Second Dimensions of Capability: Attitude

Covey, in The Speed of Trust. The One Thing That Changes Everything (New York: Free Press, 2006), says:

Attitudes represent our paradigms--our ways of seeing, as well as our ways of being. [p. 94]

He says to ask yourself the following questions:

What are my attitudes about work? About life? About learning? About myself, capabilities, and my opportunities to contribute? Are there more productive attitudes and paradigms I could embrace that would help me create better results? [p.96]

You can ask others about these to give you a view that may be blocked by your blind spot. Then collate the answers and see what they say. Do you have to do anything about it? If so, set your goals and objectives and develop an action plan whereby you are going to change your attitude.

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First Dimension of Capability, Talents Continued

Covey, in The Speed of Trust. The One Thing That Changes Everything (New York: Free Press, 2006), p. 94, gives us four questions we can ask ourselves about our talents:

1. What are my unique strengths or talents?

2. What is the highest and best use of my talents?

3. How can I better maximize the talents I have?

4. What talents might I have that I have not yet developed?

These are questions which you should ask yourself. Then go to family, friends, and colleagues who know you well and whom you trust to give you an honest opinion, and ask them for their opinions. If you think you have a talent for archery, your friends and family and colleagues think so, and you've done well in archery events, or people have said you're good at it, then you can probably count that as a talent you should at least consider.

Use the Red Green test. Red Green is a writer and commedian you see on public broadcasting sometimes. He comes out of Canada and satirized Canadian attitudes and behaviors regarding men and manhood. He says if you doing something and no one has complemented you on it or you haven't won any awards your not good at it, you're just at it. Words to live by.

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It makes Your Stop for Real Estate, my real estate referral business, go. See www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.

It powers my writing. Go to www.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com for my ideas on writing and where you can read my mystery for free, download it for free or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it.

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First Dimension of Capability: Talents

Covey, in The Speed of Trust. The One Thing That Changes Everything (New York: Free Press, 2006), p. 94, says that "Talents are our natural gifts and strengths."

We need to assess our talents. They are our personal assets. They were given to us by our parents. They are the assets that were given to us at birth.

They're the savings accounts our fathers gave us when we graduated from college containing the $10 he put in them every week. If we aren't sure what our talents are, we need to ask people who know us.

We need to build on them. The are our head start we got in life. We got them without doing anything to deserve them.

We shouldn't confine our personal development to them, though, because we may have talents we don't know we have. So we should constantly put ourselves in new situations so that they can manifest themselves.

My goal here is to bring out more skilled entrepreneurs. How am I doing?

Entrepreneurship is the life's blood of all my professional activities. It makes them go. It informs my connection strategy. For my ideas on connection strategy, go to my new blog www.Connecting.blogspot.com.

It makes Your Stop for Real Estate, my real estate referral business, go. See www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.

It powers my writing. Go to www.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com for my ideas on writing and where you can read my mystery for free, download it for free or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it.

It fuels my publishing enterprise, By and for Writersgo. See www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com where you can get a poem or a short story published.

Five Dimensions of Capability

Covey, in The Speed of Trust. The One Thing That Changes Everything (New York: Free Press, 2006), p. 94, gives five dimensions of capabilities:

1. Talents: "Our natural gifts and strengths."

2. Attitudes: "Our ways of seeing, as well as our ways of being."

3. Skills: "Our proficiencies, the things we can do well."

4. Knowledge: "Our learning, insight, understanding, and awareness."

5. Style: Our unique approach and personality."

We'll unpack these in coming posts.

My goal here is to bring out more skilled entrepreneurs. How am I doing?

Entrepreneurship is the life's blood of all my professional activities. It makes them go. It informs my connection strategy. For my ideas on connection strategy, go to my new blog www.Connecting.blogspot.com.

It makes Your Stop for Real Estate, my real estate referral business, go. See www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.

It powers my writing. Go to www.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com for my ideas on writing and where you can read my mystery for free, download it for free or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it.

It fuels my publishing enterprise, By and for Writersgo. See www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com where you can get a poem or a short story published.

Technical Ability

Covey, in The Speed of Trust. The One Thing That Changes Everything (New York: Free Press, 2006), p. 94, looks two aspects of capabability. First, "'technical abilities'--those skills that are specific to our job or situation or particular task at hand," then, "trust abilities." These are "the ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust." Covey says this last one "is vital in every situation."

Both of these are important to look at and to dwell on a little bit, so we'll start unpacking it next time in Entrepreneurship on Line.

My goal here is to bring out more skilled entrepreneurs. How am I doing?

Entrepreneurship is the life's blood of all my professional activities. It makes them go. It informs my connection strategy. For my ideas on connection strategy, go to my new blog www.Connecting.blogspot.com.

It makes Your Stop for Real Estate, my real estate referral business, go. See www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.

It powers my writing. Go to www.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com for my ideas on writing and where you can read my mystery for free, download it for free or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it.

It fuels my publishing enterprise, By and for Writersgo. See www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com where you can get a poem or a short story published.

Capabilities and Credibility

Covey, in The Speed of Trust. The One Thing That Changes Everything (New York: Free Press, 2006), p. 93, argues that "to remain credible in today's world, we need to constantly improve our capabilities."

Here are four questions he recommends we ask ourselves about our capabilities:

1. What capabilities do I have that make me credible and that inspire the trust and confidence of others?

2. What experience have I had (or not had) in developing capabilities that affects the confidence I have in myself?

3. What impact are factors such as technology and globalization having on the relevance of my current capabilities?

4. What is my attitude and approach toward improving my current capabilities and gaining new ones?

We should all ask ourselves these questions and in an ongoing way.

My goal here is to bring out more skilled entrepreneurs. How am I doing?

Entrepreneurship is the life's blood of all my professional activities. It makes them go. It informs my connection strategy. For my ideas on connection strategy, go to my new blog www.Connecting.blogspot.com.

It makes Your Stop for Real Estate, my real estate referral business, go. See www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.

It powers my writing. Go to www.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com for my ideas on writing and where you can read my mystery for free, download it for free or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it.

It fuels my publishing enterprise, By and for Writersgo. See www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com where you can get a poem or a short story published.

Covey, in The Speed of Trust. The One Thing That Changes Everything (New York: Free Press, 2006), brings capabilities in because

Capable people are credible. They inspire trust. It's that simple. You can have the other three cores...and you can have even produced good results in the past. But at the end of the day--especially in this rapidly changing knowledge worker economy--if you don't have current capabilities, if you are not relevant, you will not have credibility. [p.92]

Actually we are moving away from a knowledge worker economy, but that's another posting.

My goal here is to bring out more skilled entrepreneurs. How am I doing?

Entrepreneurship is the life's blood of all my professional activities. It makes them go. It informs my connection strategy. For my ideas on connection strategy, go to my new blog www.Connecting.blogspot.com.

It makes Your Stop for Real Estate, my real estate referral business, go. See www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.

It powers my writing. Go to www.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com for my ideas on writing and where you can read my mystery for free, download it for free or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it.

It fuels my publishing enterprise, By and for Writersgo. See www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com where you can get a poem or a short story published.

Capabilities

To review, Covey, in The Speed of Trust. The One Thing That Changes Everything (New York: Free Press, 2006), said there were 5 waves of trust: self-trust, relationship trust, Organizational Trust, Market Trust, and Societal Trust.

Then we said the first wave, self-trust, consisted of the 4 cores of credibility: integrity (Are you congruent), intent (What's your agenda), capabilities (Are you relevant), and results (What's your Track Record?). We covered the first 2 cores, integrity and intent. Now Covey looks at capabilities (p. 91ff).

In Covey's words (p. 91),

The first dimension of competence is capabilities--the talents, skills, knowledge, capacities, and abilities we have that enable us to perform with excellence. Going back to the metaphor of the tree, capabilities are the branches that produce the fruits of results.

We'll unpack this term in subsequent posts.

My goal here is to bring out more skilled entrepreneurs. How am I doing?

Entrepreneurship is the life's blood of all my professional activities. It makes them go. It informs my connection strategy. For my ideas on connection strategy, go to my new blog www.Connecting.blogspot.com.

It makes Your Stop for Real Estate, my real estate referral business, go. See www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.

It powers my writing. Go to www.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com for my ideas on writing and where you can read my mystery for free, download it for free or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it.

It fuels my publishing enterprise, By and for Writersgo. See www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com where you can get a poem or a short story published.

More on Intent

Working from Covey's comments, pp. 84-90, of The Speed of Trust. The One Thing That Changes Everything (New York: Free Press, 2006) there are three things to do if we want to improve our intent, that is make our intentions more in line with who we are as a person.

1. Examine and refine your motives (p. 85ff). Look in the mirror, think about what you're doing. If you're not sure about things, ask others who know you and will give you an honest opninon. Covey gives a number of "soul searching" questions, and you would be wise to look at them.

2. Declare your intent (p. 87ff). Put it out in the open where you committ yourself to it. Saying to yourself your intention is X where others can hear it and remember you said it gives you extra motivation, because you really do want to change and you want to show others that you have. Otherwise you look like a fool.

3. Choose abundance (p. 88ff). Here's what Covey says about it:

Abundance means that there is enough for everybody. The opposite--scarcity--says there is only so much to go around, and if you get it, I won't.

Which means that if you choose abundance you're looking at what everybody can have.

My goal here is to bring out more skilled entrepreneurs. How am I doing?"

Entrepreneurship is the life's blood of all my professional activities. It makes them go. It informs my connection strategy. For my ideas on connection strategy, go to my new blog www.Connecting.blogspot.com.

It makes Your Stop for Real Estate, my real estate referral business, go. See www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.

It powers my writing. Go to www.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com for my ideas on writing and where you can read my mystery for free, download it for free or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it.

It fuels my publishing enterprise, By and for Writersgo. See www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com where you can get a poem or a short story published.