We are continuing to work through Marcus Buckingham’s new book Go Put Your Strengths To Work. So far we have looked at the first two of a six step process he guides us through in the book. The first step was about identifying and overcoming the myths that may be holding us back from living […]

As promised, today we will look at the ways we can capture, clarify, and confirm our strengths. This will be the final part of the second of six steps we are looking at as we go through Marcus Buckingham’s new book Go Put Your Strengths To Work. In case you have lost track, the first […]

Today we continue our journey of discovery into what our strengths really are. We saw yesterday that the results we get from tools like the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment are a great starting point for our journey of discovery. However, they are not our strengths; they are signposts pointing towards our strengths. So how do we […]

Today we move onto the second of Marcus Buckingham’s six steps to putting our strengths to work. Over the previous four posts we have looked at three myths that may have been stopping us living from our strengths. Now we start to focus on really getting clear about what our strengths actually are.
Whilst most people […]

Ok, tomorrow we will move onto the second step in the six step process Marcus Buckingham outlines in his new book Go Put Your Strengths To Work. Today though we’ll just finish up with a summary of the 3 myths we have looked to overcome which may well have been holding us back and stopping […]

Today I want us to look at the third of the three myths we’ve been looking at over the last few posts (see here and here). We’re working our way through Marcus Buckingham’s new book entitled Go Put Your Strengths To Work and have begun to look at the first of six steps we need […]

I want to continue the conversation we began yesterday about learning to put our strengths to work and move beyond knowing them to utilising them. Our guide for this conversation is Marcus Buckingham’s new book Go Put Your Strengths To Work. Yesterday we started to process the first of six steps that Buckingham suggests we […]

I’ve started reading Marcus Buckingham’s new book called Go Put Your Strengths To Work and thought I would write a series of blog posts in the coming days and weeks and invite anyone who wants to, to journey through it with me. Essentially, the aim of the book is to move people beyond knowing what […]

Yes, in exactly four weeks I’m going to be flying to Los Angeles for a week. My main reason for going is that I am going to be doing two days of training with the Gallup organisation that will officially certify me as a Strengths coach (linked with the Gallup StrengthsFinder assessment). I’m really excited […]