Developing your potential
To achieve excellence, you must work to fulfillyour won potential. Learn to build on your
strengths and to develop the personal qualities
that are the keys to performing well.
Human beings have many talents that can
be turned into engines of success. Yet The
best performance requires more than mere
talent: it involves developing a number of
important personal strength, including
determination, vision, and confidence.
be turned into engines of success. Yet The
best performance requires more than mere
talent: it involves developing a number of
important personal strength, including
determination, vision, and confidence.
assessing yourself
You know what comes easily to you, and
these strength can be developed fairly rapidly.
Yet your natural powers may not be enough.
To reach your full potential, you need to
develop all the key attributes. For example,
a lack of confidence is a general barrier to
advancing in business management. If you
are someone who has fillings of low
self-esteem, or you lake the courage of
maximize your self-confidence. Begin
your self-development by looking
objectively at your abilities and were
they most need to be improved.
You know what comes easily to you, and
these strength can be developed fairly rapidly.
Yet your natural powers may not be enough.
To reach your full potential, you need to develop all the key attributes. For example,
a lack of confidence is a general barrier to
advancing in business management. If you
are someone who has fillings of low
self-esteem, or you lake the courage of
maximize your self-confidence. Begin
your self-development by looking
objectively at your abilities and were
they most need to be improved.
EVALUATING YOUR KEY ATTRIBUTES
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ATTRIBUTES
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How to assess yourself
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AMBITION
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Have you written down high and stretching target and planned how you are going to achieve them?
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VISION
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Have you formed a clear idea of where you want to be and what you want to be doing in five years’ time?
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CONFIDENCE
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Do you feel able to do anything that is needed now, do it well, and master new abilities and tasks as required?
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ABILITY TO TAKE RISKS
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Do you believe in your own ability to judge a risk as worth taking and to take your chances effectively?
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DRIVE AND ENERGY
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Can you bring full mental powers to bear on an issue, to decide on the right action, and see it through?
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COMPETITIVE SPIRIT
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Are you never satisfied until you have clearly won all the prizes against the best competition around?
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SELF –CRITICISM
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Are you a relentless perfectionist who constantly seeks to improve and to get others to do the same?
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LEADERSHIP
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Can you mobilize others to achieve group ambitions, as well as develop other leaders and bring them forward?
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ASKING OTHERS
If you are unsure how you rate in a particular area, such as your ability to lead, get objective feedback from somebody else. Once you have all the facts, you can create a vision of where you want to be in the future. Draw up a mission plan of how to get there.
GETTING FEEDBACK
Ask a mentor, colleague, or friend to check whether you have exaggerated your strengths all under-played your weaknesses.


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