1. Each person's talents are enduring and unique.
2. Each person's greatest potential for growth is in the area of his or her greatest strength.
3. As an organization or as an individual I/we can:
a. Reach our maximum potential only by using our individual strengths
b. Match my/our strengths to our roles at work, home and in the community
c. Enjoy what we are doing because we are using our true talents
Action Items:
1. Determine my individual strengths (and/or my team’s strengths)
2. Analyze results
a. Identify strengths and match to role (example: “Communicators” are probably our best teachers)
b. Identify opportunities to use my/our strengths
Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected.
What to do:
Identify their talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistent, near‐perfect performance.
When you exploit your natural abilities, you can't help but succeed. Of course, the converse is also true. Expect an uphill climb if you are always in "self‐improvement" mode.
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