by Ciaran Nagle | Method Teaming Blog
Let’s start with a précis of the difference between talents and skills. Skills is all that stuff that you learn how to do. You can learn how to be a doctor, for instance, or an engineer or a catwalk model.But talents operate in completely different areas. You can’t...
by Ciaran Nagle | Method Teaming Blog
Pity the vicar, who only joined the church to share the gospel yet who now runs an enterprise as complicated as a small/medium-sized business.First there’s the spiritual stuff. Sermons to be written and delivered. Sick to be visited and empathised with. Unbelievers to...
by Ciaran Nagle | Method Teaming Blog
True story. Becky and Sandra worked together in a busy finance team. Their chairs are back to back and they work on related stuff so they need to communicate. But they didn’t get on.Becky was always turning around saying, ‘Sandra, I need to talk to you about X, Y and...
by Ciaran Nagle | Method Teaming Blog
Doers are the backroom heroes of the company. They don’t sell, they don’t strategise and they’re not brilliant with relationships. They don’t, therefore, really stand out. Yet without them doing and building and getting stuff done, the org falls apart.But how do you...
by Ciaran Nagle | Method Teaming Blog
Think your colleague is being awkward? No, they’re just being true to their talent.Around half the population are ‘doers’. These are people who like to do, to make, to build. They like to have a deep reservoir of knowledge about their work, just in case someone asks...
