6Do You Have What It Takes to Be in the Corner Suite?

Skills Broken Down by Title

Are You in the Right Job?

SOMETIMES YOU may be in the right industry or department but simply in the wrong position. The goal of finding the right job or role, or what we have labeled first-time right-seating, is all about creating a goodness-of-fit situation, where your strengths are the same as those required for the job.

The other side of job matching is when your strengths do not match what’s needed, or situations that are opposite of goodness-of-fit situations. When the job or task plays to your Executive Skills weaknesses, the task is called an effortful task. Though you may be able to do it, it will be considerably more difficult than one that plays to your ...

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