Strengths
What are your hobbies?
What aspects of your job do you consider that you are good at?
What sort of things – behaviour, subjects, and departments – do you feel relaxed with?
What subjects and parts of your job attract you?
What bits of your job do you always look forward to?
What skills have you always been naturally good at?
What areas do you love about your job?
Which subjects do you think you are naturally good at?
What gives you a buzz, a rush?
What recharges your batteries?

Opportunities
What areas of your job do you learn naturally?
What subjects have you always learnt easily?
What have you always wanted to learn but never had enough time?
What areas of your company do you think they are missing out on?
What come s easily to you?

Gaps
What sort of things do you think you need training with?
What skills have you lagged behind on?
Which subjects do you think you need to brush up on for your job?
Which topics do you think you and your team should know more about?
Where do you think the market is going?
What additional skills do you think you could do more with?

Tensions
What sort of things about your job worries you?
What aspects of the job stress you?
What don’t you honour?
Where do you think you are being held back?
What subjects do you think others are more advanced than you?
What are you slipping back on?
What frightens you about you?
What areas do you think that the competition is ahead on?
How do you think the market is changing away from where you work?
What bits of your job don’t you look forward to?
What are you hiding?

©William Barron
Creating Insight
Revision 4 April 2004
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