Now that you know your most dominant skills you have to find
a way to do the following:
- 1.
Build on those skills and make them as relevant
to your progress as possible: You need to ask yourself who are the best at what
I do? How can I get better? How do I embark upon training and development
processes that would enable me to make these skills cutting edge? Sometimes it
takes membership of a professional body to ensure that you keep up with developments
in your area of interest. Sometimes it takes moving in the right circles or
getting enough practice time.
- 2. The best operators in your area of interest can teach you some enduring lessons. Read their books if they have any, listen to them speak, literally sit at their feet if its possible. There is always something new that you learn from them. You need to commit yourself to learning if you want to improve.
- 3. After each cycle of learning there ought to be a time of implementing what you have learnt and seeing what effect it has on your improvement. The most difficult thing for us to do as human beings is to rate ourselves in the area of improvement. No person likes to admit weaknesses and wrong, when we do, these things often come hard. One ingenious way of rating our improvement processes is to get someone who would assess us dispassionately. There should be no bias. We should be able to distinguish between bias assessment and praise. This is not to say that we should not praise people who are working at improving themselves, rather we ought to be able to praise the effort to improve and at the same time score
