This is a modified version of some findings that I shared on a training week with my colleagues last month and I thought I would share this on my blog. Some food for thought:
I’ve recently started to do some self-reflection over the past few months and have started to look from the outside in, looking at myself from above. I think we all in a way are self-centred or perhaps self-contained is a better word, and it can be difficult for us to see ourselves the way other people see us, as we are biased towards ourselves. I have also been looking into the idea of ‘strengths’ as a concept, my colleague and good friend introduced me to a more structured way of looking at the subject, and I took Gallup’s Strengths Finder 2.0 assessment, which is an interesting thing to do (link here http://strengths.gallup.com/110440/About-StrengthsFinder-20.aspx). I think we do naturally focus on our weaknesses or what we perceive as weaknesses, so focussing on your strengths is vitally important and each and every person has a unique set of strengths. The idea of actively switching your focus is really a very simple concept and something I’ve not considered up until recently, however the implementation of that information is a bigger journey.
