decision making, and what roles are best suited to your uniqure talent patterns.
And of course, we're there for you long after you complete the assessment to advise and guide, should you want us to.
You'll be more successful in it !
Knowing what you do best can only help, inform and empower you.
Fitting your talents to your role means you'll enjoy what you do more, which means you'll do it better, easier, and faster.
Really using your talents is how you become successful. Ask any successful person !
Using your talents means your learning and development becomes more focused on developing your talents to the point where you achieve mastery. If you want to achieve more, do what successful people do; use your talents in the way they were intended to be used.
Read More ...Considering you're going to be able to contribute more by knowing what you do best, your boss should be delighted.
Companies like Glaxo Smith Kline, IBM, Cingular, Marriott and many others encourage their employees to orient their careers around their talent.
Many of their development programmes start from the point of talent discovery and aligning future learning and development around harnessing and honing those talents.
They know it helps in the retention of good people, helps them be more productive and involved, and to manage their careers from an informed point of view.
They understand that people who align their careers with their natural abilities, skills, and experiences are going to be much more valuable in the long run.
Read More ...Imagine that you now know, exactly, what it is that you do best, and that you are now going to focus your learning and development on adding to and honing those natural talents.
How much of a boost to your career prospects is that going to give?
Also, imagine that you are up for promotion and you can tell your boss exactly how you fit into this new role, how you are perfectly equipped, because you are a 'natural' for the role, and that you won't only be able to do the job, you'll master it, and excel in it.
That's the impact that knowing your talents and choosing the right path can have for you.
The personal power you derive from knowing your natural talents is huge. You’re not trying to make yourself fit someone else’s opinion of what’s right for you.
You’re going to decide what’s right, and best for you, based on an objective assessment of the talents and abilities you were born with. And you'll be right, with the evidence to prove it !
Read More ...Discovering your talents involves completing a series of 'worksamples' (think of them as puzzles, but scientifically designed and calibrated) that measure and define your natural abilities.
How easily, and quickly, you complete each one defines how “naturally” that ability (talent) comes to you.
Given sufficient time you could complete all of the worksamples, but the timings distinguish between those that are natural (innate) to you and those which are learned skills.
The results are provided as a percentile.
That's impossible to say without knowing anything about your work.
In the largest study ever undertaken into organisational performance, The Gallup Organisation discovered that one of the key factors of top performers was that they do what they do best (using their talents) each and every day.
Matching the talents of people to the roles they perform is the foundation for many organisation's development of people and performance.
Knowing what you do best means that you'll be able to focus on those things more in your current role, or, where there is no scope for you to do that, to plan your way into a role that does make best use of your talents.
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How can knowing your natural talents, the things that you do best and are at the heart of your successes, or frustrations, not be to your advantage?
Knowing your innate talents and how to put them to best use is something that can only add to the richness of your life’s experiences.
Most people who discover their natural talents believe it to be a positive, and often, life-changing event, with the most common comment being, "now I get it !"
Skills are the things that you learn, or unlearn, over time.
The more you use a skill, the better you get at it (provided you also have an underlying talent to support the skill).
Your natural abilities are as much a part of you as the colour of your eyes and hair.
They developed in your early childhood and are enduring, a part of who you are, and won’t change over time.
Skills are learned faster or slower depending on the underlying innate talents.
That's why some people are naturally sporting, or musical, or mechanical and so on, and some people despite working really hard at acquiring a skill, never quite 'get it'.
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The neurological development that results in your innate talents is virtually complete by about the age of fourteen, at which point they are are pretty much fixed and capable of accurate measurement.
Because they are such a fundamental aspect of who you are, identifying what they are and the unique pattern you have makes it possible to determine how best they can be used in a work role or career path.
That makes your talents a reliable and accurate predictor of performance, in roles, now and into the future.
You can do anything you put your mind to, but you will learn faster, acquire new skills, perform and achieve more when you put your effort into learning, knowledge acquisition and career development aligned with your innate talents.
Two factors are considered when assessing accuracy – reliability and validity.
The most recent estimates of reliability showed a reliability range for the individual worksamples of .83 to .95. on a scale of 0.0 to 1.0, with 1.0 being perfect.
0.7 is generally held to be the minimum acceptable reliability measure.
Read More ...Peter Drucker famously said,
"Most people think they know what they are good at, they're usually wrong!
You may well know what talents you have. If you are already highly successful and satisfied in your work, you are most likely using those talents to create that success and fulfilment.
If you aren't enjoying yourself at work, or are feeling frustrated, or that you are capable of more, it's quite possible that you have unused, or underutilised talents.
There is a huge difference between knowing your talents and understanding how best to use them.
You may know you’re ‘good’ at something but are you aware of its significance in all aspects of your life?
Neither does being good at something mean you are using a natural talent!
