Brian Tracy breaks down how to find your weakest skill in a role, since that's what limits your career. Identify your 5-7 core competencies, grade yourself on each, then focus on improving the one holding you back.
Lets talk about how to identify and analyze your key skills. Moving to the top of your field requires that you take your existing position and you break it down into what we call its key result areas or to its core competencies. In every job and in every company for that matter, there are a few key skills, seldom more than five to seven, that determine the success or failure of the person in that job. Wherever an individual is having trouble in his or her career, it's usually because he or she is weak in one or more of these kras, or core skills. Whenever a person is successful, it turns out it's because they are strong in all the key skills necessary for success in that job. Now here's a key your weakest important skill determines the height of your success and your work. You could be excellent at 6 out of 7 of your key result areas, but your weakness in the seventh area can hold you back for years. Your first job is to break your work down into its component parts, its basic skills, and then honestly analyze your level of competence in each one by giving yourself a grade on a scale from 1 to 10. For example, if you're in sales, your key result areas or core skills might be prospecting, establishing rapport, identifying problems, presenting solutions, answering objections, closing the sale, and getting resales and referrals from satisfied customers. A weakness in any one of these areas could be fatal to your success and your income. If you're in business, your key result areas could be leadership and management, strategic planning, marketing and sales, staffing and delegating, financial controls and administration and production and quality control. Each situation may be slightly different, but the same concept applies. Success begins by analyzing the individual parts of your performance, the factors that determine your profitability, and then making a plan to become very good in each area. A good exercise is to ask yourself, what is my limiting skill? What is it that I do or don't do that is determining the speed at which I succeed and move ahead in my job? What is the performance bottleneck or choke point in your work? What limits you or holds you back from getting to where you want to go faster? Sometimes just taking the time to develop one limiting skill will put your entire career onto the fast track. I hope you enjoyed this article on how to identify and analyze your key skills to put your career onto the fast track. Please subscribe to My channel and click the like button below.
