The Power Up Podcast
Through this podcast, we will explore the biggest dream stealers that we come across in our work and serve up a healthy dose of the strategies tips and tools that you can use to overcome them.
Our goal is to help you find clarity, overcome your fears, play to your strengths and passions, build your confidence, and live the life you truly deserve.
The Power Up Podcast
1. How to unleash your natural talents and supercharge your success.
Introduction
In today’s episode, we're diving into a transformative approach to personal and professional development: focusing on building strengths rather than fixing weaknesses. This strengths-based approach is at the core of our philosophy across all three of our businesses and is proven by countless studies to be a more effective and fulfilling path to success. Join us as we explore how understanding and leveraging your strengths can lead to greater personal and professional achievements.
Together we will explore:
- Understanding a strengths-based approach: What do we mean, and why does building strengths trump developing weaknesses?
- A framework for understanding and leveraging your strengths and acting with authenticity:
- Know Yourself: Building greater self-awareness around your strengths and how to leverage and develop them for the greatest impact.
- Accept Yourself: Reframing areas in which you are weaker, accepting and minimising their impact.
- Be Yourself: Showing up as your confident, authentic self, and being more of who you really are.
- How leaders can build a strengths-based culture in their teams and businesses:
"Exceptional leaders are distinguished not by the absence of weaknesses but by the presence of significant strengths." - Zenger Folkman
"Focus on your strengths and make your weaknesses irrelevant."
"People who use their strengths every day are six times more likely to be engaged on the job." - Gallup
Other useful resources:
Books:
- "Now, Discover Your Strengths" by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton
- "StrengthsFinder 2.0" by Tom Rath
- "Strengths Based Leadership" by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie
- "Go Put Your Strengths to Work" by Marcus Buckingham
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