A Newsletter Valuing Change Next time, get it delivered April/May/June 2008 Newsletter Archive

Develop Your Talents into Strengths

Rather than focusing on your weaknesses, spend more time developing your strengths. When you focus and develop your strengths you:

• Are more excited and satisfied
• Like going to work
• Have more positive interactions with people
• Treat clients and customers well
• Tell people how great your job is
• Accomplish more with ease
• Have more positive moments
• Are more willing to take calculated risks
• Receive more acknowledgment and recognition

A strength-based approach to your work improves your confidence, direction and satisfaction.

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What strengths or talents do you wish to develop?
What steps will you take to enhance your talents?

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A Book Supporting Change

Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath is a book that can help you become more aware of your talents by giving you access to an online assessment. You will receive a report that includes your top five talents out of a total of 34.

The assessment report suggests action steps to help you build your talents into strengths.

Rath asserts that building your talents into real strengths requires practice and hard work, much like it does to build physical strengths.

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"You cannot be anything you want to be --- but you can be a lot more of who you already are." Tom Rath

Check out my latest published articles:

Giving Effective Feedback
"Giving negative feedback is a difficult, yet vital, management skill. The best work environments foster learning and growth, and giving and accepting feedback must be a part of that environment for improved work performance. . . ."

Soundings Magazine, Febuary 2008.

Personality Assessments: What about Them?
"Being able to identify a person's personality type gives you an advantage in anticipating how colleagues, partners, staff and clients will behave and respond. . . ."

KCBA Bar Bulletin, April 2008

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