Coaching practices for What Can You Be Best at

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I honestly can’t tell whether I’m genuinely exceptional at anything or just decent
• I’m chasing too many things at once and my effort’s scattered everywhere
• I know there are a couple of things I’m genuinely good at, but I use them just to get by
• If you asked me to name what I’m actually good at, I’d freeze
• I’m at my best when I’m getting a room aligned and fired up

Practices that may help

1. Reality-check the best-at circle with outside input
   Ask credible people who have seen your work directly whether you have genuine advantage — not people who love you.
   The Hedgehog Concept
2. Find your hedgehog concept — the one thing you can be best at
   Identify the intersection of what you can be best at, what drives your economic engine, and what you are deeply passionate about.
   Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders
3. 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
4. Take the VIA survey and identify your signature strengths
   Discover your top five to seven character strengths using the validated VIA survey.
   VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
5. 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
6. Identify your two working geniuses
   Name the two of the six activities that consistently energize you, not just where you perform well.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
7. 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
8. Map your three circles honestly
   Separately answer each circle — passion, best-at, economic engine — before looking for the intersection.
   The Hedgehog Concept
9. Lead from the executing domain — deliver on goals consistently
   People strong in executing know how to take an idea and make it happen.
   Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
10. Use a challenge-calibration partner or coach
    Have a more skilled observer set the challenge level — your own assessment is biased.
    Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability

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