| With information doubling at the speed of light (at least | | | | weaknesses. |
| it seems that way when reading all the alerts and | | | | Part of this is due to negative conditioning from early |
| ezines that hit my email In Box each week), it does | | | | childhood. The other part is the focus on improving our |
| appear staying ahead of the flow is required for those | | | | weaknesses from our school education. |
| engaged in business innovation. Those who understand | | | | Just imagine what would happen if all this misdirected |
| the words of Marcel Proust "The true voyage of | | | | money, emotions and energies were redirected to |
| discovery is not seeing new landscapes, but seeing the | | | | knowing what we do well? Then we could choose |
| same landscapes with new eyes." are ahead of the | | | | exactly what talents could take us from where we |
| game. | | | | are to where we want to be. Finally, we could create |
| And the game is always changing. For the last decade, | | | | a plan of action to "Make it so" as Captain Picard from |
| talent management has become a mantra for many. | | | | Star Trek Enterprise so often said. (I really miss that |
| Terms within this area of performance improvement | | | | series.) |
| include human capital, business intelligence and | | | | Where would business innovation be if these actions |
| employee retention. | | | | were taken? |
| This is why this recent article at ERE intrigued me. The | | | | Unfortunately, most people do not know their talents or |
| discussion by author John Zappe examined this new | | | | lack talent intelligence. To correct this situation begins |
| term of Talent Intelligence. | | | | by assessing where individuals are now so they can |
| For the last 20 plus years, I have observed how talent | | | | know their talents and how those talents affect their |
| is misused. The wrong people in the wrong seats on | | | | decision making styles as well as their levels of |
| the bus so to speak to paraphrase Jim Collins in Good | | | | optimism and pessimism. There are several |
| to Great. | | | | instruments out there than can assist in what is really a |
| My observation and that of one of my colleagues, Jay | | | | performance appraisal of talent intelligence. |
| Niblick president of Innermetrix and author of What's | | | | Possibly in the future, talent intelligence quotient (TIQ) |
| Your Genius, is that people focus far too much on | | | | will be more important than IQ or emotional intelligence |
| what they do wrong and on their weaker talents than | | | | (EQ). However right now, the first step is to identify the |
| focus on what they do well that being their stronger | | | | talent intelligence within your business and then use |
| talents. And in some cases, they will turn non-talents | | | | that information to propel your voyage of business |
| (not necessary for their current roles) into | | | | innovation forward. |