Discover Your Strengths: What Are Your Strengths?

Jun

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I joined a book club at work and we’re reading Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book is about finding everyone’s strengths and focusing on them. People have greater potentials if they tap into their strengths rather than focusing on and improving their weaknesses.

From Library Journal:

The premise of this new management study, a follow-up to Buckingham’s First, Break All the Rules (S. & S., 1999), is that the most effective method for motivating people is to build on their strengths rather than correcting their weaknesses. The authors, researchers at the Gallup Organization, have analyzed results of interviews conducted by Gallup of over 1.7 million employees from 101 companies and representing 63 countries. When asked, only 20 percent of these employees stated that they were using their strengths everyday. So that they can take a test revealing their strengths, readers are given access to the StrengthsFinder web site and a special ID number; once they learn their profile, they can read the analysis in the book. A description of each type is included, together with case studies, and managers are shown how to handle various types. This book offers a unique perspective on successful management strategy and developing employees’ strengths.

The 34 strengths that are identified in this book are listed in the following table: