COMMERCE 3S03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mike Krzyzewski, Emotional Contagion, Warren Buffett
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Case example: tami heim, president of nelson publishers in nashville boasted her potential by focusing on her natural capabilities. Strength: arises from natural talent that is supported and reinforced with both learned knowledge and skills. Talent: the innate aptitude or ability, naturally recurring patterns of thought, feeling or behaviour. Once we recognize our innate talents, we can turn them into strengths by consciously developing and enhancing them. Until talents are homed in on, they are just aspects of our potential. Skills: the accumulated knowledge that has been formalized into behaviour steps needed to adequately perform an activity. Its important to recognize that strengths express themselves though tangible skills. Skills are the final outcome from developing your strengths. Most (cid:373)a(cid:374)agers do(cid:374)"t realize their (cid:449)eak(cid:374)esses u(cid:374)til so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e poi(cid:374)ts the(cid:373) out. A good place to start is by using questionnaires as an instrument to gain insight. The importance of strengths came about with positive psychology, founded by martin seligman in 1998.