“He’s smart, but…”
Year-end is the time for performance evaluation and planning. How would you feel about the employees described in the following sentences?
- “He’s really smart, but he’s not a good team player.”
- “She’s really smart, and she shows great judgment in crises.”
There are a lot of smart people in the world. The key is identifying and developing smart people who have the and not the but.
Career consultant Karyl Innis uses the example of “smart, but” to highlight the difference between initial career skills and continuing career skills. Intelligence is an initial career skill; it gets a person in the door. Impact is a continuing career skill; it creates respect and opportunity.
The following table shows just some of the terms Innis uses to classify the different skill sets. We hope they are useful as you conduct performance planning for 2004.
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Initial Career Skills |
Continuing Career Skills |
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