September 17, 2007

Check your balance of skills - Part 2: Mapping Out Your Skills


Mapping Out Your Skills

Ok, grab a piece of paper, A3 would be ideal, no smaller than A4. Now find a nice pen, or three that you enjoy writing with. Lots of color not only looks great but can help the mind organise and categorise things better.

Now list the positive experiences and achievements in your career to date. Think too about experiences that you may have had in any part-time or casual work, any voluntary work that you may have undertaken, e.g for clubs, community groups and social organisations.

Step two requires you to look at each of those achievements and for each one think of what it was that you did that made it a success. Did you communicate more with people? Did you take the lead? Did you involve more people than normal? Did you 'just do it'?

And finally for this stage, for each achievement list what you learned. For instance, 'I learned that sometimes less than 100% is OK', or 'I learned the importance of giving clear guidance and instruction', or 'I learned that its important to be 100% committed to something', whatever.

In the next post I'll show you what to do with this information! :)



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