Areas of Talent Development
Human talent development includes five areas of development for the individual so that their education is comprehensive. These areas are Physical or Corporal, Cognitive-Intellectual, Emotional, Social, and Spiritual.
COGNITIVE-INTELLECTUAL
The individual must achieve an understanding of the universe, the world, the different cultures, and himself to be able to visualize himself in the context in which he finds himself, understand the development of life on the planet, understand the different ways of thinking and being and have the perspective of their evolutionary process. It is important to have a holistic vision of the world to facilitate understanding the new paradigms of science since they show us a creative way of using our thinking through a synthesis approach that facilitates man’s approach to wisdom.
SOCIAL
Man lives and develops in society. The social environment should be the setting for the student to test his will and desire for inner growth. The Human Development Program classes are meetings for feedback between people working in a similar purpose and enrich each other by sharing their experiences and capacities. The development of social skills is essential to establish harmonious relationships and carry out positive and supportive actions in every social nucleus where they are (family, friends, work environment, study companions, neighbors, etc.).
SPIRITUAL
According to the holistic vision of human development, the process’s axis is the spiritual aspect of the individual. This area’s development consists of the realization of universal values and virtues such as love, respect, tolerance, and peace, and others that help to establish a full and harmonious life. Spirituality is at the base of the perfecting tendency that every human being possesses since the intuition of the absolute – of that force of infinite love that sustains and connects the entire universe – is present in the desire and effort of realization, learning, and self-transcendence that every person possesses.
EMOTIONAL
In the emotional area, reside a good part of the impulses that lead man to act; therefore, this aspect cannot remain excluded from the educational process. The emotional area of the person requires a harmonious deployment to become a source of motivation for integral development. The balanced development of man in the community requires the cultivation and healthy management of his emotions and feelings for a harmonious relationship.
PHYSICAL OR BODY
Health is the result of our organic unity that encompasses the physical faculties and the psychic ones. Physical education goes beyond the practice of any sport. It should cover all the areas necessary for the individual’s health to be optimal, such as hygiene, nutrition, and physical exercise. This is intended for the individual to fully know his body, it’s functioning, and the most efficient way to keep it healthy, sensitive, and with enough joy to act in the world.
Areas of early development and stimulation
Since they are in the womb mother, babies require significant stimulus for growth and development. U once born, need more stimulation as it is when you start forming skills or areas of development.
What are the baby’s areas of development?
All babies have a range of skills innate, we call reflexes, but others are acquired during the first years of life. The latter comprises language skills ( linguistics), motor, and socio-affective.
Psychomotor development is a process that, although it has a similar sequence in all boys and girls, can occur at a different rate in each one. Next, we are going to talk about each of the skills that make up this process:
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The area language is to related to the ability of humans to communicate by sound and symbols. This process begins in babies with crying, then moans, babbling, gestures or movements, and finally, words.
The language is a skill learned so naturally in the early years; girls and boys begin to speak in interaction with adults. P or it is important you constantly talk, Articular well the words, sing and name each activity performed or every object handled. In this way, the children recognize the sounds of the adult’s speech and then imitate it.
Motor skills
The motor area’s development refers to all the senses and movements of children: hearing, vision, touch, taste, and smell. A through the interaction with the media and children knows the color, shapes, textures, sounds, taste, and smell of things.
Gross motor development refers to the control of the body’s general muscular movements that leads children to be able to move on their own. Includes, for example, the head’s control, sit down, turn on itself, crawl, stand, walk, jump, throw a ball, among others.
On the other hand, fine motor development refers to working with small muscles that perform specific and highly controlled movements, such as the palms of the hands and fingers. These muscles allow you to lift objects, achieve manual eye coordination (that is, between the eyes and the hands), speak, move the eyes and allow girls and boys to know the world and make contact with it.
Socio-affective skills
This area is the ability of boys and girls to recognize and express their emotions and feelings. It is very important because its development is what allows socialization and the establishment of affective bonds.
What is early intervention?
Early stimulation is exercises, games, and activities with the baby in his first months and years of life that has n as an objective to develop and enhance brain function. Early stimulation serves to leverage the maximum capacity for learning and adapting the baby more easily, quickly, and intensely and its benefits are physical, emotional, and intellectual.
Early stimulation: areas of development and recommendations
To promote children’s optimal development, stimulation activities focus on four areas: cognitive, motor, language, and socio-emotional.
The cognitive area will allow us to understand, relate, adapt to new situations, use thought, and directly interact with objects and the world surrounding it. To develop this area, experiences are needed, so children can develop their levels of thinking, their ability to reason, pay attention, follow instructions, and react quickly to various situations.
The motor area is related to the ability to move, allowing contact with the world, and includes the coordination between what is seen and what is touched, making it capable of taking objects, drawing, etc. To develop this area, it is necessary to let the child touch, manipulate objects, and explore while still setting limits against possible risks.
The language area refers to the skills that will allow children to communicate with their environment and encompasses three aspects, comprehension, expressive and gestural capacity.
The socio-emotional area includes the child’s affective experiences and socialization that will allow him to relate to others taking into account common norms. The participation of parents and teachers is essential as the first generators of affective bonds. It is important to provide them with security, care, attention, and masters, in addition to serving as a reference to learn to behave in front of others.
Play is key for all these aspects: it gives children knowledge and experiences and helps them develop curiosity and self-confidence. According to UNICEF, the most important method for children to develop and learn is in contact with their peers and with their parents and through play.
Professional development areas
Until a few years ago, most people developed professionally within a single company. They began their professional careers in it and progressively promoted until the moment of retirement.
Currently, this type of development is unfeasible. The high unemployment rate, together with the difficulties of promotion within the same company and the organizational restructuring of companies promoted by the economic crisis, make it frequent today to change jobs. It also seems that this dynamic is going to settle in our society.
For this reason, It is no longer valid only to have the required training or the necessary skills; now, it is necessary to stand out from the rest and adapt to the profile requested by companies at all times.
To enhance employability, it is necessary to know yourself as a professional. Identify those areas of development that make you the ideal candidate and those that make you weaker. Strengthening your capabilities and improving your weak points will be your goals to be more employable or valuable in your company.
Analyze your areas of development
According to the Infoempleo report carried out in collaboration with Adecco, where the situation of the Spanish labor market is analyzed, the relationship between employability and a series of skills stands out, including:
1. Specialized knowledge:
Specialized knowledge of the job. Training plays a fundamental role. According to this report, 85% of the companies value having specialized knowledge, and 5.9% of the offers request postgraduate training or similar. Postgraduate programs are most in-demand for managerial positions, with 13% of job offers including essential requirements.
Efficient handling of new technologies. It is the second most valued requirement in terms of knowledge (49%). Regardless of the sector, knowledge, and management of computer applications has become a fundamental requirement.
Knowledge of languages. Approximately 31% of job offers include knowledge of a language as a requirement. Most value this type of knowledge are Export, General Management, Administration and Finance, and Marketing. However, even if it is not an essential requirement for the position, it is always valued positively. The company may also be considering its internationalization, so your knowledge in this area will be key during the process.
2. Organizational skills:
Analysis capacity. Identifying key ideas, understanding them, and applying them properly, are highly valued procedures (60%), especially for technical positions.
Frustration tolerance. Sometimes things don’t go as expected for reasons beyond our control. Knowing how to handle emotions and not being carried away by disappointment or impulses are taken into account.
Team management. It is the most valued requirement in managerial positions (86%). From planning the strategy, organizing it, prioritizing and making decisions to guiding your team to achieve a common goal are some of the skills that make up this ability
3. Relational skills:
Teamwork. The ability to work in a team is the most valued by recruitment staff, with 70%. Do not confuse working in a group with working in a team. The latter implies working in a coordinated way to achieve an objective, contributing the best of each one, and reaching agreements among all.
Communication skills. This skill is the second most valued in general (68%), but its importance increases in managerial positions (79%). Possessing this type of ability does mean knowing how to speak not only well but also further. It involves knowing how to actively listen, understand what they are saying to you, and, of course, knowing what, how, when, and where to say things.
Specialized training as a basis for promoting employability.
As the report exposes, specialized training is the requirement most valued by companies, therefore your starting point. Recycling and continuous training are essential tools to enhance your employability since you must not allow your knowledge to become obsolete if you want to remain in the job market.
However, according to research done by EAE Business School on the employability of the qualified population, the recycling of knowledge in Spain is below the European average. This same report indicates that managers and professionals are the ones that recycle the most, but they continue to be at a lower percentage than the European average.
The most important areas for talent development
The trend of work in recent years leans towards a more collaborative approach.
It is still difficult for companies to find candidates who meet the skills and qualities most valued today.
Finding employees with the ability to work in a team has become one of the companies’ main needs.
In the digital transformation scenario in which we find ourselves, many conceptions have changed. We presently live in a hyper-connected society in which immediate communication has become one of the main features. Also, this must be added to an increasingly clear trend towards collaboration, both in education and in the business world.
Although they continue to highly value the academic qualities of potential employees, today, companies have started a new path when it comes to selecting candidates.
Some of the main challenges for 2018 are these:
But there are even more challenges that are posed for 2018 in terms of human talent management. The above human talent management model has indeed proven to be effective. However, it is currently necessary to find new models that better adapt to digitally native companies and clients’ new demands.
Adjusting to the new needs of the market is the key to responding to the demands of talent that exist today. In this way, it would also be possible to boost the productivity and personal development of this new type of professionals who, in addition to training, value skills beyond soft skills.
Why is it necessary for these changes to begin in 2018? Because due to the rapid evolution of the business world and the trends in the labor market, it is necessary for companies’ human resources departments before new trends become obsolete.
The Human Resources department must become a fundamental ally of the company. Your work can help boost company productivity and enhance people’s professional development while preparing for changes in the marketplace.
Opting for efficient talent management can help companies achieve their most important goals. It does not only lead to increasing their productivity. It can also help generate better relationships in companies, make companies more competitive, and generate a situation of well-being among workers.
The development of territories in the context of the demographic crisis depends on labor productivity growth under the influence of various innovative technologies.
The slowdown in the development of the world economy is due to:
- A decrease in the number of the able-bodied population.
- A drop in the growth rate of labor productivity.
- A decrease in funding for applied and basic research.
- Environmental restrictions associated with costs.
The US scientific and technological development strategy aims to reduce the export of high-tech industries abroad and reduce dependence on fuel imports. Also, the United States remains a priority in developing nano-, bio-, information, and cognitive technologies.
Japan has an impact on the development of the world economy. Its scientific and technical strategy until 2010 was aimed primarily at life science; ICT (information and communication technologies); ecology; nanotechnology/materials science. Today, the main priority areas in this country’s scientific and technical sphere are life science and ecology.
Germany’s innovation policy is largely to maintain a competitive advantage in the development of mechanical engineering and environmental technologies. National security issues also remain basic for all state ones; therefore, developing innovative technologies in this area is one of the priority areas.
The priorities of scientific and technological development in France are aimed at nanotechnology, biotechnology, improvement of information, and communication technologies.
For the UK, the main direction in developing scientific and technological progress is the search for new markets that will use the unrealized potential of the competitiveness of the British economy.
The main problems hindering the country’s innovative development include: the reduction of the scientific and technical base, based on the achievements of Soviet science; the gap between the needs of the business sector for new technologies with the number of proposals that the research sector provides today; passive participation of business in investing in scientific and technical groundwork, which is associated with a high degree of uncertainty in the implementation of new results and the timing of such projects; development of new instruments of state support for the scientific and technical sector to obtain creative results lack healthy competition between researchers and teams in the distribution of funds for research;
The development and improvement of production technologies require obtaining new research data on objects and mechanisms, new laboratories, and test results that will be used to create new products. The pre-commercial stage of research is of particular importance. New products are not developed at this stage, but it is the basis, and its results directly affect the creation of new products and technologies in the future.
For a more efficient distribution of budget funds, it is necessary:
1. To develop a system of technological forecasting and research planning, which is based on the needs of the state authorities of the Russian Federation, companies, and business representatives.
2. Active participation of consumers of the results of research and development work in extended meetings on improving the state’s innovation policy.
3. Acquaintance of customers with the research results and Control over the implementation of projects on their part at all stages of the task (including the stage of research and development), acceptance, evaluation of work, and planning of the use of the results obtained.
4. Development of mechanisms for disseminating the obtained research results among potential consumers (the implementation of the obtained research by the customers will allow attracting additional funds for new developments). Control and coordination of activities to prevent double financing of works.
It is now very important to develop international relations between Russian and foreign research organizations. Cooperation with international research organizations will provide access to research equipment, information, and communication technologies and provide an opportunity to form a promising scientific and technical groundwork.
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