The One Thing You Need to Know: 5 Ways to Leverage the Strengths of Your Team
“What are your top 5 ways to leverage strengths within a team?” – Ashley, from Urbana, IA.
Knowing your own strengths is the first step to leveraging the strengths of your team. Click To TweetThere are many ways to leverage strengths within your team – but knowing your strengths and the strengths of those around you is the best way to start.
What about you?
Do you leverage your strengths in a unique way?
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Thanks Marcus, just what I needed right now!
One of the hardest things for me to do is to share where I might need help. I think this stems from the belief that I was hired to do a job and if I cannot complete something it might reflect poorly on me. But what I have realized is that sometimes there are problems that can only be solved with the help of others. Leaning on others is important because they might be strong in an area that weakens you. Having a conversation with your team leader is often times a discussion about how we can be stronger together.
I have an employee who seems to be disconnected between what she thinks she can do well and what she actually does well. What she lists as her strengths actually presents as one of her weaknesses. How do I manage a conversation around that?
That is an amazing question! I’m going to submit it for a potential One Thing You Need to Know episode. That definitely deserves it’s own post.