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Exceptional People Leverage Their Strengths
By JP Maroney | October 25, 2006
Exceptional people know and leverage their personal strengths. Rather than focus on their weaknesses, and spend all their time trying to improve those areas, they first look for and then concentrate on areas where they are brilliant.
This idea flies in the face of conventional wisdom, which contends that people should learn where they are weak and then work on improving those weaknesses. Look at the school systems where children are taught to focus on their weaker subjects in an effort to improve their overall grades and develop a “well-rounded” skill set.
Consider the traditional workplace where people are carted off to seminars, enrolled in training programs, or given books in order to compensate for their weak areas, while the areas where they are truly exceptional go unnoticed and underdeveloped.
Does this mean that people should not improve? Is this an excuse for lacking certain skills? Not at all.
Instead, every effort should be made to insure that personal weaknesses do not sabotage a person’s effectiveness. At the same time, great attention should be placed on discovering where a person is truly exceptional, and then making sure they are involved in activities that make the most of their strengths.
Take time to discover your greatest talents and strengths. Then invest your life in leveraging these areas of excellence in the service of other people.
Topics: Employee Development, Personal Development |
October 30th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
This is the same technique I heard Asian ping-pong coaches use. They do not focus on where a player is weak, but on where he is strong. They enhance the strength and ignore the weakness. This is how they create professional players.