Week 2 – Claim It Gain awareness and appreciation of your strengths
Lesson 7 What Does Leveraging a Talent Feel and Look Like?
In the early 1950s Donald Clifton began a study to determine the most natural thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of “the best of the best”. He quickly discovered that our talents do more than make us unique individuals. Our greatest talents also serve as our best opportunities for excellence and success when they are intentionally leveraged. Sure, skills are important, and knowledge is vital, but Strengths requires something more important and powerful than skill and knowledge combined – Talent. Once we discover the talents in individuals we begin to recognise where investing time and energy, skills and knowledge are best placed to develop that talent into a Strength.
Activity What does leveraging your talents feel like?
In the space provided, I want you to sign your name three times as quickly and consistently as possible.
Now swap hands and repeat the exercise.
Write down 2-3 words describing what it was like the first time you did this exercise
Now note down 2-3 words to describe what it was like the second time you did this exercise.
Optional Activity Read the case study What does it look like? A lens on our 800% Potential
https://www.jasonbiggs.nz/blog/2021/2/13/a-case-study-in-developing-talent
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