I rarely watch Oprah. I like her but it's not often I watch TV at 4:00pm on a weekday.
I caught a show a couple weeks ago, though, where she discussed a session called "Take Control of your Career and Your Life" with Marcus Buckingham.
Are you stuck in a job you hate? Feel like you just don't have enough to give to your professional life and your personal life? You're not alone. Career coach Marcus Buckingham met with a group of women just like you to help them figure out how to reignite the passion in their careers. Now it's your turn! Take Marcus's step-by-step workshop and use his lessons to change your life.
There are eight sessions (about three hours in total) and they are worth watching. I like stuff like this so watched them tonight. The link for them is here. The workbooks used are here.
It's about focusing on your strengths. A strength is an activity that makes you feels strong and that you look forward to.
How to FREE your strength:
Focus - identify how and where this specific strength helps you in your current role.
Release - find the missed opportunities in your current role.
Educate - learn new skills and techniques to build this strength.
Expand - build your job around this strength.
How to STOP your weakness:
Stop doing the activity.
Team up with others who are strengthened by this activity.
Offer up a strength and steer your job toward it.
Perceive your weakness from a different perspective.
Every morning you should ask yourself: What are my strengths and how can I volunteer them?
In public
2 hours ago
1 comments:
i am a huge, huge, HUGE marcus buckingham fan (and, it's not because he's so darned cut, either...)
at hampton inn, we've been working to play to our strengths for three years now. and it has helped my career and my personal life in so many ways!! it even helped me hire an assistant who has strenghts that compliment my weaknesses. really powerful stuff.
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