Only 42% of employers have a comprehensive grasp of their workers’ skills, this according to the 2015 Talent Mobility Research Report.  When employers know these strengths, training programs can be tailored likewise.  Such strength-based employee development programs are founded on the idea that some people are innately better at certain tasks than others.  Duh!  Gallup has developed a Strengths Orientation Index, which discovered that only about 37% of employees believed that their managers focused on strengths.  What about the other 63%?  Would our training efforts be more successful if we focused on each trainee’s strengths, rather than trying to remediate weaknesses. 

To learn more, search for Kes Thygesen’s article in Entrepreneur magazine entitled In Professional Development, Focus on Employees’ Strengths.