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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Discover Your Strengths

clipped from www.strengthsmanagement.com

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The premise is that businesses (and people) are built on two faulty assumptions:

1. Each person can learn to be competent in almost anything.

2. Each person's greatest room for growth is in his or her areas of greatest weakness.

The authors offer alternative assumptions that sure make sense to me:

1. Each person's talents are enduring and unique.

2. Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of the person's greatest strengths.

People progress more rapidly in their areas of greatest talent than in their areas of weakness. Yet too many training and development approaches focus on making improvements in areas of weakness. How many performance reviews have you been through where the main topic of conversation was the areas in which you performed poorly and how you can get better in those areas?