Building on talent, talent management, and many other titles came-up and will continue to do so. What do we mean by “talent”? When we search and read about this topic, we find that it is all revolving around three things. Aptitude, Competencies, and Capabilities, which at the end create talent. I would call it here the triangle effects or the triangle of talent. Almost, all researches came to one conclusion about talent. It is not inherited! Hence, you are not created to be a sales person, nor a financial manager. In fact, you might have some innate abilities that help in the process or boost it, but definitely, you are not what you think you are. In other words, if you are not good at something it does not necessarily indicate that you are not good at it for good. They problem could lay in your approach to the task or previous experience that affects your aptitude.
To discuss this in details let us go back to the triangle of talent and think of it for some time. If we were to make a circle arrow on the triangle, where would you consider the start and the end of it? Is it going to turn on like a clockwise or the opposite? As I have mentioned before you might be not as good as you want to be at something because of a previous experience or the way you are approaching it makes you feel it is difficult for you. If you think of this, you will find that it is all falls in the first triangle to the top “Aptitude”. Yes, it is about how you act towards the situation. Bad previous experience or some difficulties might case a change in your aptitude towards a task. On the other hand, good experience or ease in accomplishing a task will affect your aptitude positively and will make you do it again with more confidence each time. As a result, your capabilities in this specific task will increase rapidly as well as your competencies. This will result to an increase in your satisfaction level and of course a positive attitude towards this task and the circle will continue enhancing and sharpening your talent.
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More than twenty banks operate in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the time of writing this article. According to SAMA (Forty Seventh Annual Report), the total workforce in this sector is 37,410. Recently, we have conducted a survey to measure the level of job satisfaction among employees in banking sector. The survey was published on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networks. 97 employees took the survey.