Talents and Abilities Notes, Quizzes & Revision

A talent is an inborn or natural ability to be good at something especially without being taught.

It is something you are naturally good at and you enjoy doing like drawing, singing, dancing

Ability is the skill to do a particular task that is acquire through learning training or practise.

Distinguishing between talents and abilities of learners in school

Difference

1. Talent is an inborn special skill while ability is a skill acquired by a person through training and experience.
2. Talent is God given gift while ability is a skill in which you put your effort and time to develop.
3. Talent is often possessed by a few people while ability can be acquired by any person who is interested.
4. Talent require coaching while ability require training.
5. Talent is hidden and needs recognition while ability requires development

Ways of nurturing talents and abilities

• Nurturing talent and abilities involves offering ways to promote and encourage people to develop their skills and demonstrate their talents.
• Everyone has a talent. However it is important to be in environments that helps us discover them early as possible.
• Once we have identified our talents and abilities, we should demonstrate and improve them as much as possible. Skills need to be practised and improved for them to be helpful in our lives.
• We can nature skills by engaging in activities like talent shows, creating clubs like drama, music and journalism among others. Sports teams can also help in nurturing sports skills.
• In a business environment, employees can encourage the workers to be creative and share their skills and ideas. They can also provide skills development programs that help the employees to improve and acquire more skills.
• Nurturing talents and abilities in a business motivates and encourages people to be more productive. This can improve different areas of the business and make it profitable.

Relating talents and abilities to career opportunities in the world

• Identifying our talents and developing abilities helps us to realise the careers we can purse in the future.
• Apart from having the knowledge to do something, we should also develop the skills required to perform various tasks.
• Having the right abilities to do a job is an important aspects of a person’s career
• Having the talent to perform the task makes the job more enjoyable since one naturally has the skill needed to perform the tasks.
• We can use our God given talents and abilities to earn living

Ethical issues related to the use of talents and abilities in business

Ethics is a set of beliefs about what is morally right and wrong

The following are some of the ethical issues relating to use of talents and abilities in business.

1. Discrimination......In a business environment, people should not be advantaged or disadvantaged according to the talents and abilities they do or do not have.
   
2. Harassment.......We should not use talents and abilities to treat people who do not share talents and abilities unfairly.
3. Unethical accounting......We should not use our talents and abilities to mislead or give false information
4. Nepotism and favouritism

Nepotism is when someone is given advantage for being a family member.

Favouritism occurs when a person is treated better than others because of one reason or the other.