Here’s how you can spot your own strengths if you don’t already know them:
Feelings
Pay attention to the activities that give you a feeling of joy or enjoyment. That’s a clue to your strengths.
Energy
Do you suddenly feel energized while doing certain activities? If yes, that’s another clue to your strengths.
Achievements
Look at all your past achievements and see if you can detect a pattern of specific activities. If you can, these particular activities are nothing but expressions of your strengths.
Excellence
Find out what you excel at consistently. That’s a definite clue to your strengths.
Compliments
Interestingly, people can identify others’ strengths (and weaknesses) quite easily. If you can notice others’ strengths, they too can notice yours. So, if someone compliments you for good work, pay attention. He may be pointing at your strengths unconsciously.
Compulsiveness
A person’s strengths are like a blown-up balloon under the water–they keep surfacing. Sub-consciously, you may feel a compulsion to express your strengths. For example, if your strength is writing, you may grab any opportunity to write.
Ask yourself: “What do I feel compelled to do?
Yearnings
Like a magnet, your yearnings pull you towards your strengths. So, if you catch yourself longing repeatedly to do something, say, teaching others, therein may lie your strength.
Rapid learning
If you are able to learn a particular skill rapidly, that again is a clue to your strength.
Losing track of time
Not being conscious of the time while you are doing something is one of the most reliable clues to your strengths.
Ask yourself: “What do I enjoy doing so much that it makes me lose track of time?”
Feedback analysis
This method was suggest by management guru Peter Drucker. It works as follows:
1. Whenever you take a key decision or action, write down what you expect to happen.
2. Later, perhaps after a few days, weeks or months, compare the actual results with your own expectations.
According to Drucker, if practiced consistently, the feedback analysis will reveal to you both your strengths and weaknesses.
With so many ways to uncover your strengths, it is time you unleashed them to enjoy your work, give superior performance and savor success in your career.
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