Tapping into strengths and developing a growth mindset is a resilient approach. To improve aspects of your lifestyle. You can ask “what’s going well?”, and then “what else can I do?” to make it even better?

We can tap into our own strengths and the strengths of others. Ask “what do we bring to the table that will help us in this situation?”; “what qualities skills, experience and relationships might help us?”; and “what else can we do, what else might help strengthen our approach?”

How can you play to your strengths?

Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?

Chances are, you don’t. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. We tend to devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.

Be confident and celebrate your unique difference.

Each of us has our own unique combination of strengths and if we play to our strengths we walk away triumphant. By identifying our strengths and leveraging off them, we can use what we do best to gain success.

“It is our strengths that provide us with deep satisfaction and sustainable successes.

Our strengths drive our skills, knowledge and behaviours. We will have success, accomplishment and fulfilment when we use our strengths.”

Play your Hand – Faith Ralston

We can recognise when we use our strengths. Notice when you are naturally creative, really engaged, and when you feel confident and strong.

An old way of thinking would have us identify our weaknesses and try to improve these. With a strength approach we decide what competencies we possess and look for opportunities to use our strengths more, in choosing our careers, at work, and in the rest of our lives.

With the strength approach we need to manage our weaknesses rather than make them a focus. Weakness is often a simple gap of skill or knowledge and we can use our strengths to assist us to learn new skills and build new knowledge. We would learn to reduce a weakness if it is getting in the way of applying our strengths.

Knowing our weaknesses will help us prevent failure, but not achieve excellence. To achieve excellence, we must build on our strengths, which are the innate talents that underpin our individual skills and passions.

Using strengths builds self-confidence and enables us to become strong, resilient and authentic.

People are often unaware of or unable to describe their own strengths or the strengths of people around them.

You can use this online tool to gain a profile of your unique strengths and learn to use your dominant talents to help you to do well, to have a path of better performance and higher engagement.

Clifton Strength Finder Top 5 strengths

Using My Strengths

People who have the opportunity to focus on their strengths every day are six times more likely to be engaged in their jobs and more than three times as likely to report having an excellent quality of life in general.

when you are not able to use your strengths at work chances are that you:

• dread going to work
• have more negative than positive interactions
• treat your customers poorly
• tell your friends what a miserable company you work for
• achieve less on a daily basis
• have fewer creative and positive moments

If you want further support to discover or tap into your strengths, please do get in touch. I’d love to have a conversation and help you with some ideas for going forward. Contact Me.