1. Developing your
Talents & Skills
The PEAFF Strategies

2. Developing your talents & skills
Introduction
• It is quite common to
hear that some people are
born with certain special
talents or skills.
• And we consider them
LUCKY!
• But what about us -
simple mortals?

3. Developing your talents & skills
Success & Skills
• Success and special skills are
not a matter of luck,
opportunity or myth.
• It is important to bear in mind
that SUCCESS and SKILLS
are all about putting efforts
and energy to improve
ourselves and to achieve our
goals.

4. Developing your talents & skills
Important
• Many successful people
have mastered important
life or business skills to
achieve a remarkable
position in life.
• And their main secret is:
– Mastering the right skill
through hard studying and
training to achieve a goal that
would fit their dreams and
life expectations.

5. Developing your talents & skills
Mastering a Skill – Theory and Practice
• When we want to
master a specific skill
we need to deal with
two elements:
– Theory and
– Practice.

6. Developing your talents & skills
Theory – Definition & Features
• It is a set of principles or a
system of ideas intended to
explain something.
• Theory is important
because it is based on
concepts and experience
that were tried before.
• It helps us to avoid
wasting our time doing
what is wrong.

7. Developing your talents & skills
Practice - Definition & Features
• It is the application or use of
an idea, belief or method.
• When practicing we are
implementing all the acquired
knowledge from Theory.
• And it is the only way to
verify if we really know what
we have learned.

8. Developing your talents & skills
Theory & Practice - Methodology
• According to a best-
selling author Greg
Wingard our mind goes
through 06 steps when
mastering a skill:
– 03 Theory Steps,
– 03 Practice Steps.

9. Developing your talents & skills
Theory & Practice – The 06 Steps
Theory Practice
Unawareness: Awkwardness:
You are aware that there is a You attempt the new
skill to be learned. behavior and find it difficult..
Awareness: Familiarity:
You realize you need to learn The new behavior is easier
that skill. but still not automatic.
Clarification: Automatic:
You understand what you You no longer think about the
need to do differently. behavior but simply do it.

10. Developing your talents & skills
05 Main Strategies – PEAFF
• But the Theory &
Practice
Methodology
demands the
support of 05
important elements:
– The PEAFF.

11. Developing your talents & skills
The PEAFF Strategy
PEAFF
P – Planning
We must plan everything ahead.
E – Evaluation
We should have a mentor/coach to evaluate our performance.
A – Awareness
We must be conscious of what we are doing.
F – Focus
We must break things down into pieces to better focus.
F – Faith
To improve our skills, we need to have the faith to keep going.

12. Developing your talents & skills
PEAFF – Tips
Don´t let negative
Adjust your
feelings to destroy
Perseverance
perspective
your motivation.
Evaluation
Main tips to Manage the PEAFF Awareness
It is important to be Focus
Practice
objective.
DOC
Do, Observe, Correct Faith

13. Developing your talents & skills
PEAFF – Tips
You always need to
Check the
ask yourself. Is your
Perseverance
Possibilities
goal possible?
Evaluation
Main tips to manage the PEAFF Awareness
You can’t take on Focus
Start
everything. Choose
Small
only one or two skills. Faith

14. Developing your talents & skills
PEAFF – Tips
We need to make
Make sure
sure the skill is really
Perseverance
It is needed
relevant.
Evaluation
Main tips to manage the PEAFF Awareness
Find someone who Focus
Get the right
has mastered the skill
help
to offer some support. Faith

15. Developing your talents & skills
Principles to Remember - DO
• Choose a skill that will
offer the necessary benefits
for your life and career.
• Slip the skill into smaller,
manageable activities.
• Think about your
performance and results
look for new ways to
improve it.

16. Developing your talents & skills
Principles to Remember – DON’T
• Try to learn in a vacuum - ask
others for guidance and feedback
• Rely solely on your boss for
advice - you may want to
involve someone who isn't
responsible for evaluating you
• Assume it's going to happen
overnight - it usually takes at
least six months to develop a
new skill.

17. Developing your talents & skills
Conclusion
• We have the capacity to learn and to
implement new skills in our life.
• But we need to be reasonable and
analyse what kind of demands such
skills will request from us.
• Developing a skill is all a matter of
being aware of its benefits, level of
compromise and investment.
• And don’t forget that our value in the
business world is directly tied to the
number of skills we have been able to
master.

18. Developing your talents & skills
Our References
• We would like to thank the following
writers for their expressive contribution for
this presentation:
– Amy Gallo, Harvard Business Review -
How to Master a New Skill.
– Geoffrey James – How to Master any
Skills.
– Margarita Tartakovsky - 3 Ways to
Master Any New Skill.
– Greg Wingard - The Red Bucket
Strategy.

19. Developing your talents & skills
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