Can you name your five top strengths? How applicable are these strengths to your current position (or the job you are seeing for)? Do they review a skill or strength?
For example:
Are you listing your top compel in a programming language or an diagnosis technique? Those are skills; not strengths. Are you listing your top compel in broader terms that define the kind of work you perform best? For example, do any of these words review you? Achiever, Analytical, Consistency, Discipline, Includer, Maximizer, Strategic, Woo? If so, these are strengths!
Ah, that's the key. Skills fall under strengths. We all can teach each other skills. We can custom and excellent them if we have the desire to do so. The skills we excel at tend to use our strengths. For example, a great project manager will be man that has a natural skill as an "Includer" and "Consistency" (as well as many others. The best project managers have great habitancy skills. This may include the potential to be an "Includer" to stretch the circle of the team to include habitancy (multiple enterprise groups) and make them feel part of the project team. This may include the potential to treat habitancy the same ("Consistency"), no matter what the person's skill or middle point in life.
What's curious is these two strengths, Includer and Consistency, can apply to enterprise analysis, a journalist, or a party planner. What skills you learn that fall within the skills for your strengths indicate which work is right for you...and how good you will be at it. If you select a job that doesn't play to your strengths or natural talents, chances are, your skills may be mediocre and your interest in your job minimal and your work success not that successful.
All this comes from a Wsj recommended book titled Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath. Gallup introduced an to help habitancy like you to find their strengths. Achiever, Analytical, Consistency, Discipline, Includer, Maximizer, Strategic, Woo are just a sampling of the 34 most common natural potential strengths or "themes."
Why is this so important? Life is too short to be miserable for any length of time. You want to be useful and productive to your family, coworkers, and business. You want to be appreciated for your efforts. You are appreciated more if you find positions and fellowships that believe in your strengths.
This is a two-way street. If you are a manager, you want to help your team use its strengths. Some habitancy are detailed oriented and others big-pictured. Sure, each personel may be able to perform the other performance but why would you want to make things difficult? habitancy that works within their strengths are happier, motivated, and perfect connected tasks quickly with better accuracy. Using one's natural strengths increases the desire to perform better. Why would you not want to align the task at hand with the man with that strength? Why would you want to spend high-priced time fixing the employee's (or your) weaknesses! Play to your (or your staff's) strengths!
Think positive! Think Strengths! There is more inherent for increase when a man invests vigor in developing his/her strengths instead of correcting one's deficiencies. You minimize the dissatisfaction one feels on a project. Concentrating on your weaknesses is like hitting your head against the wall. The pain stops when you stop! If you find opportunities to work using your strengths, you are move motivated.
We've all taken the corporate "opinion" survey. How do you sass the age-old question, "At work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day." Ok, stop laughing. It's no laughing matter when you realize that habitancy that use their strengths daily are six times as likely to be engaged in their jobs and are more than three times as likely to record having an excellent potential of life in general.
Don't blame the corporation! Your work is in your hands! First, you need to know your strengths. That will help you focus on the right job. You can interview the fellowships to see if the enterprise philosophy (and actions) appreciates the strengths you offer. You can tell if your manager will reserve your strengths or drill you on your weaknesses (and get out of Dodge Fast).
This isn't a magic bullet. Your character and personality as well as your learned behavior from your upbringing will influence your potential to adjust to using your strengths. Knowing your strengths is only a piece of the complex human puzzle. Yet, it is better to know and align your work to your strengths than get frustrated and a continual ill attempting to improve your weaknesses.
What's in it for you?
Well, it is the New Year and a new decade. It's the time to think about what you as a matter of fact want to do with your life. Should you make a work change or just change positions or company? Do you need to change at all? Are you focusing and wasting needful time on tasks that don't correlate to your strengths? Maybe it's time to spend in man (hire) that has the compel to do the task of a weaker compel for you?
My results confirmed that I'm in the right place, doing what I do best (funny, positivity was #5).
5. Positivity: Enthusiasm that is contagious. Upbeat and can get others excited about what they are going to do. I personally play to this compel as a writer, speaker and advisor to motivate others to take action.
4. Responsibility: proprietary of what they say they will do. Values include honesty and loyalty. I play to this compel in all my consulting assignments. Clients know that I will be true to the project; even if it means I need to sell out myself. Clients need to only ask once. I'll tell them what I can do (even if it involves work done by others) and get it done.
3. Learner: Great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. Curious in the process of learning. Look at my book recommendations. The recommendations are in the area of business, not technology. I don't plan on changing careers to be a full-time marketer or sales person...but I do want to learn these skills.
2. Activiator: Makes things happen by turning thoughts into action. My sister gave me a great card of encouragement. It had a photograph of man on a motorcycle while retention a long pole with many distinct animals on it. Face saying: You have some crazy ideas. Inside saying: And you make them happen! Having this compel is the surmise why I was able to start multiple companies, learn speaker skills, and get this ezine out the virtual door every other month.
And my #1 Natural Strength...
1. Futuristic: Inspired by the hereafter and what could be. Inspire others with their foresight of the future. I always see inherent in everyone. I see inherent for a enterprise as well. I can articulate what I see to senior administration and adjust the foresight to what is achievable given the reality of the situation.
The wide theme for the blend of these five strengths was to be a strategic architect, entrepreneur, coach, and consultant. I was surprised by this yet pleased. These five strengths review how I am distinct from so many others. That is why I am the best at what I do. That's my Purple Cow. It is what habitancy (and clients) notice, remark about, and spread the word to others.
Enough about me... What about you?
The only way to be "The Best" and be a "Purple Cow" among all the other candidates is to energize your strengths.
What Are Your Strengths?
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