How to Maximize Your Strengths (And Your Team's!)

I've been frustrated with myself as I've been feeling like I'm not able to break through and lead a client of mine but through this frustration, I've found some of my greatest strengths. I want to walk you through that process so you can discover and develop your strengths and those of your team.

Start by taking something like StrengthsFinder and action those results to see how much more successful you can be if you start intentionally developing your top skills. I'm currently listening to books about how to be better at influencing even though I'm already really good at it!

And it doesn't stop with you! You can apply this to your team too. All too often as leaders, we have performance reviews where we're looking for the things our team needs to improve. What if we flipped the script and took the things our employees are already good at and helped them become even better? Then take what they're not so good at and see if somebody else would be a better fit. The more we can align people's jobs with what they are good at, the better off everybody is going to be!

What you'll hear in this episode:

[0:30] I have a problem that's keeping me up at night that led to an epiphany about focusing on and developing my strengths

[4:30] Why I decided I need to work on skills that I'm already good at

[8:00] How I figure out what my strengths are

[13:00] Find your own strengths and intentionally develop those skills

[14:00] Find the strengths of your team members and help develop those skills

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