How to Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership Success By Magnifying Your Strengths

CHAPTER 7Transitioning from Poor Performance to Good

A Linear Plan for Enhancing Your Skills

Modeling: The Beginning of Developing Any Skill or Ability

Let’s start with the most basic of skills. In Chapter 3 we introduced the process that we all went through in learning to dress ourselves or eat meals using a knife and fork. How did we learn these skills? We observed others. Children mimic their parents. The child watches carefully as the parent shows how to tie shoelaces into a bow, and then the child imitates and practices those actions. Aspiring physicians acquire their skills as they first watch experienced surgeons perform an operation and then assist in the procedure. We learned most of our skills by watching others perform them. We then ...