These are some useful and perhaps counter-intuitive insights I gained from watching Marcus Buckingham's class on Oprah. Buckingham is author of Go Put Your strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance and co-author of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths. He also used to be a senior researcher with The Gallup Organization, and co-created the Strengths-based approach to management that is now gaining wider acceptance.
- We grow and learn MOST in our areas of greatest STRENGTH.
- Your strengths are not necessarily all those things that you are very good at. They are those activities that STRENGTHEN you - i.e. make you feel STRONG rather than draining your energy.
- Each one of us is the BEST judge of what our own strengths are. To find out, focus on how the activity makes you FEEL. Drawn to it before. Absorbed during. Energized afterwards.
- Focus on GROWING your STRENGTHS and manage around your weaknesses. As parents, managers, and workers, most of us do the opposite. We spend most of our time and energy trying to remedy weaknesses in ourselves or others, and take the strengths for granted.
The following video fragment provides a very insightful perspective:
And the next one is a keynote speech by Marcus.
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