Potential, comfort zone, and actual job performance

Here’s a game: give yourself a score for the follwoing three things, if you take your potential as a ten:

  • where is your current job requirement relative to that?
  • where is your current job performance relative to the above two?
  • and where is your comfort zone?

You could even draw them as four concentric circles….

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Ideally your circles would look like this:

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Job Requirement is slightly larger than your comfort zone

Your actual performance is slightly larger than your job requirement

Your potential is only slightly higher than your job performance

Here are seven things you don’t want to see:

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Do you need a more or less demanding job? Can you develop your skills so as to pefrorm better at your job? Should you come out of your comfort zone more in order to build it up?

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