Natural Skills and Talents - easy read
If someone was to ask you what your skills were, would you be able to say?
What about talents - the things you do naturally sometimes without thinking, - do you know what they are?
Sarah, our Sync coach thinks it's really important that we look at our talents when thinking about leading.
Talent Spotting
What's the difference between a skill and a talent?
Sarah thinks a skill is something you learn but a talent is something that you have inside yourself.
When people talk about their talents and what they do naturally, they usually begin to talk faster, look happier. Try talking to some of your friends about what they think their talents are and see for yourself.
If we do not use these talents, it can make us very unhappy.
The skills we learn because we are disabled
Most of us cannot do a leading skills course because they often happen over a long period of time - sometimes over a week and many of us who have tried them, find them inaccessible and tiring.
Does that mean we can't lead? Of course not.
What it does mean is that we need to look at new ways of getting skills that fit in with our lives.
Being determined and not giving up
Some skills we develop along the way because we are disabled and because we have to work things out to get around and make ourselves heard.
Sync member Holly Meiszner says that
Being a good leader is a person who never gives up and never takes no for an answer
Holly is speaking from experience - this is is a natural talent she has developed over time and she doesn't give up easily.
Sync is always exploring how we can use these talents to develop our leadership and to drop the things the not so good talents that we have - like complaining, or saying sorry. We can use each other to stop this.
Bring out your Talents!
So why don't you let your skills and talents shine - the good ones - go on, you know you want to!
Sarah Pickthall, Sync Coaching
