So, what’s stopping you?
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 us living from our strengths:
MYTH 1: As you grow your personality changes.
TRUTH 1: As you grow, you become more of who you already are.
Your values, your skills, your self-awareness, and some of your behaviours may change. But the most dominant aspects of your personality will remain the same.
MYTH 2: You will grow the most in your areas of greatest weakness.
TRUTH 2: You will grow the most in your areas of greatest strength.
You will be the most inquisitive, most resiliant, most creative, and most open to learning in your areas of strength.
MYTH 3: A good team member does whatever it takes to help the team.
TRUTH 3: A good team member deliberately volunteers his strengths to the team most of the time.
A great team member is not well rounded. The great team is well rounded, precisely because each great team member is not.
Which if these myths has been the most significant for you?
Do you feel that you are still struggling with any of them?
What steps might you need to take in order to change your mindset about these myths?ÂÂ
What are your overall thoughts about this first step?ÂÂ
April 10th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
love #3 - just the slight variation is very insightful.
thanks for posting those! looking forward to more.
by the way, i had my daughter K do the StrengthsExplorer - I will post about it later but it was pretty insightful.
April 11th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I’d love to know more about what you thought to the StrengthsExplorer. Is this quite a new tool?
April 12th, 2007 at 2:38 am
I don’t know whether it is fairly new or not I read about via the Leading Now blog [you might like it too - http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadingblog ] Like the other StrengthsFinder tests, this one was eerily accurate with my daughter as well. However, it doesn’t draw from the same list of talents as the adult test. I suspected she was an Includer, but her test indicated “Realting” and had some language as an Includer, but not quite the exact same. But that’s okay, it was definitely fun for her to do and insightful for us as parents.