So, how do you know what advantages you have?
After knowing your own advantages, how to give full play to your own advantages and work based on your own advantages?
The method of excavating personal advantages by recalling past experiences is called achievement event analysis.
First of all, let's talk about what an achievement event is.
We have a naughty classmate who recalls one of his achievements in middle school:
"At that time, our head teacher was very strict, always criticizing us, making stand as punishment at every turn, and physical education class didn't let us in, so all of them changed to self-study. I was the monitor and thought I should do something. Later, I found many classmates to write a joint letter, sued the principal, and got the class teacher down. "
After telling this story, all the friends in the same group laughed. The coach asked with a smile, what advantages do you think this shows you?
He thought for a moment and said, "This shows that I am quite capable of leadership. You know, this thing seems to be purely courageous, but it is actually quite technical. Take writing to the headmaster as an example. No one dared to sign it at first. I will draw a circle on it and let everyone write their names in the circle. So we can't see who signs first and who signs later. This is all leadership! "
After attending our class for less than half a year, this classmate was really promoted to director. I don't know whether his advantages have played a role or whether our courses have helped him find a way to accelerate his development. I guess there may be both reasons.
At this point, you may find that the advantage cycle in your mind will naturally create many excellent performances. In the past, you were very fulfilled, serious or funny, and you thought it was good or everyone thought it was great. These are your achievements.
From a single incident, it is difficult to see any advantages, but when these achievements are enough, we can clearly see the shadow of repeated advantages behind them, just like observing pearls carefully with a magnifying glass and then connecting them in series into a pearl necklace.
Therefore, by analyzing the results, we can find our own advantages.
How do I usually use the SIGN model to teach you to analyze this event from four dimensions and find talents:
The first s is success. What have you done successfully?
The second one is instinct. Is there anything you will do spontaneously without thinking?
The third g is "Grow" What areas do you learn much faster than others?
The last n are needed, but do you think it is a reward in itself, and you don't need more rewards?
I have a friend. His academic performance is average. After graduation, I entered the construction industry and became an ordinary operator.
What are his memories of his achievements? He found that he had special functions since the second day of junior high school. He always knows what to sell in the canteen at noon today in Class Three. His nose is really smart. He hesitated at first-is this an advantage?
Absolutely, he is obviously successful and spontaneous in the sense of smell.
Later, he has been thinking about how to take advantage of this advantage. Until one day, he came into contact with the perfume industry. He could smell everyone around him and sniff out different levels with his nose. Later, he systematically studied perfume and luxury goods and became a perfume connoisseur. He also enjoys the process of bringing beauty to others.
What is your achievement event? What do you expect before doing it? What can I do to make progress faster than others? What did you do to satisfy you? Your advantage lies in these events.
So, after discovering your own advantages, what should you do next?
Some students may say that after finding an advantage, they will certainly give play to it. That's what I said this morning
1) marketing advantage: let people know your advantage.
There is nothing wrong with giving play to your own advantages. But don't worry too much.
If you want to give play to your advantages, you need to make an action first-let people know that you have advantages.
You know, if you are not the boss, then your job is arranged by others.
People don't know your strengths, and they will probably assign you jobs that you are not good at.
I have a friend who works in a well-known strategic consulting company in China.
At first, he was in charge of a business column. He will interview many senior executives and write articles about their business ideas. However, my friend lacks business thinking, his articles are not durable, his average reading is less than 2000, and he has no sense of accomplishment.
Then one day, AlphaGo developed by Google DeepMind team defeated Li Shishi, the top human chess player. The news excited him for a long time. He began to study the application of artificial intelligence in business. He found himself very insightful about science and technology news, especially the development of artificial intelligence, and he learned quickly.
Later, he told everyone about artificial intelligence. At noon, when eating, working overtime and taking the subway after work, he was telling people.
He also interviewed Vice President Iflytek and published an explosive article on speech recognition.
Slowly, the leader found that the child was very talented and asked him, artificial intelligence is very popular now, and you are also very thoughtful in this respect. Do you want to open a "commercial black technology" column? As it happens, our customers are very concerned about this.
My friend got excited immediately, chatted with the leader for a long time, and set the framework of the column on the spot.
Later, this column became more and more popular, with more than 50,000 subscribers. My friend got a six-figure bonus, and the company also rewarded him for attending the CES show (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. His whole working state and happiness are different from before.
So you see, after finding your own advantages, you must find a way to let others know. In this way, you have a better chance to get a job that suits you and give full play to your advantages.
2) Give full play to your advantages: Use your advantages at work.
Everyone has heard the story of "Injured Zhong Yong"-Zhong Yong wrote poems since he was a child, and his father took him to perform poems everywhere every day. The neighbors all know that the child is very talented. This can be said to be a classic case of marketing advantage.
But later, in order to covet the small money, the family refused to let Zhong Yong go to school. You know, no matter how good the talent is, if you can't continue to use it and continue to fight with your master, it will also be abandoned. Therefore, such an outstanding genius as Zhong Yong can only be forgotten in the end.
You might as well think about it, working 8 hours a day, how much time do you have to give play to your advantages?
If you spend more than 60% and more than 4.8 hours every day, congratulations, your development speed must be very fast!
Below 20%, your job will be very painful, because you struggle with your own disadvantages every day.
Even though many people have a job that can give full play to their advantages, they still stare at their weaknesses every day.
We naturally think that we can become a perfect person by correcting all our weaknesses.
In fact, correcting mistakes is only 70 points at most. Take writing an article as an example. Is it a good article if there are no mistakes in spelling and grammar?
In the third grade of primary school, it may be possible, but it will not be possible in the future, because it is necessary to correct the wrong knowledge base.
On the other hand, if you reuse your strengths, your weaknesses will be irrelevant.
Hemingway is a writer who is famous for his spelling and syntactic mistakes. But this did not prevent him from becoming the greatest American novelist in the 20th century. After all, the true meaning of writing lies in insight. Hemingway took this advantage to the extreme and used it every day.
As for spelling and syntax, there are still a bunch of editors to help him.
3) Relocation in different places: Choose a job that can give full play to one's own advantages.
You may ask, what should I do if my work doesn't match my personality and it is basically impossible to make full use of my advantages? Here are two stories about me.
I have a student who is doing user growth in an Internet company. She wants to find the most cost-effective official WeChat account through data analysis and put it in the company's soft text. However, she is a person who has no feeling for numbers. She always exceeds her budget and loses a lot of money. She's depressed, too. Later, she found that her advantage was actually daydreaming. She can write very tasteful and thoughtful articles according to different styles of official WeChat accounts and different user groups. As a result, the published data suddenly improved.
Therefore, even if you don't quit your job, you may be able to give full play to your advantages by changing a way that suits you better.
Another student of mine, she is not very lucky.
After graduation, she worked as an accountant in a state-owned enterprise. At work, she always felt uncomfortable and came to our class.
Later, she found the answer: her advantages are enthusiasm, cheerfulness, divergent thinking, good at dealing with people, like painting, and a strong heart to help others; The job of accounting requires rigor, convergence, dealing with numbers, no need to help others at all, and sometimes help the boss to play the bad COP. In a word, this job completely goes against her advantages. No wonder she's not feeling well.
In this case, it is basically impossible to give full play to her advantages by adjusting her working style, so she has to rethink her career orientation.
Later, she became a lecturer according to her own advantages. Specially use visual guidance to help people find their own advantages.
Soon, she became a famous local lecturer in Changchun.
In today's lesson, we talked about the importance of "giving full play to advantages" in career development.
If you feel that your career development has encountered a bottleneck, it is probably not that you have not worked hard enough, but that you have not made good use of your advantages.
Each of us is born with a unique advantage. You need to find this advantage through your past achievements. You need to constantly sell your advantages to people around you, and then make the best use of this advantage in your work.
If your job has nothing to do with your strengths, then maybe it's time to consider a new career orientation.
Discussion topic: Please tell me the most fulfilling thing you have done. What benefits did you get from this story?