1. REACHING YOUR POTENTIAL

2. HAVE YOU ARRIVED??
How do you achieve your potential?
Would you say you are professionally fulfilled?
Are you busy trying to impress other people?
How do you define success in your heart of hearts?
Do you feel victimized in your career?

3. CATAPULTING YOURSELF TO SUCCESS
Managing your career is your
responsibility – not your boss’s.
Reassess your careers at intervals.
Take a very personal look at how you define success in your
heart of hearts.
Know your strengths , weaknesses and passion.
Identify & excel at the task critical to your success
Demonstrate character & leadership.

4. KNOWING YOURSELF
 Write down two or three “greatest strengths” & two or three most
“significant weaknesses”.
 Have an ongoing process of “seeking coaching”, asking for very
“specific feedback” & “being receptive” to input from people at
various levels within your organization.
 These initiatives take “time, humility & a willingness to confront
weakness, fears & blind spots” that you might usually ignore.

5. KNOWING YOURSELF
 The next challenge is to figure out what you truly enjoy doing?. What’s
your dream job? How well does it match what you are currently doing?.
 Most individuals base their career choices excessively on the views of
their “peers and popular opinion”, instead of on whether they would
actually love their work.
 Loving what you do gives you the strength to weather “personal
setbacks”, “overcome adversity” , face and “address your weakness” and
work the long hours typically needed to reach your potential.

6. EXCELLING AT CRITICAL TASK
Tasks that are central to your chosen enterprise are the
critical tasks.
You need to assess what will “drive success in your position”
and ask yourself whether you enjoy those key tasks. This
will determine how to spend your time and develop your
skills.
Many people stall their career by playing it safe.

7. DEMONSTRATING CHARACTER & LEADERSHIP
 Excellent leaders are willing to do things for others without regard to whats in it
for them.
 Leaders speak up even when they know they might be expressing an unpopular
view
 Emerging leaders must spend time deciding what they truly believe versus trying
to guess what the boss might want to hear
 When you do suffer a setback, be willing to step back & objectively assess your
own role in the event. This mind set will help you learn from inevitable setbacks
& help you bounce back, eventually.

8. There is nothing anyone can do to prevent you from
reaching your potential !
The challenge is for you to identify your dream,
develop the skills to get there, exhibit character &
leadership.