Coaching practices for Leverage Your Strengths
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I spend so much energy trying to fix my weak spots that my days feel like a grind against my own grain
- I already know what I’m good at, but I only ever use those strengths in the same few familiar places
- I pour most of my effort into shoring up the things I’m bad at and it crawls
- I keep forcing myself to lead the way I think a leader is supposed to, even when it cuts against my grain, and I can’t actually name what I’m naturally good at
- I’m trying to reach this goal by white-knuckling through the exact things I’m worst at, and it’s draining and stalling
Practices that may help
- Use your signature strengths in a new way
Identify your top character strengths and deploy one of them differently each day.
Positive Psychology, Made Practical - Use a signature strength in a new way each day for one week
Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Invest more development effort in your strengths than in your weaknesses
Move from average to excellent in your strength areas rather than from poor to average in your weak ones.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical - Identify your dominant leadership strengths — and lead from them
Know which of the four leadership domains you naturally operate from and amplify it rather than trying to be equally strong in all four.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical - Set goals that build on your signature strengths
Design goals that let your top strengths be the primary vehicle rather than your weak spots.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Lead from the influencing domain — take charge, speak up, make sure others are heard
People strong in influencing sell the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical - Map how your strengths distort under stress
Identify the "overuse" and "underuse" of each signature strength — how they show up when you’re at your worst.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Build a team whose combined strengths cover all four domains
Hire and assemble deliberately for domain coverage, not for people who think like you.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical - Bridge from signature strengths to purpose
Identify the top two or three things you do better than most people and trace how they can serve something larger.
The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self - Spot and name character strengths in others
Notice and explicitly name the character strengths you observe in people around you.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Character Strengths Overuse
Identify the "overuse" and "underuse" of each signature strength — how they show up when you’re at your worst.
Map how your strengths distort under stress
- Develop Strengths Not Weaknesses
Move from average to excellent in your strength areas rather than from poor to average in your weak ones.
Invest more development effort in your strengths than in your weaknesses
- How To Use Your Strengths
Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
Use a signature strength in a new way each day for one week
- Strengths Vs Competencies
Rate competence and commitment for the specific task in front of them, not the person overall.
Assess readiness task by task, not person by person
- Using Your Strengths
Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
- When Strengths Become Weaknesses
Identify the "overuse" and "underuse" of each signature strength — how they show up when you’re at your worst.
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