“People are likely to do their very best when they have an opportunity to play to their strengths,” says Stuart Crabb, Facebook’s head of learning in a recent Chief Learning Officer magazine article titled Facebook ‘Likes’ Learning. Author Dan Pink brought that up a few years ago in his great book The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need when he said that successful people focused on their strengths and managed their weaknesses, rather than spending valuable time trying to improve their weaknesses.
Crabb feels that determining an employee's ability and performance potential the way traditional learning does - via competency, is incorrect. According to Crab, “It’s actually a fairly flawed assumption because a focus on competency-based thinking excludes the emotional component that’s present in every task and activity: How does this work make me feel? What’s really important is recognizing that meaningful work — and engagement — is likely to come when managers find a way to tilt the job and the opportunities in the organizations to the strengths of the individual.”
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