Developing your potential

Developing your potential

To achieve excellence, you must work to fulfill
 your won potential. Learn to build on your
 strengths and to develop the personal qualities
 that are the keys to performing well. 

                                         
                                            

Building key attributes

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.

                                                                               

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.

EVALUATING YOUR KEY ATTRIBUTES
ATTRIBUTES	How to assess yourself
AMBITION	Have you written down high and stretching target and planned how you are going to achieve them?
VISION	Have you formed a clear idea of where you want to be and what you want to be doing in five years’ time?
CONFIDENCE	Do you feel able to do anything that is needed now, do it well, and master new abilities and tasks as required?
ABILITY TO TAKE RISKS	Do you believe in your own ability to judge a risk as worth taking and to take your chances effectively?
DRIVE AND ENERGY	Can you bring full mental powers to bear on an issue, to decide on the right action, and see it through?
COMPETITIVE SPIRIT	Are you never satisfied until you have clearly won all the prizes against the best competition around?
SELF –CRITICISM	Are you a relentless perfectionist who constantly seeks to improve and to get others to do the same?
LEADERSHIP	Can you mobilize others to achieve group ambitions, as well as develop other leaders and bring them forward?

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.