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Shawn Stratton works with organizations to strengthen leadership skills that translate into powerful teams. Founder of the LiveMore Group, an organization that helps people maximize their potential and productivity, Shawn has designed presentations and retreats for both small businesses and large corporations, offering teams of all sizes the inspiration and tools to flourish in this unpredictable, exciting economic environment.
3 Ways to Discover Your Strengths and Stop Wasting Talent
To be the most effective leader, you need to leverage your strengths and delegate your weaknesses(as mentioned in a previous blog ) or develop systems to address them. But how do you discover your strengths? Many people, even some senior leaders, don’t realize what their true strengths are. Many times, you are placed into leadership positions not because of your strengths but because of your formal education, number of years of experience in your field or with the company or perhaps you talked your way into a position you were under qualified for. One of the keys to being a successful leader is to leverage your strengths. But how do you know what your strengths are and how they can best support you in a leadership position? Here are three ways to discover your true strengths: 1. What Is One Skill You Possess That People Admire? It could be your negotiation skills, your organizational skills, your public speaking skills, your ability to build or fix things, etc. If people admire you for it, there is a good chance it comes relatively easy for you and you enjoy doing it. 2. What Is The One Or Two Things Friends Come To You For Advice On? It could be anything, from relationship, fitness, and travel, to accounting, or leadership advice. Whatever it is, you are most likely effective in the area and you should consider it a strength. 3. What Do You Lose Track of Time Doing? In other words, when do you experience flow? In positive psychology, flow, also known as the zone, is characterized by complete absorption in what one does. Academic literature...
How My Triathlon Result Will Help My Business
My recent triathlon result has renewed my desire (and need) to track the time I spend on my business. If you are like me, you have struggled with different aspects of work or life in general and after some time of scratching your head, or even banging it against a wall, you wondered why you weren’t seeing an improvement. Where you put the most time and energy, you get the best results. This may seem obvious but for a moment think about a few areas in your work or life outside of the job that you are responsible for that you would like to see improved. At work, it could be your sales leads, sales completed, productivity, your relationship with an individual or your team, the quality of your writing, or negotiating, etc. In life, it could be your relationships with a friend or family, your nutrition, your sleep habits or your leisure time, etc. For a week, keep an activity log, detailing what you are spending your time on in a given workday. For many of you, this can be surprisingly easy with all the different activity tracking apps available to track which computer applications and websites you send your time on. If your computer is on, these apps are tracking what you are doing. For those who don’t spend a majority of their day using a computer, there are several other time tracking apps available to download on their smartphones, which make it pretty easy to record what your time is spent on. After a week take a good look at the percentage of time and energy...
The Way to Discover Your Happy Place
Your ‘Happy Place’ could be a moment in time, a location, or a feeling. It brings you to a state of flow where everything is moving in the right direction. You may lose track of time, you are having fun and are living a passion. Does that place, time or feeling come to mind right away? If so, great. You can stop reading now and go there, do it, feel it! If you feel denial, resistance, or confusion when trying to identify your Happy Place, read on and I will help you discover how to find it. The other day I was listening to the Rich Roll podcast when he was speaking with James Altucher about many aspects of their lives. It wasn’t a classic interview. It was more of a conversation where they were both asking the questions. When the conversation shifted to what they want to be doing in the future, both of them said “I don’t know”, but they were thrilled to be working in their Happy Place right now and expected that to continue long into the future. Both in their late 40s, they have had what many people would see as extremely successful lives. James founded and sold several companies worth millions as a young entrepreneur and Rich was a Stanford swimming star and a corporate lawyer. But what appears to have shaped these guys the most is their catastrophic failures, James spending away his fortune several times and Rich battling a crippling alcohol addiction. Today, neither of these guys are doing the work or leisure activities that led to these extreme challenges. James...
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