Giftedness in Nonacademic Domains

Piirto, Jane

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-74401-8_19

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“…business, academic, mathematic) originate within a person, the extent to which they contribute to talent is affected by environmental forces (e.g. school, home, community)or the "suns" as Piirto (1995Piirto ( , 2008 designates these environmental forceshowever with the striking omission of work. In Piirto's conceptualization (1999) the apex of the pyramid is populated by the preordained academically gifted kids, the baseby the restbut equally deserving of talent development.…”

Section: Organizational Focus Vs Employee Focusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recalibrating talent management for hospitality: a youth development perspective

Golubovskaya

Solnet

Robinson

2019

IJCHM

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Purpose This paper aims to challenge existing assumptions in talent management (TM) research, showcasing a misalignment between commonly held assumptions and the characteristics of the youth-intensive hospitality sector workforce. Design/methodology/approach Following a review of the TM literature, Piirto’s educational talent pyramid is adopted to conceptualize a recalibration. Drawing on multidisciplinary literatures (i.e. adolescent development, youth employment, positive psychology), and adopting a (talent) developmental approach, a reframing of prevalent TM discourses is enunciated based on the logic that the hospitality workforce is predominantly in a developmental state. Findings TM discourses are misaligned with the workforce composition of the hospitality industry, which is dominated by young, often unexperienced, workers. The need for dramatically recalibrated TM structures and underlying assumptions, centred around a greater attention to the “development” of talent and a more employee-focused and inclusive approach, can facilitate greater alignment between TM and hospitality. Research limitations/implications This paper extends a body of work advocating for more inclusive TM and developmental postures. The contribution, via a hospitality industry context, has been to create linkages between talent- and youth-development discourses. Practical implications This paper outlines a number of implications, among which are a pathway forward for hospitality industry to rebuild its poor HRM image and conversion of “transient” hospitality jobs to career jobs (for youth). Originality/value This paper identifies youth as a distinct workforce entity and suggests that hospitality jobs represent a critical developmental context for young people, resulting in a series of critical implications for TM practice and theorizing.

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Section: Organizational Focus Vs Employee Focusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recalibrating talent management for hospitality: a youth development perspective

Golubovskaya

Solnet

Robinson

2019

IJCHM

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“…Taking into consideration briefly presented models, along with other, nothing less important one's such as Pfeiffer (2015); Piirto (2008); Subotnik, Olszewski-Kubilius, and Worell (2011), the Slovenian Professional guidelines for modernizing the concept of identification of gifted children, pupils, and secondary-school students and for workingwiththem (2019) define giftedness as an outstandingly above average (exceptional) characteristics of individual on the field of intellect (general or specific), learning (general or specific), creativity (art, sci-ence…), talents (specific art fields: music, dance…), psychomotorical or sensorimotorical fields (body-movement, sports), and on the filed of social skills and self-regulation (motivation, feelings, metacognition).…”

Section: Giftedness and Talentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The contemporary developmental models of giftedness (Heller et al, 2005;Piirto, 2008) and musical giftedness/talent (McPherson and Williamon, 2006) are focused on the context of complex factors including innate dispositions, socio-cultural environment, as well as cognitive and non-cognitive personal characteristics.…”

Section: Musical Giftedness and Talentmentioning

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Preschool teachers and musically gifted children in Slovene kindergartens

Žnidaršič

Kafol

Denac

2022

Metod. ogl. (Online)

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The aim of the present study, which involved preschool teachers, was to explore the area of working with musically gifted children. In particular, we focused on the identification of musically gifted children and monitoring of their musical development, preschool teachers’ competence for working with children, and evaluation of factors important for the development of musically gifted children. Research results showed that the majority of preschool teachers: were able to identify musically gifted children; rarely monitored and documented children’s musical development systematically and did not acquire enough knowledge for working with musically gifted children during their formal and informal education. Among the important factors influencing the development of musically gifted children, preschool teachers pointed out motivation to work with musically gifted children, identification of musically gifted children, cooperation with music experts and parents, and implementation of additional musical activities.

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“…Fourth, if students of uncanny ability continue to successfully progress along the talent development trajectory to expertise and even eminent status as a leader, the following factors become increasingly important: specific interpersonal skills, drive, persistence, self-confidence, passion for leading others, facilitative motivational beliefs, a willingness to listen and learn from others, and the dream of becoming a leader. Fifth, sustained interest in pursuing one's dream of becoming a leader and a commitment to excellence are critical to reach the highest levels; creativity is much easier to nurture and encourage if the student is passionate about becoming a leader and has a "rage" to learn (Piirto, 2008;Winner, 1996). Lionel Messi, as many readers may know, is an internationally recognized futbol player who plays for the world-renowned team, Futbol Club Barcelona.…”

Section: Creativitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth leadership: a proposal for identifying and developing creativity and giftedness

Pfeiffer

Wechsler

2013

Estud. psicol. (Campinas)

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There is a considerable amount of literature on leadership, particularly as it relates to organizations, government, and the military. However, educators and psychologists know considerably less about early precursors of leadership, how leadership develops in youth, possible gender differences, and the relationship of leadership, intelligence and creativity. A global consensus exists that leaders are needed and that we shouldn't delay the early development of leadership skills. The authors propose a model to enhance creative leadership and introduce a teacher-completed rating scale, the Gifted Rating Scales to help accomplish this. As demonstrated, there are possibilities to detect early creative and intellectual giftedness among children and youngsters in the classrooms and expectations to move from a basic level of competence to reach an elite or expert level in any field, facilitating the emergence of leadership.

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Giftedness in Nonacademic Domains

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Recalibrating talent management for hospitality: a youth development perspective

Recalibrating talent management for hospitality: a youth development perspective

Preschool teachers and musically gifted children in Slovene kindergartens

Youth leadership: a proposal for identifying and developing creativity and giftedness

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