"Everyone has talent - what is rare is the courage to follow the talent where it leads" - Amelia Earhart

PASSION AND TALENT IN A PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT

You want to get to know yourself better & manage your own energy better. You want to discover which professional context you need to better use and develop your passion talents.

As a student, you want to better understand which study choice you can make, which course is tailor-made for you and/or be able to deal with the challenges of your current course.

We very often use the words "talent" and "passion", but where does the difference with competences really lie and how can you map that out?

TaPasCity has developed its own method for this, which is fully scientifically based and provides answers to the following questions:

- Who am I as a person - which values and norms are important to me also as a professional?
- What are my talents and to what extent do they (still) give me energy?
- What pallet of Talents & Passion do I have? And how much of it do I actually deploy?
- Which skills support my talents?
- What conditions do I need to use my talents successfully?
- Do I feel that what I do as a professional matches who I want to be as a person?
- Is there a strong connection between me and the organisation I work for?

In this way, we map out a holistic picture for the individual, the team and the organisation.

 

STUDYING WITH PASSION AND TALENT

In our education, we start from what children and young people cannot do. Then we map out what they have failed to learn. So we only work with half of our children and young people.

We want to identify talents and passion of children, adolescents and young adults to start from what they can. We choose to see those talents and passions in a developmental perspective. Children and young people should be given the opportunity to experiment with their strengths in learning. That is what we want to go for, both in schools and in private contexts.

We map talents by initially letting children and young people do it for themselves. Their perception of what they are good at and enjoy doing is the starting point for developing talents and passion. We choose not to do this at the level of knowledge areas (you are good at maths), but at the level of skills underlying all knowledge areas: skills linked to problem-solving, social skills and skills to achieve a result.

In addition, we identify what children and young people do when they cannot use their talents. This can be caused by the context or by too much stress. All the constructs we measure are mutually combinable, giving a very focused picture of talents and passion at that moment.

GETTING STARTED WITH YOUR OWN TAPAS

Starting from a number of tools for mapping talent and passion, we get to work with individual coaching of pupils. This can range from study choice, to study method, to a longer personal pathway, whether or not linked to a specific need, need or disability.

We work with schools to make their education more talent-oriented. To this end, we work with teachers (lessons or projects), with principals and student supervisors (school policy and evaluation policy) or with pupils (sample projects). Where necessary, we first work with the teaching team to identify their talents and passions in order to work on strengthening the team.

Talent AND PASSION IN YOUR ORGANISATION (BUSINESS AND SCHOOLS) AND TEAMS 

You want to gain insight into the talents and passion of your school or your organisation - separate from the individual talents of employees.

You want to know what the talents and passion of your team members are and understand the context they need to use and develop their talents so that they can grow as a team - both within education and in a business environment.

We reveal the true dynamics of your organisation in order to proactively address retention, keep employees interested and connected. That way, you not only keep your own organisation fresh and healthy, but also stay alert to stay ahead of the competition.

We set up a distinctive Talent Development programme that crosses competences and behaviour - and really wants to give space to and deploy the Talent & Passion of employees.