We each have a number of skills, strengths and talents that can be harnessed, however, we often find it hard to identify what these are and to articulate these to others.

Identifying Your Skills

1.  Firstly, list the skills and strengths that you currently believe you have and keep these for reference later on.

2.  Identify 4 people to ask about yourself. Choose 2 people who are friends or family and the other 2 who are current or former colleagues. Give each person their own column in the table below

This worksheet can help you to become more aware of your skills by keeping track of your findings from carefully selected people within your close network. Sometimes the best way to identify our skills is to ask others. Follow these steps to learn more about what you are good at:

3. Ask each person to sit down with you and to give you some thoughts on the following and jot these down: •  What do they think you enjoy doing? •  What have they seen you being good at? •  What are you brilliant at? •  What do they think you find easy to do? •  What have you done that may have seemed impressive?

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4.  Once you have spoken to each of your colleagues, friends and family compare and contrast the skills that they have mentioned, with those that you had identified initially:

•  Are they the same? •  If not – what’s different? •  Is there anything that has surprised you? If so – why? •  Do you see any patterns between what you enjoy and

what you are good at? •  Can you see how some of these skills and talents relate

to some of the roles you’ve held? •  Are there any other patterns that you see?

Hopefully through this exercise you will start to begin seeing yourself how others see you. You will also hopefully begin to understand the breadth of skills that you have to offer.

The next step is to think about where you might like to go with these skills e.g. how you would like to use them, where they fit in with your career and the role that is right for you.

You may wish to repeat the exercise again but with a different selection of people or a different set of questions. You may discover even more skills that you didn’t realise you had and can start feeling more confident about.

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