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: Gifted & Talented in the Workplace = “High Potential --or-- High Performer. Topics. Compare & Contrast: G&T with High Potential A Closer Look at Learning Agility Other Key Concepts: Competencies, Career Stallers
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: Gifted & Talented in the Workplace = “High Potential --or-- High Performer
Topics • Compare & Contrast: G&T with High Potential • A Closer Look at Learning Agility • Other Key Concepts: Competencies, Career Stallers & Stoppers • Development: The Whole Picture
Objectives • Offer a perspective you may have not known before for possible insights for education of G&T • Confirm the many aspects of over-lap of gifted and high potential • Contrast the high performer- expert as gifted but NOT high potential—yet valuable insights for them also • Long range goal of education: enable you to discover your abilities and maximize them (right?)
G&T : High Potential • 130+ and/or achievement, rate of acquisition/ retention, demonstrated achievement, early skill development, allowing for intervening factors masking giftedness (Pa. criteria) • Demonstrating the ability to learn from experience, and subsequently apply that learning to perform successfully under new or first time conditions (aka: learning agility)
Other Views of LA • Resilience, Adaptability when needed (vs. staunch, heels dug in behavior) • Willingness to relinquish behavior that used to work, but recognizing when it’s not producing optimal outcomes--- therefore NEW skills are needed • Examples: many ways to de-escalate conflict; motivation differs among individuals, ….
Quick Exercise • List 3 (titles) of the most memorable experiences you’ve had– that account in part for who you are today • Now identify what you learned from each one– what you internalized and was now a part of you • 2-3 Examples?!?
Closer Look at Learning Agility • MENTAL Agility: excellent critical thinkers who are comfortable with complexity & ambiguity. Examine problems carefully, make fresh connections. CAN clearly explain their logic to another • PEOPLE Agility: know themselves very well and can readily deal with a wide variety of people and tough situations; cool and resilient under pressure • CHANGE Agility: Curious, like to experiment, and can effectively deal with the discomfort of change. Have a passion for ideas and are highly interested in continually improving things • RESULTS Agility: Deliver results in first time situations by inspiring teams plus having significant ‘presence’. Exhibit the sort of presence that builds confidence in themselves and others
MENTAL PEOPLE Open-minded & tolerant Self Aware Comfortable with diversity & diverse opinions Can play many roles simultaneously Understands others Relishes helping others succeed Politically agile Deals with conflict constructively Skilled communicator • Curious • Gets to root causes • Comfortable with Ambiguity • Finds parallels & contrasts easily • Questions Conventional Wisdom • Finds solution to tough problem • Reads broadly & has wide interests
CHANGE RESULTS Builds high performance teams Can pull off things against all odds Has tremendous drive to accomplish tasks Very flexible & adaptable Has significant personal presence • Loves tinkering & trying new things • Easily accepts challenges • Accepts responsibility & accountability • Introduces new slants on old ideas
MENTAL PEOPLE Open-minded & tolerant Self Aware Comfortable with diversity & diverse opinions Can play many roles simultaneously Understands others Relishes helping others succeed Politically agile Deals with conflict constructively Skilled communicator • Curious • Gets to root causes • Comfortable with Ambiguity • Finds parallels & contrasts easily • Questions Conventional Wisdom • Finds solution to tough problem • Reads broadly & has wide interests
CHANGE RESULTS Builds high performance teams Can pull off things against all odds Has tremendous drive to accomplish tasks Very flexible & adaptable Has significant personal presence • Loves tinkering & trying new things • Easily accepts challenges • Accepts responsibility & accountability • Introduces new slants on old ideas
Differences • Deep expertise in one discipline is considered high performance; in contrast to high potential encompassing systemic & multiple disciplines’ impact on an optimal outcome
Contrasting Learners Traditional Learners Active Learners Street smarts (re: people) High initiative & motivation High conceptual complexity Very broad thinker Highly curious– why, how High self awareness; knows strengths & limitations; resourceful about limitations • High intellect • High Grades, class rank… • Scores well on tests (SAT, ACT, GRE…) • High technical KSA • High verbal & analytic skills • Linear problem solver– gets THE right answer • Practice yields greater expertise
High Potentials are Mostly High Performers % of high potentials that are not high performers % of high potentials that are high performers High-Potential Management Survey Corporate Leadership Council, 2005
High Performers are not always High Potentials % of high performers that are high potentials % of high performers that are not high potentials High-Potential Management Survey Corporate Leadership Council, 2005
The New SATs • Robert Sternberg, while President of the APA, collaborated with ____ to test application of the predictability of “practical intelligence” • Sufficient results occurred that the additional critical reasoning test section was added to the traditional Verbal & Math measures • Change is difficult for human beings and I’m not sure if the criticism has abated yet…. (Selective score reporting; some schools not requiring it, etc)
GREs Have PPI Evaluation PPI = Personal Potential Index • Knowledge & Creativity • Communication Skills • Teamwork • Resilience • Planning & Organization • Ethics & Integrity
Other Key Concepts: Competencies • Learning Agility is the Means; the results aimed at are increasing the development of Competencies • All Competencies are not created equally… (see handout) • mmm
Where Do Comps Come From? • Extensive research since the 80’s verifies which competencies can be learned from ‘significant experiences’ • Evidence of competencies can be spotted as early as junior high & of course senior high & college • See original discovery diagram; it has only increased in sources of experiences per competencies
NOTE: % = Frequency , not Importance Start-up/ Scratch and Fix-it/ Turnaround are the most Powerful
Learning Agility • You are either consciously Adding, Refining or Discarding previous behavior via Learning Agility • Or you are having lesson-rich experiences and NOT Adding/Refining/Discarding skills (under-developed LA) • Learning Agility happens within the brain’s executive function– or not • Think Darwinian Adaptation for survival of the species as one example
Other Key Concepts: Stallers & Stoppers • Insensitivity to Others • Blocked Learner • Perception of being Arrogant • Not Trusted (failing to follow through on promises, betraying trust) • Have them study biographies, film, historical events, etc for these “unintended consequences” • Identify the gap between what I/ Others intend & what the perceived impact is – to others perception is reality
Development Treatment S&S INNOCULATION… • Learn toidentify the unsuccessful behaviors in self & others • Willingness to self-edit • Willingness to learn constructive feedback to others • Create a vigilance to self monitor & be aware of intention vs impact (& asking for feedback)
Worthy of Transplant? 1. ? Increase LA with ‘experts’ ? 2. ? Increase People Agility with all ? 3. ? Integrate principles of development with Bloom levels to make mastery clearer ? 4. ? Identify a few competencies involved in enrichment/ immersions/ academic games, etc ? 5. ? Spot-light awareness of toughest competency development with secondary students ?
Increase LA With ‘Experts’ • A natural evolution with Mental Agility occurs, but… • Spotlight the balancing additives of People agility, Change agility & Results (through influencing others) • Develop self reflection protocols to parallel the ‘automatic’ mach 4 cognitive mechanisms • Reinforce sharing tacit knowledge with each other to make the learning from experience more conscious
Increase People Agility with All • Give Self Management it’s due importance and incorporate emotional intelligence as both a cognitively learned ‘discipline’ • And, as an arena for skill building: • Play many roles; relish paradox for the flexibility • Help others succeed • Deal with conflict constructively • Ask & give feedback; take it as data; monitor Intention/Impact • Identify biases as impediments to Understanding Those Different )From Me/Us)
Integrate Principles of Development with Bloom • Early Strengths • 70-20-10 • Blind Spots ~ Feedback • Tough Challenges are Developmental Opportunities in Disguise (VADI) • Make better & better mistakes
Identify Competencies Involved w/ Enrichment, Immersions, Academic Games…. Beyond critical thinking & creative thinking, identify opportunities for practicing: • Dealing with Ambiguity • Learning on the Fly • Perspective • Conflict Management • Dealing with Paradox • Listening (with your 3rd ear) • Personal Learning • Sizing Up People (for ‘gifts differing’, for successful roles, etc)
Begin Tough Competency Development • Dealing with Ambiguity is the kingpin • Understanding Others • Political Savvy (for effective & respectful Negotiation) • Beyond own Creativity, reinforce practice of Innovation Management • Conflict Management/ Composure, etc can aid in taming (Daniel Goldberg’s ‘hijacking of the amygdala’)
SUMMARY • Compared & Contrasted: G&T with High Potential • Took Closer Look at Learning Agility • Reviewed Other Key Concepts: Competencies & Results • Pondered Development: The Whole Picture