Identify your Strengths
The first step in developing your strengths is simply to identify them. Discover your skills and know what it is you do best. How do you know what you do best? These easy-to-answer questions should help illuminate your areas of skill.
- What do you do extremely well and quite easily in your business?
- What do you do that energizes and fuels you passion?
- What do you do that makes you and your company significant amounts of money?
- What do others (family, friends, co-workers) say you are naturally talented at doing?
- What do you do that is almost at a mastery level but somehow you get better and better at doing it?
- What gives you joy and time flies by when you are doing it?
- What do you do that is very valuable and special to your company, even if you take it for granted?
Develop a Plan of Action
Now that you have a good idea of what you excel at you can start to plan your business around further development of those talents.
When tackling any task, keep your skill set and natural talents in mind. If it involves a lot of skills you don’t possess, delegate that task elsewhere.
Hire employees who have strengths in areas you do not and let them do what they do best while you focus on what you do best.
The sad reality today is that many people who go to college with a dream to be engaged in work they are passionate about, end up doing something totally different. I believe people today are going to work each day, punching a clock, putting in the hours, paying the bills, getting that paycheck each month, but they are not really operating in their areas of strengths. They are getting by and surviving but that’s about it.
Questions to Process Today
What happened to your dreams? Why are you allowing life and your circumstances dictate to you what you do and what you don’t do? Are you feeling passionate each day about what you do for work?
You are the happiest version of you when you love what you do.
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