talent & career development

shrink the gap between strengths and weaknesses.

by bill reeb

there are many self-development books and advisors that proclaim that you should focus on your strengths, develop your strengths and don’t worry about your weaknesses.

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this is a great story to tell because it is one everyone wants to hear. who wants to be told that they should work on what they feel inadequate about in themselves or their abilities? in other words, it is easy to get people pumped up about spending time concentrating on what they do well and discard what they do poorly and leave it for someone else.
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it impacts performance, so use it.

by bill reeb

your best comes through, especially when you are calling upon fine motor skills, when you are relaxed. too much tension can quickly impact your mental, physical and emotional acuity.

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what i am referring to is finding the right level of tension to support performance at a heightened level. the problem is that there is a fine line between tension that pumps you up and tension that starts to drag you down.
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the same information is available in better ways.

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

i have never felt annual staff evaluations are effective.

they are forced meetings that lay on complaints and blame for past failures, many of which are not remembered or are vague memories at best. i have rarely seen resulting changes last more than two or three weeks before old habits are reverted to.

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i think these annual meetings are a waste of time. instead, i have been very successful with immediate and periodic evaluations, coupled with regular mentoring meetings.
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