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July 1, 2014

How to achieve your 2014 goals — Lessons from 2014 World Cup

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Goal getting lessons from the 2014 World Cup


If you’ve been following the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, you’ll observe that the second half is played differently from the first and most of the goals are scored in the second half.


In the first half of the tournament, each team tries to get acquainted with their field position and also study the game plan of the challenging team.


However, the second half is played with a lot of determination and often separates the men from the boys. Teams that win in the 2014 World Cup are strong, resilient, and score goals.


The second half

January 1 to June 30, 2014 is the first half of this year, the second half starts this July 1, 2014. You have another 6 months to challenge laziness, complacency, and procrastination team on the field of your dreams and play with hard work, relentlessness, and a lot of push if you want to score your goals for 2014.


How to achieve your goals in the second half of 2104

To win when referee called time blows the whistle on December 31, 2014, here are three things you must avoid:


Don’t pass the ball to the opponent

This is no-brainer but it happens. If you want to reach your goals for this year, make sure you don’t pass the ball to laziness, complacency, and procrastination, the trio play too well to keep you from reaching your goals for this year. Hold on to the ball and pass it to your team members: hard work, relentlessness, and a lot of push.


Don’t let the opponent score first

In soccer, you get demoralized when the opposing team is leading in the second half. You want to make sure you score your first one or two goals to boost your team’s confidence. Make sure you win some little victories this month on the way to your goal for 2014, it will boost your confidence.


Don’t relax until the final whistle

If you are currently winning in 2014, remember that it’s not over until it is all over. You must keep up on advancing to score another goal and not relax your game plan. Work hard, play hard, and score as many goals as you can until you hear the final whistle on December 31, 2014. Good luck!


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Published on July 01, 2014 00:43

June 27, 2014

GE is Going Back to the Basics of Leadership Development

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The basics of leadership development


The VP of executive development and chief learning officer (CLO) at GE, Raghu Krishnamoorthy, said the conglomerate is going back to basics when it comes to leadership development.


Speaking to HR magazine at The Economist Talent Management Summit, Krishnamoorthy said the new leaders “might not be the person with the cognitive skills or the [qualifications], It’s more about the hunger to win, the deep sense of accountability and the ability to learn constantly.”


According to him, today’s business needs a leader who can deal with the pace of change. He highlighted how these New Model Leaders are different from the leader of old.



“The leader of old used to compete to win, the leader of the new collaborates to win”
“The leader of old fitted in; the leader of new values diversity.”
“The leader of old used command and control; the leader of new connects and inspires.”

To embed this new way of thinking at GE, the company is introducing new tools, new culture and new “leadership muscle”.


New tools like GE’s ‘Fastworks’ system will introduce lean start-up principles into the organization, and help GE to respond quicker to consumer demands and market changes.


This idea of “putting a small company body into a big company” requires a refreshed culture and a new type of leader. It requires “a new set of beliefs that embrace responsiveness and raise the fact you need to delegate to the fringes of the organization.


The leader of old used to compete to win, the leader of the new collaborates to win — Raghu Krishnamoorthy


To develop the kind of leaders, GE is focusing more on experiential learning.  Krishnamoorthy said “Learning is not just a classroom experience—it’s available to you all the time, anywhere.


We are continuing to focus on skill building but also have to factor in things like how do you teach people courage, trust and empowerment.”


This article was originally posted by Katie Jacobs at www.hrmagazine.co.uk


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Published on June 27, 2014 13:08

June 24, 2014

21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership #4 ��� The Law of Navigation

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Irrefutable Laws of Leadership #8���The law of navigation


The Law of Navigation is the fourth of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. It states that anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course.


In 1911, two groups of explorers set out on a mission to be the first in history to reach the South Pole. One group was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the other group by Robert F. Scott, a British Naval Officer who had previously done some exploring.


The former obeyed the Law of navigation, the latter, though experienced, violated the law and you can guess who made history.


Here is how each lead-explorer navigated for their team and what you can learn from them as you navigate for your team:






Plan
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen
British Explorer Robert F. Scott


Mode of Transportation
Studied the methods of the Eskimos to determine that their best course of action is to transport all equipment and supplies by dogsled
Used motorized sledges and ponies. The motors on the sledges stopped working only five days from the trip; all the ponies were killed because of frigid temperature


Team
Chose expert skiers and dog handlers when recruiting his team.
Made a last minute��decision��to take long a fifth man, even though they had prepared enough supplies for only four


Workload
The dogs did most of the work as the group traveled, this affords both the dogs and the men plenty of time for daily rest
The ponies��didn’t��fare well, the team members ended up hauling 200 pounds sledges


Supplies
Located and stocked supply depots along all the intended routes
Supply depots were inadequately stocked, too far apart, and often poorly marked. Team was always low on food and water


Equipment and Gears
Equipped his people with the best gear possible
Clothes were so poorly designed, all of the men developed frostbite, everyone became snow-blind because of the inadequate goggles Scott had supplied


Worst Problems Experienced
An infected tooth that one man had to have extracted
Team members starved and suffered from Scurvy, a team member sank into a stupor and died, another member purposely walked out into a blizzard


Results
Beat Scott���s team to the South Pole by more than a month
Found the Norwegian flag flapping on arriving the South Pole, Scott and his team died on along the way on their return trip���still 150 miles from their base




Though Mr. Scott was a courageous man with a previous experience, he lacked leadership ability and thus, violated the law of navigation.


How to apply the Law of Navigation to your leadership

Before they take their team on a journey, here are what great navigators do to lead by the law of navigation



See the whole trip in your mind ��before leaving the dock
Have a vision for getting to the destination
Understand what it will take to get there
Know what your team will need to be successful
Recognize obstacles long before the appear on the horizon
Draw on past experience: every past success and failure comes with valuable information and wisdom, learn from them.
Examine the conditions before making commitments: Count the cost before making commitments for yourself and for others
Listen to what others have to say: you don���t have all the answers, get ideas from other sources. Before Roald Amundsen���s expedition to the South Pole, he had learned from a group of Native Americans about warm clothing and��Arctic��survival techniques
Make sure your conclusions represent both faith and fact: you need to have faith but also be realistic by not ignoring the facts, good navigators know how to balance both

If the leaders can���t navigate the people through rough waters, he is liable to sink the ship��� ��� John C. Maxwell


How to plan ahead
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leadership law of navigation – how to plan ahead



Action points to implement the Law of Navigation

To be a good navigator:



Make it a regular practice to reflect on your positive and negative experiences.
For some major project or task that you are currently responsible for, draw on your past experience, hold intentional conversations with experts and team members to gather ideas, and examine current conditions that could impact the success of your efforts.
If you are a person of faith, start gathering facts and stats from trusted sources. If you are person who always want to see the numbers, start developing your intuition.

If you know a friend who will benefit from this information, why not forward it to a friend!


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Published on June 24, 2014 09:37

21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership #4 — The Law of Navigation

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Irrefutable Laws of Leadership #8—The law of navigation


The Law of Navigation is the fourth of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. It states that anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course.


In 1911, two groups of explorers set out on a mission to be the first in history to reach the South Pole. One group was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the other group by Robert F. Scott, a British Naval Officer who had previously done some exploring.


The former obeyed the Law of navigation, the latter, though experienced, violated the law and you can guess who made history.


Here is how each lead-explorer navigated for their team and what you can learn from them as you navigate for your team:






Plan
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen
British Explorer Robert F. Scott


Mode of Transportation
Studied the methods of the Eskimos to determine that their best course of action is to transport all equipment and supplies by dogsled
Used motorized sledges and ponies. The motors on the sledges stopped working only five days from the trip; all the ponies were killed because of frigid temperature


Team
Chose expert skiers and dog handlers when recruiting his team.
Made a last minute decision to take long a fifth man, even though they had prepared enough supplies for only four


Workload
The dogs did most of the work as the group traveled, this affords both the dogs and the men plenty of time for daily rest
The ponies didn’t fare well, the team members ended up hauling 200 pounds sledges


Supplies
Located and stocked supply depots along all the intended routes
Supply depots were inadequately stocked, too far apart, and often poorly marked. Team was always low on food and water


Equipment and Gears
Equipped his people with the best gear possible
Clothes were so poorly designed, all of the men developed frostbite, everyone became snow-blind because of the inadequate goggles Scott had supplied


Worst Problems Experienced
An infected tooth that one man had to have extracted
Team members starved and suffered from Scurvy, a team member sank into a stupor and died, another member purposely walked out into a blizzard


Results
Beat Scott’s team to the South Pole by more than a month
Found the Norwegian flag flapping on arriving the South Pole, Scott and his team died on along the way on their return trip—still 150 miles from their base




Though Mr. Scott was a courageous man with a previous experience, he lacked leadership ability and thus, violated the law of navigation.


How to apply the Law of Navigation to your leadership

Before they take their team on a journey, here are what great navigators do to lead by the law of navigation



See the whole trip in your mind  before leaving the dock
Have a vision for getting to the destination
Understand what it will take to get there
Know what your team will need to be successful
Recognize obstacles long before the appear on the horizon
Draw on past experience: every past success and failure comes with valuable information and wisdom, learn from them.
Examine the conditions before making commitments: Count the cost before making commitments for yourself and for others
Listen to what others have to say: you don’t have all the answers, get ideas from other sources. Before Roald Amundsen’s expedition to the South Pole, he had learned from a group of Native Americans about warm clothing and Arctic survival techniques
Make sure your conclusions represent both faith and fact: you need to have faith but also be realistic by not ignoring the facts, good navigators know how to balance both

If the leaders can’t navigate the people through rough waters, he is liable to sink the ship” — John C. Maxwell


How to plan ahead
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leadership law of navigation – how to plan ahead



Action points to implement the Law of Navigation

To be a good navigator:



Make it a regular practice to reflect on your positive and negative experiences.
For some major project or task that you are currently responsible for, draw on your past experience, hold intentional conversations with experts and team members to gather ideas, and examine current conditions that could impact the success of your efforts.
If you are a person of faith, start gathering facts and stats from trusted sources. If you are person who always want to see the numbers, start developing your intuition.

If you know a friend who will benefit from this information, why not forward it to a friend!


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June 16, 2014

The 21 Irrrefutable Laws of Leadership #8 ��� The Law of Intuition

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leaders evaluate everything with a leadership bias


The 8th law��of�� The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership����� The Law of Intuition states that “leaders evaluate everything with a leadership bias.”


Great leaders look at things differently, they evaluate everything with a leadership bias, as a result, they instinctively, almost automatically, know what to do when it comes to leading.


People born with natural leadership ability are especially strong in the area of leadership intuition. You might not be intuitive in the area of leadership but you are intuitive in your area of strength.


With Intuition, Leadership is More than Facts

Although facts are important, the Law of Intuition depends on so much more than just the facts. The Law of Intuition is based on facts plus instinct plus other intangible factors.


My practice is to make a leadership decision after gathering 40 ��� 60 percent of the information that can be obtained, and then use experience to make up the difference ��� Colin Powell


Intuition come from two things: from natural ability (person���s areas of strength) and from learned skills.


With Intuition, Leaders are Readers

To develop your leadership intuition, you have to be able to read differently. To read differently, you have to think differently. With intuition, leaders are able to read situations, trends, resources, people, and themselves.


Leaders are Readers of Their Situation

Intuition helps leaders to be aware of their environment. They are able to pick up details that might elude others. They have the ability to ‘smell things’ in their organization. They can sense people���s attitudes and they know the situation before they have all the facts.


Leaders are Readers of Trends

Instead of focusing on their day-to-day work or on effectiveness and efficiency, leaders, by intuition, look years ahead. They can discern where the organization is going. Their intuition tells them when something is happening, and conditions are changing.


Leaders are Readers of Their Resources

Leaders think in terms of resources and how to maximize them. In the table below, you will observe that leaders think differently in the way they see resources:





People
How they think when they encounter challenges


A good worker
What can I do to help?


A high achiever
How can I solve this problem?


A peak performer
What can I do to reach the next level so that I can overcome this?


A leader
Who is the best person to take this on? What resources do we possess that will help us? What will this take financially? How can I encourage my team to achieve this?



Leaders are continually aware of what they have at their disposal.


Leaders are Readers of People

Intuition helps leaders to sense what is happening among people. Great leaders can sense what is what is happening in a room���whether there���s curiosity, doubt, hope, reluctance, anticipation, or relief.


Leaders are Readers of Themselves

Good leaders know not only their own strengths and blind spots, skills and weaknesses, they also know their current state of mind.


Action Points to Develop Your Leadership Intuition

Trust your intuition. Begin by working with your areas of strength and natural talents.
Develop the ability to read people. Read books on relationships. Engage more in conversations. Watch and observe people��and see if you can sense when they are feeling upset, happy, confused, or angry.
Train yourself on how to mobilize people to action. Think about your current project and goals. Now imagine how you can accomplish them without doing any of the work yourself except for recruiting, empowering, inspiring, and motivating others.

If you are reading, let me know how this is helping you. If you are a new subscriber, you can visit the archive to see what you’ve missed. If a friend shared this timely information with you, you can subscribe here.


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Published on June 16, 2014 07:44

The 21 Irrrefutable Laws of Leadership #8 — The Law of Intuition

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leaders evaluate everything with a leadership bias


The 8th law of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — The Law of Intuition— states that “leaders evaluate everything with a leadership bias.”


Great leaders look at things differently, they evaluate everything with a leadership bias, as a result, they instinctively, almost automatically, know what to do when it comes to leading.


People born with natural leadership ability are especially strong in the area of leadership intuition. You might not be intuitive in the area of leadership but you are intuitive in your area of strength.


With Intuition, Leadership is More than Facts

Although facts are important, the Law of Intuition depends on so much more than just the facts. The Law of Intuition is based on facts plus instinct plus other intangible factors.


My practice is to make a leadership decision after gathering 40 – 60 percent of the information that can be obtained, and then use experience to make up the difference — Colin Powell


Intuition come from two things: from natural ability (person’s areas of strength) and from learned skills.


With Intuition, Leaders are Readers

To develop your leadership intuition, you have to be able to read differently. To read differently, you have to think differently. With intuition, leaders are able to read situations, trends, resources, people, and themselves.


Leaders are Readers of Their Situation

Intuition helps leaders to be aware of their environment. They are able to pick up details that might elude others. They have the ability to ‘smell things’ in their organization. They can sense people’s attitudes and they know the situation before they have all the facts.


Leaders are Readers of Trends

Instead of focusing on their day-to-day work or on effectiveness and efficiency, leaders, by intuition, look years ahead. They can discern where the organization is going. Their intuition tells them when something is happening, and conditions are changing.


Leaders are Readers of Their Resources

Leaders think in terms of resources and how to maximize them. In the table below, you will observe that leaders think differently in the way they see resources:





People
How they think when they encounter challenges


A good worker
What can I do to help?


A high achiever
How can I solve this problem?


A peak performer
What can I do to reach the next level so that I can overcome this?


A leader
Who is the best person to take this on? What resources do we possess that will help us? What will this take financially? How can I encourage my team to achieve this?



Leaders are continually aware of what they have at their disposal.


Leaders are Readers of People

Intuition helps leaders to sense what is happening among people. Great leaders can sense what is what is happening in a room—whether there’s curiosity, doubt, hope, reluctance, anticipation, or relief.


Leaders are Readers of Themselves

Good leaders know not only their own strengths and blind spots, skills and weaknesses, they also know their current state of mind.


Action Points to Develop Your Leadership Intuition

Trust your intuition. Begin by working with your areas of strength and natural talents.
Develop the ability to read people. Read books on relationships. Engage more in conversations. Watch and observe people and see if you can sense when they are feeling upset, happy, confused, or angry.
Train yourself on how to mobilize people to action. Think about your current project and goals. Now imagine how you can accomplish them without doing any of the work yourself except for recruiting, empowering, inspiring, and motivating others.

If you are reading, let me know how this is helping you. If you are a new subscriber, you can visit the archive to see what you’ve missed. If a friend shared this timely information with you, you can subscribe here.


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April 25, 2014

Leadercast Now, an Everyday Leadership Development App for Leaders

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Leadercast Now is a premium on-demand leadership development platform designed to help you be a leader worth following.


Growing as a leader can be extremely difficult given the current state of leadership development resources: Paid resources are often slow, cumbersome, and irrelevant to your life. Free resources exist, but are typically unorganized, incomplete, and lack quality that you need.


This is why Leadercast Now is different from anything else on the market.


Why Invest in Leadercast Now?

For the past 15 years, Leadercast has been bringing together world-renowned thought leaders in various disciplines each year to share messages on leadership to more than 100, 000 viewers worldwide. This one-day event is packed with wisdom, lessons, and new trends in leadership are broadcasted LIVE from Atlanta, GA to more than 700 sites world-wide.


But the question leaders often asked after this incredible one-day leadership event is: “How do I translate what I’ve experienced in to real, everyday leadership?” Leadercast Now was created to answer this question and it is an everyday leadership development environment designed to help you become a leader worth following.


Leadercast Now is To-the-Point

At the heart of Leadercast Now are short, high-impact video segments that will inspire and challenge you. Most of the videos are five minutes or less so that you can get to the meat of the content with minimal time.


Though the videos are short, they are very significant because Leadercast Now has partnered with past and present Leadercast speakers as well as new content providers to bring you high-impact content to develop the leader in you.


Leadercast Now is Actionable

As you may have already known, simply watching content-heavy leadership training that are being used to develop leaders for the 21st century have become dated and redundant.  With Leadercast Now, you will be able to put what you learn into practice to bring about real change and growth.


These short-format, high-impact  videos are coupled with immediate actionable steps to help you bridge the gap between learning and life. These action challenges will help you step into what you’ve learned in order to begin to take those first steps


Leadercast Now is Unlimited Access

With Leadercast Now, you are not forced to learn and grow in one particular way. In our current fast-paced and constantly moving culture, Leadercast Now will enable you to grow in those moments that you want to—no matter when or where that may be.


The Leadercast Now platform is leadership development your schedule as you will have access to leadership development on all of your devices—phone, tablet, and or computer.


When Will Leadercast Now be Available?

Leadercast Now will launch on May 09, 2014 and you can try this premium on-demand leadership development platform for free. If you sign up on May 9, 2014, you will receive a free two-week trial without any strings attached.


You don’t have to purchase Leadercast now during Leadercast 2014 event, but there is an event day only incentive for attendees that purchase Leadercast Now during the Leadercast 2014 event on May 9, 2014.


We, at the SajiGroup, believe that everyone should have access to this type of learning and you can click here for instructions on how to start your free trial right now.


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March 28, 2014

World-renowned Leaders to Speak at Leadercast Baltimore

Contact: Saji Ijiyemi

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  TwoColor Gray Logo 300x69 World renowned Leaders to Speak at Leadercast Baltimore



Baltimore, MD—Community business leaders can access the knowledge and experience of world-renowned leaders by attending Leadercast Baltimore at Patapsco Business Center in Linthicum Heights, MD on Friday May 9, 2014.


The Leadercast event is broadcast LIVE from Atlanta, Ga. to hundreds of sites around the world, including Baltimore. This year’s speaker lineup includes:



Andy Stanley, Leadership author and communicator
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate & human rights activist live from Cape Town, South Africa
Malcolm Gladwell, Journalist and best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Outliers
Randall Wallace, Screenwriter, director, producer & songwriter (Braveheart, Secretariat)
Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP
Laura Schroff, Former ad sale executive and best-selling author of An Invisible Thread
Dr. Henry Cloud, Clinical psychologist and leadership consultant
Simon Sinek, Best-selling author of Start with Why and leadership expert
Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States (2001-2009) via exclusive video interview

Last year, over 100,000 leaders from 14 countries attended Leadercast. Now, in its 15th year, this full day, experiential conference is on track to reach it’s largest audience to date.


Leadercast Baltimore is an opportunity to network with other leaders in the area, establish great connections, and get great insights in an environment focused on how to grow yourself and your leadership. Although very focused on leadership, this one-day transcends the topic and really shows you how to lead in life.”


Tickets for this premiere event are available at www.leadercastbaltimore.eventbrite.com; the ticket includes the webcast, supporting materials, continental breakfast, lunch and snacks during the day. Seating is limited.


Leadercast Baltimore exists to positively change the way the world thinks about leadership. This year’s theme—Beyond You—challenges leaders to focus outward rather than inward. Experience Leadercast live on May 9, 2014 and discover what it means to be a leader worth following.


For more information about Leadercast Baltimore, visit www.sajigroup.com/leadercast. For information, call (240) 205-3074 or email info@sajigroup.com .


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January 8, 2014

Live Life By Design: Day 4 ��� Find Your Natural Talents And Abilities

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Live Life by Design ��� Find Your Natural Talents


If you want to live your life by design and not by default, you must take the time to find your natural talents, your innate abilities, and your unique gifts and passions.


Your natural talents are your natural gifts and abilities to be good at something, especially without being taught. They are ���what comes most naturally to you and makes you feel authentic.���


Most of the people we celebrate today are living their life by design, they simply discover their natural talents, develop their unique gifts, and deliver them to the world to become a celebrity.


They excel, not necessarily because of their knowledge, education, or experience, but because they made an effort to develop who and what they already are.


I originally wanted to study Medicine in college but was accepted to study Microbiology because I did not score enough in the entrance examination. After my first degree, I traveled to Europe to get a Master���s degree in Science.


It is relatively easy to describe our acquired expertise, but most of us struggle when asked to describe our natural talents. ��� Tom Rath, StrengthsFinder 2.0


After my graduation, I have had several jobs in the Science and Information Technology (IT) industry.��However, my natural ability is in speaking, teaching, training, and coaching.


It is natural for me to inspire, motivate, and help people to discover their natural talents and maximize their potential. After some serious conversation with myself, and decided it is time to live my life by design. I started investing my time, money, and energy into developing my communication skills instead of spending time, money, and energy on what I am not naturally good at. The effort has been paying off ever since.


In StrengthsFinder 2.0, Tom Rath said ���the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become what we are not,��� this is not far from the truth considering the number of people who hop from one job to the other and the number of times people change their career path in their lifetime.


To live your life by design, you have to find your natural talents and then acquire the necessary knowledge, education and skill to develop your talent, hone your gift, and be the best you.


In his book Finding Your Element, Sir Ken Robinson said, ���Human resources are like the earth���s natural resources: they���re often buried beneath the surface and you have to make an effort to discover them.���


If you desire to create your life and live your life by design, make an effort to find your natural talents, resurrect your innate abilities, and discover your gifts. It is the way to go.


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Published on January 08, 2014 07:29

Live Life By Design: Day 4 — Find Your Natural Talents And Abilities

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Live Life by Design — Find Your Natural Talents


If you want to live your life by design and not by default, you must take the time to find your natural talents, your innate abilities, and your unique gifts and passions.


Your natural talents are your natural gifts and abilities to be good at something, especially without being taught. They are “what comes most naturally to you and makes you feel authentic.”


Most of the people we celebrate today are living their life by design, they simply discover their natural talents, develop their unique gifts, and deliver them to the world to become a celebrity.


They excel, not necessarily because of their knowledge, education, or experience, but because they made an effort to develop who and what they already are.


I originally wanted to study Medicine in college but was accepted to study Microbiology because I did not score enough in the entrance examination. After my first degree, I traveled to Europe to get a Master’s degree in Science.


It is relatively easy to describe our acquired expertise, but most of us struggle when asked to describe our natural talents. — Tom Rath, StrengthsFinder 2.0


After my graduation, I have had several jobs in the Science and Information Technology (IT) industry. However, my natural ability is in speaking, teaching, training, and coaching.


It is natural for me to inspire, motivate, and help people to discover their natural talents and maximize their potential. After some serious conversation with myself, and decided it is time to live my life by design. I started investing my time, money, and energy into developing my communication skills instead of spending time, money, and energy on what I am not naturally good at. The effort has been paying off ever since.


In StrengthsFinder 2.0, Tom Rath said “the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become what we are not,” this is not far from the truth considering the number of people who hop from one job to the other and the number of times people change their career path in their lifetime.


To live your life by design, you have to find your natural talents and then acquire the necessary knowledge, education and skill to develop your talent, hone your gift, and be the best you.


In his book Finding Your Element, Sir Ken Robinson said, “Human resources are like the earth’s natural resources: they’re often buried beneath the surface and you have to make an effort to discover them.”


If you desire to create your life and live your life by design, make an effort to find your natural talents, resurrect your innate abilities, and discover your gifts. It is the way to go.


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Published on January 08, 2014 07:29