Don’t assume that you have to make big changes if your current job isn’t a perfect match for your strength profile.
How could you incorporate more of these natural strengths into the work you’re currently doing?
Consider the activities in the work that you’re currently that are outside of your strength zone. What can you delegate? How will you delegate it? And to whom will you delegate it?
By gradually doing more of the work that’s aligned with your natural strengths and less of the work that isn’t, you can “spark” your way into the work you love.
This post is an excerpt from this month’s feature: “The Bottom-line on Rick Smith’s The Leap” You can follow Rick on Twitter at @RickSmithAuthor and his website is www.leapbuilder.com
For the full Bottom-line audio and transcript, workbook, author interview and set of coaching emails, check out The Bottom-line on The Leap.
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It can be fun and very enlightening to take a few different natural strength and personality profiling tests and notice what themes pop up over and over again. Here are some profiling tests I recommend:
- Myers-Briggs ($59.95) and a personality test that’s based on Myers-Briggs (free) that I’ve found to be pretty accurate. This test will tell you what thinking styles come naturally for you.
- Archetype Assessment ($18). This test will tell you what archetypal roles and stories you’re naturally drawn to.
- Wealth Dynamics profile ($99 – Aff). This test is designed for entrepreneurs, but the results apply just as much if you’re employed. You’ll learn which wealth creation style comes naturally to you.
- Kolbe A Index ($49.95). This test will tell you your natural style for learning and taking action. You can also take the test that will show you the careers and wealth-generation methods that are the best fit for your Kolbe style.
This post is an excerpt from this month’s feature: “The Bottom-line on Rick Smith’s The Leap” You can follow Rick on Twitter at @RickSmithAuthor and his website is www.leapbuilder.com
For the full Bottom-line audio and transcript, workbook, author interview and set of coaching emails, check out The Bottom-line on The Leap.
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Take Rick Smith’s Primary Color Assessment, parts 1 and 2.
- What color are you and what does that mean about your natural strengths and preferences?
- What parts of your test result resonate with you?
- Where does your current work sit in relation to your natural strengths?
- Are you moving in the right direction to get closer to your natural strength zone or do you need to change course?
This post is an excerpt from this month’s feature: “The Bottom-line on Rick Smith’s The Leap” You can follow Rick on Twitter at @RickSmithAuthor and his website is www.leapbuilder.com
For the full Bottom-line audio and transcript, workbook, author interview and set of coaching emails, check out The Bottom-line on The Leap.
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Sometimes other people can see your natural strengths more easily than you can yourself. Here are some ways that you can see your natural strengths by borrowing other people’s perspectives:
- Ask 3 to 5 colleagues and/ or friends to list 5 of your strengths.
- Review appraisal feedback, testimonials and any other feedback you’ve gotten from other people with regards your work.
What are they appreciating and enjoying about you and saying your strengths are?
This post is an excerpt from this month’s feature: “The Bottom-line on Rick Smith’s The Leap” You can follow Rick on Twitter at @RickSmithAuthor and his website is www.leapbuilder.com
For the full Bottom-line audio and transcript, workbook, author interview and set of coaching emails, check out The Bottom-line on The Leap.
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It can be easier to align your work with your natural strengths if you know what areas are outside of your natural strength zone.
What activities in your current work are outside of your strength zone and make you feel weak, tired and trapped when you do them?
Make a list and look to gradually delegate this work so that you can do more of the work that’s aligned with your strengths.
This post is an excerpt from this month’s feature: “The Bottom-line on Rick Smith’s The Leap” You can follow Rick on Twitter at @RickSmithAuthor and his website is www.leapbuilder.com
For the full Bottom-line audio and transcript, workbook, author interview and set of coaching emails, check out The Bottom-line on The Leap.
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Rick Smith, author of The Leap, says that the basis of being successful in your work is in aligning your work with your natural strengths.
- What activities are you doing when you’re so deeply engaged that you lose track of time?
- What activities make you feel alive, strong and free?
- What activities make your body feel alive, energized, strong and free?
- What skills have you learned with relative ease?
- What kinds of information do you have a super-human memory for?
- What activities do you like to do in your spare time?
The answers to these questions will tell you what your natural strengths are. And knowing your strengths is the first step to doing the work you love.
This post is an excerpt from this month’s feature: “The Bottom-line on Rick Smith’s The Leap” You can follow Rick on Twitter at @RickSmithAuthor and his website is www.leapbuilder.com
For the full Bottom-line audio and transcript, workbook, author interview and set of coaching emails, check out The Bottom-line on The Leap.
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