Implications of Feedback Analysis

Go to work on acquiring the skills and knowledge you need to fully realize your strengths.

Several implications for action follow from feedback analysis.  First and foremost, concentrate on your strengths.  Put yourself where your strengths can produce results.

Second, work on improving your strengths.  Analysis will rapidly show where you need to improve skills or acquire new ones.  It will also show the gaps in your knowledge--and those can usually be filled.  Mathematicians are born, but everyone can learn trigonometry.

Third, discover where your intellectual arrogance is causing disabling ignorance and overcome it.  Far too many people--especially people with great expertise in one area--are contemptuous of knowledge in other areas or believe that being bright is a substitute for knowledge.  First-rate engineers, for instance tend to take pride in not knowing anything about people. Human beings, they believe, are much to disorderly for the good engineering mind.  Human resources professionals, by contrast, often pride themselves on their ignorance of elementary accounting or of quantitative methods altogether.  But taking pride in such ignorance is self-defeating.  Go to work on acquiring the skills and knowledge you need to fully realize your strengths.

ACTION POINT: Concentrate on your strengths, improve your strengths and abandon intellectual arrogance.