Silvia Guarnieri, founding partner and academic director of Escuela Europea de Coaching, talks about talent and how to manage it in the prestigious website Psicología y mente, here are some of the most interesting answers.
TALENT AND MOTIVATION
- "We all have a talent, sometimes hidden, waiting to be revealed. We have been led to believe that we are unique and that our talents are unique. The truth is that our abilities and interests change throughout our lives".
- "It is of vital importance to do continuous personal work to find out what motivates us today, where our interests, desires or needs lie, in order to identify our hidden talents and also, by the way, to find happiness on new paths.
- "The word that comes to me is freedom: talent and motivation are ignited when we feel free to choose, to make mistakes and to choose again".
- "Motivation, that engine to do something, comes to us for different reasons. Sometimes we discover our talent through opposition: something in our body, in our emotions tells us 'enough is enough' or 'this is it' and that's where the real search begins. We connect with desire, with motivation, and we unleash our imagination to explore the unexplored.
TALENT AND CONSTANT CHALLENGES
- "Personal and professional growth is achieved in several ways: taking on new responsibilities and roles, seeking motivation and, above all, challenging or challenging the skills of company members".
- "Nothing motivates us more than knowing that we have resources, facing a challenge thinking "I don't know how I'm going to get out of this" and then suddenly seeing how we find our own worth and resources and come out on top. What we learn from these experiences is that if we have been able to meet this challenge, we will be able to meet the next ones, that there is nothing that can stand in our way. The company that manages to generate this emotion in its employees will be a company that grows exponentially.
- "We should each be able to take the freedom to choose the place where we want to work according to our values and beliefs. A place that somehow responds to our needs and interests.
TALENT AND FLEXIBILITY
- "Among the forms of talent that will be most important in the future is undoubtedly flexibility, not sticking to what we do with the products or services we have created.
- "Knowing that we are not what we do today, that what we are capable of doing today is only a part of our infinite capacity".
TALENT AND LEADERSHIP
- "The leader is no longer defined as the one who leads, but as the one who influences".
- "We must not forget that we are all leaders. There are more and more trends that allow employees to be leaders of their own project.
TALENT AND BELIEFS
- "People do not have beliefs, but beliefs have us trapped in them, without us being aware of it".
- "The story has the force of law for our hearts".
- "The stories we tell ourselves are full of powerful and limiting beliefs. When we revise the story and manage to change it to a more empowering one, we have already changed.
TALENT AND COACHING
- "Think that changing a belief changes a behaviour and this changes the system in which we move. Therefore, changing a belief has a significant personal cost.
- When we see the light at the end of the tunnel, we often love the change of belief, but along the way we often doubt whether or not the transformation is worth it.
- Coaching processes, in their broadest sense, assist in learning new ways of doing things in line with the new narratives and beliefs that we have been able to build. Coach and client pursue, from a human and vital connection, the implementation towards the fullness, the illusion and the personal and professional development of the client".
