1. Know your strengths:
You probably know where you're talented and strong. If you're unsure, take an
assessment which has a strengths-based focus, such as the
Character Strengths Assessment or Gallup's Strengths finder.
online personality asses
2. Work with your strengths...
• Always make the time and seek opportunities to deepen and broaden
strengths, ensuring that your skills remain up to date and relevant
.Continually align your career plans so that any leadership job roles you take
on are best suited to your skill-set
This may be a process of trial and error. You may never find a perfect alignment. but avoid job roles in
which you can only be successful by exceling
in areas in which you're weak and/or have no talent or interest, otherwise
you may be setting yourself up for failure.
3. And acknowledge your weaker areas:
•Decide which weaknesses, if any, are having a material and detrimental
impact on your performance as a leader
Commit to develop these weaker areas or try to change your workload to
avoid needing to use those particular skills, for example by delegating certain tasks to other people
your
Some leaders choose to change professions or industries to better align
heir strengths and weaker areas with the requirements of their job role.
4. Apply the same thinking to your own team:
• Help your team grow their own careers by building on and using those skills
which are their strengths
•Don't make them feel bad by focusing on their areas of weakness
Only have them focus on
Work and career success.
those weaker areas that are essential for their work and career success
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