To sign up for a SkillsFuture-funded workshop, visit this link.Purchase your profile & get a complimentary 15min consultation, visit this link.Everyone’s primary goal should be to identify one's talents, to intentionally develop & operate with them. Today, I am a Strengths Coach for professionals & students, imparting the very same insights that transformed & continually shapes my career. Valleys – when I struggled to use my #relator talent (as an engineer) & #achiever talent (as a manager in a big hierarchical organisation).Highlights - when I design intellectual property (#ideation, #strategic, #analytical) for a nationwide thrust for cyber wellness education.The profile describes & identifies very accurately the highlights & valleys of my career:

My top 5 StrengthsFinder talents are (1) Achiever (2) Ideation (3) Relator (4) Strategic (5) Analytical. Thus if any person is able to find, create or shape a job that maximises all of one's dominant talents – he/she will probably have found the lead to an ideal, all-consuming career - one marked with excellence, productivity & engagement. When successfully sustained over time, it carves a clear niche highlighting the best that one can offer to the world - a unique value-proposition. The service becomes better value for the client. When one operates with his/her 'talent', it taps into a naturally stronger ability & competence for the task. It expends less energy because it is not contrived - resulting in greater enthusiasm & energy. There are 34 StrengthsFinder talent themes that can be productively applied in careers.Using Clifton StrengthsFinder terminology, 'Talent' is defined as a naturally recurring pattern of thinking, feeling & behaviour. 'Unique value-add' happens when one does a job with his/her unique talents. The answer involves identifying how one can 'uniquely value-add' to customers & clients, then elevating the service to become a 'compelling draw' for clients. These are key questions that face the successful Independent Talent (IT) everyday. Q2: What sets our service apart from the rest of the market?.Q1: Why should customers & clients choose us?.The coaching will have sparked a potentially significant leap, helping him to contribute even more. career planning, people management & job redesign) Intentionally maximise contribution with job functions that bring out his best soft-skills (a.k.a.Selectively add more hard skills & knowledge to expand contribution into other areas (e.g. medical research).Strengths-coaching now empowers him to do more: What was formerly incidental, once brought into conscious space, paves the way for intentional development & application. The Strengths-Based Coaching helped him to become aware of what he did (unconsciously) to become so good at his job. X demonstrated an ability to use his unique soft-skills, coupled with his domain knowledge and skills as a medical doctor, to become an effective leader. X's excellence arose from his ability to apply contrasting talents effectively to meet the multi-faceted demands on a healthcare leader.ĭr. We could go on about the half-dozen combinations we explored during strengths-based executive coaching, but it was clear that Dr. No one had to wait for others before taking action to serve. There was nothing that happened that didn't concern anyone. The three personnel's actions demonstrated the amazing level of staff engagement in this place. There were many other patients in the healthcare facility, all presumably waiting. But his hospitality spoke volumes about how psychologically invested he was in his job. THAT was no ordinary security guard (not even an employee of the organisation, merely contracted to provide security services). X, two other staff approached me to see how they could assist me (they were obviously paying attention to my 'non patient-like' body language) A Unique Work Culture X on my mobile.ĭuring the 10min waiting time before I met Dr. X, checked for his presence in the room, before allowing me to contact Dr. Surprisingly, he walked me personally to the door of Dr. X' (certainly not your usual visitor request in a healthcare facility). The security guard initiated surprising hospitality-like eye contact and asked me what I needed ( not part of his security job!). I walked into a busy healthcare facility in the heartland of Singapore.

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