Page 383 - kf fyi for your improvement license eng 3-4-15
P. 383
Factor: N/A
Cluster O: Too narrow
Career staller and stopper 106: Key skill deficiencies
106. Key skill deficiencies
New and different jobs, roles, geographies, business units, and organizations require new and different
skills and abilities. Many times as we move up, in, out, down, and sideways, we are caught without the
requisite skills needed to perform well. Some go about the business of learning the new skills and others
wait to see if they can get through without building new skills. Most of the time, you can’t wait. Those who
wait too long get rated as having Key skill deficiencies.
“Faults are more easily recognized
in the works of others than in our own.”
Leonardo da Vinci – Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and writer
A problem
• Lacks one or more key job-required talents or skills needed to perform effectively.
Not a problem
• Skilled in most if not all of the mission-critical areas of the job.
• Scopes out what skills are required to perform.
• Works to improve and expand skill set.
• Open to tutors, courses, any learning mode to improve proficiency.
Some possible causes
• Counting backwards to retirement.
• Inexperienced.
• Lack of technical/functional skills.
• Narrow perspective.
• New to the job or function.
• Not interested in self-development.
© Korn Ferry 2014-2015. All rights reserved. WWW.KORNFERRY.COM
383