developing your talents and skills
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Developing your
Talents & SkillsThe PEAFF Strategies
• It is quite common to hear that some people are born with certain special talents or skills.
• And we consider them LUCKY!
• But what about us - simple mortals?
Developing your talents & skillsIntroduction
• Success and special skills are not a matter of luck, opportunity or myth.
• It is important to bear in mind that SUCCESS and SKILLS are all about putting efforts and energy to improve ourselves and to achieve our goals.
Developing your talents & skillsSuccess & Skills
• Many successful people have mastered important life or business skills to achieve a remarkable position in life.
• And their main secret is:– Mastering the right skill
through hard studying and training to achieve a goal that would fit their dreams and life expectations.
Developing your talents & skillsImportant
• When we want to master a specific skill we need to deal with two elements:– Theory and– Practice.
Developing your talents & skillsMastering a Skill – Theory and Practice
• It is a set of principles or a system of ideas intended to explain something.
• Theory is important because it is based on concepts and experience that were tried before.
• It helps us to avoid wasting our time doing what is wrong.
Developing your talents & skillsTheory – Definition & Features
• It is the application or use of an idea, belief or method.
• When practicing we are implementing all the acquired knowledge from Theory.
• And it is the only way to verify if we really know what we have learned.
Developing your talents & skillsPractice - Definition & Features
• According to a best-selling author Greg Wingard our mind goes through 06 steps when mastering a skill:– 03 Theory Steps,– 03 Practice Steps.
Developing your talents & skillsTheory & Practice - Methodology
Developing your talents & skillsTheory & Practice – The 06 Steps
Theory
Unawareness:You are aware that there is a
skill to be learned.
Awareness:You realize you need to learn
that skill.
Clarification:You understand what you
need to do differently.
Practice
Awkwardness:You attempt the new
behavior and find it difficult..
Familiarity:The new behavior is easier
but still not automatic.
Automatic:You no longer think about the
behavior but simply do it.
• But the Theory & Practice Methodology demands the support of 05 important elements:– The PEAFF.
Developing your talents & skills05 Main Strategies – PEAFF
Developing your talents & skillsThe PEAFF Strategy
PEAFFP – Planning
We must plan everything ahead.
E – EvaluationWe should have a mentor/coach to evaluate our performance.
A – AwarenessWe must be conscious of what we are doing.
F – FocusWe must break things down into pieces to better focus.
F – FaithTo improve our skills, we need to have the faith to keep going.
Developing your talents & skillsPEAFF – Tips
Don´t let negative feelings to destroy your motivation.
Adjust your perspective
It is important to be objective.
Do, Observe, Correct
PracticeDOC
Perseverance
Evaluation
Awareness
Focus
Faith
Main tips to Manage the PEAFF
Developing your talents & skillsPEAFF – Tips
You can’t take on everything. Choose
only one or two skills.
Start Small
Perseverance
Evaluation
Awareness
Focus
Faith
Main tips to manage the PEAFF
You always need to ask yourself. Is your
goal possible?
Check the Possibilities
Developing your talents & skillsPEAFF – Tips
Find someone who has mastered the skill to offer some support.
Get the righthelp
Perseverance
Evaluation
Awareness
Focus
Faith
Main tips to manage the PEAFF
We need to make sure the skill is really
relevant.
Make sure It is needed
• Choose a skill that will offer the necessary benefits for your life and career.
• Slip the skill into smaller, manageable activities.
• Think about your performance and results look for new ways to improve it.
Developing your talents & skillsPrinciples to Remember - DO
• Try to learn in a vacuum - ask others for guidance and feedback
• Rely solely on your boss for advice - you may want to involve someone who isn't responsible for evaluating you
• Assume it's going to happen overnight - it usually takes at least six months to develop a new skill.
Developing your talents & skillsPrinciples to Remember – DON’T
• We have the capacity to learn and to implement new skills in our life.
• But we need to be reasonable and analyse what kind of demands such skills will request from us.
• Developing a skill is all a matter of being aware of its benefits, level of compromise and investment.
• And don’t forget that our value in the business world is directly tied to the number of skills we have been able to master.
Developing your talents & skillsConclusion
• We would like to thank the following writers for their expressive contribution for this presentation:
– Amy Gallo, Harvard Business Review - How to Master a New Skill.
– Geoffrey James – How to Master any Skills.
– Margarita Tartakovsky - 3 Ways to Master Any New Skill.
– Greg Wingard - The Red Bucket Strategy.
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