A talent is a natural ability or aptitude, to make something that would take others years to perfect, look simple. Talents are highly under estimated in the work environment, with all the focus being set on skills learnt, appose to skills naturally gained.Profile two: The Talent Profile
When looking at an individual as a whole, one cannot ignore this ‘compartment.’ Whether you are a natural sports person, have a healthy appetite for arts, or a flair for languages, a talent has a tendency to overflow into passion, and there for affects who you are as a person, and an employee.
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Hi Charl, I am obviously biased and subjective, but I enjoy every blog you post. It is informative, yet entertaining. I think it is a very dynamic blog. Nice information, nice to read, nice to look at.
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I agree whole heartedly. There is a legend about Picasso:
ReplyDeleteLegend has it that Pablo Picasso was sketching in the park when a bold woman approached him.
“It’s you — Picasso, the great artist! Oh, you must sketch my portrait! I insist.”
So Picasso agreed to sketch her. After studying her for a moment, he used a single pencil stroke to create her portrait. He handed the women his work of art.
“It’s perfect!” she gushed. “You managed to capture my essence with one stroke, in one moment. Thank you! How much do I owe you?”
“Five thousand dollars,” the artist replied.
“B-b-but, what?” the woman sputtered. “How could you want so much money for this picture? It only took you a second to draw it!”
To which Picasso responded, “Madame, it took me my entire life.”
I have heard it from so many people, because it happens to be when you have a passion for something, you often land up not gaining anything from it because you are so efficient at doing something and companies and the likes benefit from this. I thought this is appropriate.
Hi Jakes, absolutely appropriate. But how does one solve this issue?
ReplyDeleteI think that for someone like Picasso, he was so well known, not necessarily for his obscurity, but for being so good. I know many a people who are equally talented at what they do, but are still struggling to justify it. I don’t think it is something that the person who is "burdened” with the talent will be able to change, but rather that people who are responsible for managing such people are equally qualified to recognize such talents. If you don’t have that, then not even the biggest reward, a simple “thank you” or “well done”, will come their way. Would you agree?
ReplyDeleteHi, Again I agree. I try to get a better understanding of this specific issue. Nice of you to help me. I understand from Marianne that you are in a management position, how do you identify talent, manage talent and does it make a difference in your environment.
ReplyDeleteI think that so often people are required to do a specific job based on a specific design and that no-one is embracing people’s ability to think freely. We are “forced” to think alike and debate often leads to arguments, because no-one is willing to see the other side.
ReplyDeleteI hope that I can inspire people to do what they enjoy or have a passion for as you would say. I often think that people mistake creativity being exclusive for those in the arts. I believe that you can be creative in your own way and creativity does not only appear in visual graphics or musicality, but rather creative thinking can create “master pieces” in coding, or efficient practices. The bugger is getting the people working for you to believe they have “creativity”!
Me personally would ask them to research something for themselves, even though I have the answer. Come to their own conclusions and to justify them. That way, I am also encouraged to listen and perhaps learn from.
Hi, Great, I can use that effectively! But how do you identify the talent, and then motivate the talented?
ReplyDeleteIntuition. When you ask for people skills, I don't think it just means whether you can speak to them, but also understand them. Develop a feel for what people like by what they do outside of work. Often you find your clues outside the environment they are in to make a living. Things they do for fun.
ReplyDeleteSometimes you might know more about a person than they do about themselves. Purely because they have not identified a patern in their own lives. A friend of mine said before (someone who belonged to MENSA), that a genius is not just being clever, but by being able to identify a pattern really quickly.
Funny enough, this is the same person who introduced me to the Picasso story. Just goes to show, doesn't it.