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How To Identify Your Weakest Key Skill
Excellence orientation requires that you make a list of the key skills that are essential for success in your field. There are usually only about 5-7 skills, or key result areas, that determine most of the success that one achieves in any field of endeavor. Your first job is to identify these key skills and write them down.  Here is an interesting discovery. You have achieved your of success in your field today because of your talent and ability in certain key areas. But at the same time, you are being held back by your weaknesses in other areas. The rule is that your weakest key skill determines the height of your results, and your income. In other words, you could be excellent at six out of seven key result areas, but your weakness in the seventh area will determine your overall results and rewards in
that job or field.  You therefore ask yourself this question, ”What one skill, if I developed and did it consistently in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career?”
This is one of the most important questions that you ask and answer throughout your career. You must develop the habit of continually identifying and working on your weakest key skill. Bringing up your ability in this one area will usually have a greater and more immediate impact on your results than anything else you can do.  If you do not know the answer to this question (and most people don’t), go to your boss or your coworkers and ask them, “What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion would help me the most in my job?”

Sometimes I like to ask people this question, “If a group of children goes for a walk, which child determines the speed of the entire group?” They will always reply and say, “The slowest child.” Exactly.  Your “slowest kid” is your weakest key skill. It sets the speed at which you move ahead in your career, and determines the heights that you reach.  And here is another important point. You are almost invariably weak in an area that you do not
particularly like or enjoy. But the reason that you do not like or enjoy that area is because you have not yet mastered that area.  As soon as you write it down, make a plan, and develop excellence in a particular skill area, you will like and enjoy performing in that area for the rest of your career.  The fact is that you could be only skill away from doubling your productivity, your performance and your income. The acquisition of one key skill where you are currently weak could make it possible for you to use all your other skills at a higher level, and accomplish more in your work than you ever thought possible.  What one skill could that be?                                                                   Decide today to develop your weakest  key skill.  Make a plan, work on your plan every single day. In no time at all, you will be amazed at how quickly your life changes for the better.

Good Luck!