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ObjectiveTo capitalize on your
strength,
and manage around
your weakness
To be what we are,
and to become what
we are capable of
becoming

Strength
• Consistent near perfect
performance in an
activity
• For an activity to be a
strength you must be
able to do it
consistently
• You do not have to
have strength in every
aspect of your role in
order to excel
• You will excel only by
maximizing your
strengths, never fixing
your weakness

S t re n gt h
Talent
Knowledge Skill

Knowledge
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
Procedural Knowledge

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 and
skill.
• But while quite different forms of experience
can generate the same knowledge.
• Every diffrenrt forms of experience generates
different 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 hate
Tells 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, or
Nationality,
is
YOU

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 Synaptic
Connections (as happens when you perfect a
talent with relevant skills and knowledge)
2. Keep Losing More of Your Extraneous
Connections (as also happens when you
focus on your talents and allow other
connections 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?

MILL1ON
One in a million

P Y
A
A Rise in Pay

TEMPER TURE
A Drop in Temperature

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 re n gt 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, Same
Brain Power, Same Willpower will end up with
a range in performance
• Talent is more important than
• Talent only can explain why, all other factors
being equal, some people excel in the role and
some 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
Talent
Attitudes
Habits
Drive

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 that
requires you to one of your nontalents - or
area of low skills or knowledge – a weakness is
born
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 Partner
What is impresssive is simply each person’s
willingness to admit their imperfections
It 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 you
a. How little anyone cares
b. How much respect you gain
c. How much better you feel

Confessing your
unfixable 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 acting
Keep 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 is
complacency
 Suspect Luck and
circumstances for
Success NOT Strength
 Feel strength is
Degrees, certificates as
proof.
 Natural Talents is
Strength
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
???

Everyday,
are you using your energy
OR
wasting your energy

Thank you