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Achieve Greater Success Through Three Key Areas Of Performance

Written by: Howard Litwak

Article Overview: Do you want to be happier and more satisfied in your roles, business or personal? If you manage people, do you want them to be more effective and achieve higher performance? Learn how to apply three key areas of human performance to get you or your people to the next level.

Achieve Greater Success Through Three Key Areas Of Performance

Achieve Greater Success Through Three Key Areas of Performance

I had an interesting conversation the other day with a recruiter about whether people should just take a job to pay the bills, or if they should follow their talents and find a good fit doing something they really want.

Well, that one is up in the air. It depends on the individual situation. There may not be a right or a wrong.

What we did agree on is that if a person is using their natural talents, doing the right things in the right way for their own right reasons, they are much more effective. The truer a person is to their natural talents, motivations and natural behavior, the more satisfied they are and the happier they tend to be.

Using the right talents for the right reasons in the right way is being true to who you are.

The right talents means using inherent, natural talents and not trying to develop new ones. For example, some people are planners, some are stronger in results now oriented action.

The right reason means using those talents to achieve goals based on what motivates or inspires them.

The right way means turning thoughts and decisions into behavior that is natural and true to who you are and are not modified

Putting this another way, the more completely a person knows his or own talents, motivations, and how they prefer to behave, and the more true that individual is in applying them to what they do, why they do it and how they do it, the greater performance and satisfaction this individual finds in life.

Let us look at a real-life example of the what, why and how of an individual's performance: Take John; his greatest talent is for practical, real-world results oriented, get it done now behavior. He is driven to use this talent to profit and make money, and tends to do so in a quick decisive manner. This person is most likely well-suited for a sales, or hunter/ gatherer position.

Let us change his internal motivation and see what we get: John's greatest talent is for practical real world results oriented, get it done now behavior. He is driven to use this talent to help people and benefit others, and tends to do so in a quick and decisive manner.

In the first example, if I give John a monetary bonus for production, watch out- he will set production records. He is motivated by money.

In the second example, John has the same talents and behavior style, but is motivated by helping others as opposed to money. Money is good to have, but who can I help now?

These are the people in my Rotary club who volunteer to go to Haiti and help remote villagers, and go to Brazil to teach English for 2 months. See how a difference in motivation changes how effective a person will be in different situations?

If you are an employer and you were able to get greater performance and increased satisfaction by making sure that roles fit talents and motivating employees the right way, what would your business look like in 6 months?

As individuals, what would it mean to you to match your talents, internal motivations, and how you prefer to do things or behave with your roles? If you were happier in your business life, would that carry over to your personal life wheel? I bet it would.

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