Talent Trajectory for Purpose and Potential

Decide: Clarify your AIM (direction of your career and growth)

Act: Strengthen your FLETCHING and CORE (stability through strengths and values)

Solve: Anticipate CROSSWINDS (limitations, blind spots, and external disruptors) and prepare for alignment

Why Use the Talent Trajectory for Purpose and Potential

People are the heartbeat of the organization, yet too often talent is managed reactively, slotted into static roles, measured against labels, or overlooked altogether. The result? Untapped potential, disengagement, and missed opportunities for growth.

DAS created the Talent Trajectory for Purpose and Potential to shift the way organizations view and steward their people. This framework is rooted in a simple truth:

Every individual has unique gifts, strengths, values, and opportunities for growth. When these are understood, aimed with intention, and aligned with organizational goals, both people and companies thrive.

How It Works: The Four Parts of the Arrow

The Talent Trajectory uses the metaphor of an arrow to represent individual and organizational development. The arrow has four essential parts:

1. Arrow Tip (Aim): Current Direction

   What are you working toward? Where are you headed in your career and with your contributions?

2. Fletching (Strengths): Stabilizers

   What talents, skills, and habits keep you steady and on course?

3. Shaft (Core): Integrity & Values

   What holds you together? What principles or disciplines define how you operate?

4. Crosswinds (Limitations): Disruptors

   What blind spots, habits, or external factors could push you off course?

When individuals know their 'arrow', they are able to aim themselves with clarity and confidence. When teams support one another as "a quiver", they can complement strengths, balance weaknesses, and align for a release toward shared objectives.

Supporting Company Development

Companies don't just steward financial capital but also are called to steward human capital.

Long-term sustainability for a company may be an unnecessary challenge without a clear approach to develop and allocate talent.

The Talent Trajectory for Purpose and Potential provides leaders with a structured way to:

• Evaluate Talent Beyond Labels: Moving past one-size-fits-all grids and formulas to personalized trajectories.

• Develop People Intentionally: Ensuring people grow in ways that are aligned with both personal purpose and organizational strategy.

• Forecast Future Needs: Just as companies plan financially, they can project what talent, skills, and leadership will be needed in 1, 3, or 5 years.

• Steward Resources Wisely: By aiming and releasing people at the right time, organizations maximize impact while honoring individuals.

Why It Matters for Sustainability

Sustainable companies balance performance with people. They don't burn out their workforce or misallocate talent, but rather they build systems that invest in, aim, and re-aim over time.

With DAS, organizations can:

• Align individual purpose with company goals.

• PRovide employees with a clear path to finish well as they release their full potential into meaningful work.

• Ensure that leaders are not only focused on short-term output, but also are focused on long-term growth, succession, and innovation.

Start Today with DAS

Workforce sustainability isn't just about filling today's roles. It's about preparing tomorrow's leaders. Companies that understand and implement intentional talent allocation will build organizations that carry them forward.

At DAS, we are committed to equipping leaders and organizations with tools like the Talent Trajectory for Purpose and Potential to ensure that every person has the opportunity to live fully, aim intentionally, and finish well so that every company can be a faithful steward of the people with which they partner with for long-term success.

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