Empowering Yourself: How to Identify and Leverage Your Unique Personal Strengths
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In a world where everyone is trying to fit in, it's important to stand out.
Empowering yourself starts with recognizing and leveraging your unique personal strengths. These strengths are the essence of who you are--the qualities and talents that set you apart from others.
When you identify and embrace these strengths, you have the power to create both a business and a life that is authentic and fulfilling.
Whether it's in your service business, or personal development, knowing your strengths allows you to make informed decisions and take advantage of opportunities.
Don't settle for blending in when you were born to stand out.
By empowering yourself and embracing your unique personal strengths, you can unlock your full potential and create a life that truly reflects who you are.
Are you ready to discover what makes you extraordinary?
What are some personal strengths that you can apply to support your transformational journey?
Identifying Your Strengths
The easiest and best way of identifying your strengths is a tool popular with consultants … a SWOT analysis.
This analysis is a strategic planning process, typically used to help businesses and other organizations identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to business or project planning.
Effectively applied, this process can help you develop action plans to support and enhance your transformational journey.
Back in the days when as a consultant, I was using a SWOT analysis as part of helping clients with their strategic planning, it was a really cumbersome process.
Typically, it started with interview interviewing the business owners to get a sense of what they identified as their business’ strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
Once I had gained a sense of the owners’ views of these factors, I prepared a questionnaire to survey key employees for input on these factors.
On completion of that survey process, I prepared a written report that consolidated the information gathered from all sources.
After review and sometimes revisions, this report was the topic of discussion at a planning retreat, at which the owners developed their strategic plan for the coming year or years.
Cumbersome as it was the process worked really well.
The same process can help leverage your personal strengths to succeed in your service business.
To help identify your personal strengths, here are eight essential strengths for success.
1. Adaptability
This strength is all about remaining calm in the face of expected and unexpected change.
To achieve this outcome in business it’s essential to develop and follow a plan that sets goals, and identifies the necessary actions to achieve these goals. In practice this means that when the unexpected happens, the plan is adjusted accordingly.
Invariably, that’s much easier than starting from scratch to address each new problem.
2. Collaboration
The most successful client engagements are collaborative, not just telling clients what they should or should not be doing.
This approach includes having difficult discussions to get at the root of clients issues. It also involves building trust completing agreed upon on a timely basis as well as helping clients contribute.
3. Communication
Effective communication starts with careful listening and asking questions to make sure that you really understand what you are being told.
It’s also important to watch body language for unspoken cues about how other people are may be feeling.
4. Creativity amp; Innovation
Creativity and innovation in business means looking for new sometimes more efficient ways to accomplish tasks. They’re curious and don’t mind when things are unpredictable. They encourage others to experiment, share new ideas, take risks, and learn from failures
Digital
Digital experts use devices like computers, smart phones, and tablets, and choose the right tool for the task. They can work with different applications and platforms, like Excel or Zoom. They can protect personal information and devices from online risks. They keep up with new developments in technology and learn new skills as needed.
5. Numeracy
Numeracy experts use math to complete tasks, identify important information, and solve problems. They know how to combine operations—for example addition, graphing, and estimating—to do complex work. They can use mathematical information to explain things and evaluate results.
6. Problem solving
Problem-solving experts identify an issue and why it’s causing a problem. They know how to break the issue down into smaller parts and gather the right information to address each part. They can develop different options for solving a problem, identify which will be the best, and evaluate how successful it was.
7. Reading
Reading experts find the information they need in different written formats like documents, tables, charts, books, and articles. They can summarize that information and use it to complete tasks. They know how to assess written information for accuracy, and whether it’s relevant to the work
8. Writing
Writing experts identify the purpose of their writing task and choose the best format and writing style to use, depending on their audience. They review their writing to check for mistakes, and make sure it has the right tone.
Value-Rich Benefits: 24% Discount + FREE Access
To save you time and money and also to expedite your breakthrough to success, I’d like to help with the following offer.
If you order A Simple SWOT Analysis for More New Business before midnight January 31, 2024, you will receive a 24% discount on the purchase price.
And to support you in your commitment, I will give you free access to my existing video program: The Best Authentic Marketing Practices valued at $331.
From my perspective, providing free access to the video course represents a win-win scenario.
Your win takes the form of valuable benefits added to the SWOT course. And my win takes the form of testing the marketing practices course, which I plan to repurpose in the coming months.
Gotta love win-win scenarios!
How To Grab Your Free Access
As much as I’d love to give free access to everyone who reads one of articles, my preference is focus my support on the top 1% who is seriously committed to their own success.
This being the case, if you are seriously committed to better results next year, you can demonstrate your commitment by ordering the SWOT analysis course, which is available at a 24% discount for a limited time.
Once I have received your order, I will send you free access to The Best Authentic Marketing Practices But I will send the access details manually, which means you can expect to receive it within a couple of business days.
This offer expires midnight February 29, 2024.
Thanks for reading this article. I look forward to sending your free access to The Best Authentic Marketing Practices.
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