I’ve been waiting all day for this session. I’ve loved his books and was at the 2004 Summit when he spoke about discovering your strengths. Plus, his accent rocks!
Marcus’ goal is to “Build on my strengths and manage around my weaknesses.
In 2000, Gallup asked the question “which do you think will help you be most successful? Build on strengths or fixing weaknesses. In the US, 41% strengths 59% weaknesses. You learn about excellence from studying excellence, not failure. In order to become better, you study your strengths.
**Video clip of Purnell School inNJ**
They use a strengths based curriculum for kids who have a learning disability. Kids from that school have gone on to Harvard and other schools.
In 2007, Gallup asked the question again. 41% strengths 59% weakness.
What % of people spend most of the day playing to their strengths? 17% in 2005, 14% in 2006, and 12% in 2007.
You can change yourself first. Then, change your team around you.
3 Myths
1. As you grow, your personality changes.
Truth: As you grow, you become more of who you already are.
2. You’ll grown the most in your areas of greatest weaknesses.
Truth: You grow the most in your areas of greatest strengths.
3. A great team member puts his strengths aside and does whatever it takes to help the team.
Truth: A great team member volunteers his strengths to the team the most of the time.
3 Skills to Learn
1. Identify what your strengths are
Take DISC, Meigers Briggs, Strengths Finders.
Take a blank piece of paper and draw a line in it right in the middle. Write I loved it on the left and I loathed it on the right.
4 Signs of a Strength
Success - What you do well
Instincts - Look forward to doing it
Growth - Time will speed by as you do your activity.
Needs - Some activities will make you feel fulfilled when they’re completed, not drained.
The IGN drives the S.
After a week, take your sheet of paper and take your 3 strongest statements and turn them into statements about yourself. “I feel strong when _________________”. No one knows them better than you.
“And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in the bud became greater than the risk it took to blossom.”
Let tomorrow begin with you looking in the mirror and asking yourself “How can I lead from my strengths.” Then and only then can you live within your strengths and make a difference in the world.
2. Change something (2 things each week)
3. Talk about your strengths w/o bragging and your weaknesses w/o whining.
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