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These can then be recombined or developed to match the demands of progress or changing conditions.
Knowing your dependable strengths helps in creating career satisfaction and success.
By knowing your core strengths you are able to manage the flexibility that todays workforce calls for. Motivated skills Unmotivated skills Productivity would increase by 40% if people were in jobs they did well and enjoyed!
People generally use less than 20% of their potential. 80% is hidden and rarely brought into awareness.
Potential Prevention
Societal Bias Traditional language Job titles Job applications and other forms
Good Experience
Something
well. Something you enjoyed doing. Something you were proud of.
Important Note
Good Experiences are things that you actively made happen. Good Experiences can come from any part of your life (leisure, school, work, hobbies, etc.). Good Experiences can come from any time in your life.
Accept yourself as unique in the kind of excellence always growing in you. Elements of your excellence have been demonstrated from time to time in your life, most likely in experiences you feel are your achievements. By carefully identifying and studying your achievements you will uncover a pattern of strengths and talents. The pattern theory. This pattern of strengths indicates the kind of career activities that are likely to be a part of your future achievements, regardless of your job title.
A Dependable Strength typically shows up 3 or more times in your top 7 Good Experiences.
You are energized by it. It is inner motivated. You almost cannot help using it whenever possible.
Reality Test
This is your proof of the Dependable Strengths that you possess. The more proofs, the more dependable!
Success & security means being prepared for change. Know the package of skills and strengths you really possess.
By uncovering your Dependable Strengths, you become free to use, develop, or combine them in different ways to accommodate change. Change, then, comes to mean adaptation, flexibility, and opportunity, rather than the unknown and feared. This is true career success.
In the best of jobs, there will be some parts that you dislike. Even at the best party someone has to do the dishes.
This approach assumes there is excellence in everyone and dignity in all work. What you dislike, perhaps do badly, there are others who can do it well! Your poison may just be someone elses cup of tea.
Tell your story from your authentic self You are more than your job title Clearly articulate your dependable strengths and the types of things you have done to support those strengths. When you talk about your dependable strengths, you speak with passion and interest --- this is what people remember. You want to be remembered and referred.
Final Thoughts
By knowing your dependable strengths you are better able to articulate your worth and value --most business interactions look for value-added. By growing your dependable strengths you increase your potential and enhance your levels of success. Working on your weaknesses or unmotivated skills may only bring an individual to an average level of functioning. Focus on your successes!
Old tradition says, Find out what you did wrong and never do it again. New tradition says, Find out what you did right, so you can be sure to do it again. One way suggests going forward while looking back over your shoulder. The new way suggests a person find safe footholds and continue to climb.