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Working towards your strengths

Working towards your strengths

From the course: Thriving @ Work: Leveraging the Connection between Well-Being and Productivity

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Working towards your strengths

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- [Speaker] In our workshop we actually do the mini assessment, where people look at where they're strong and where they're challenged. I don't find people have difficulty understanding their strengths. Most people understand that they're pretty good at something. The leveraging of that becomes a different challenge, and acknowledging it becomes a different challenge. Most of us don't want to acknowledge that we're good at it, because I'm an egoic, you know? So, we know we're good at it, but we don't want to talk about it, you know, with anyone. When you think about work place and what you bring to the table, you'll probably be acknowledged, appreciated, and promoted based on those strengths. So we tend to leverage those more heavily in that environment. We tend to lean on them quite a bit. We also, and this is individual, We also can sometimes neglect what the challenge is, because we are focusing on, you know, utilizing our strength. Really smart leaders recognize their weaknesses…

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