Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance

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Research data show that most people do not come close to making full use of their assets at work -- in fact, only 17 percent of the workforce believe they use all of their strengths on the job. Go Put Your Strengths to Work aims to change that through a six-step, six-week experience that will reveal the hidden dimensions of your strengths. Buckingham shows you how to seize control of your assets and rewrite your job description under the nose of your boss. You will learn:

• Why your strengths aren't "what you are good at" and your weaknesses aren't "what you are bad at."

• How to use the four telltale signs to identify your strengths.

• The simple steps you can take each week to push your time at work toward those activities that strengthen you and away from those that don't.

• How to talk to your boss and your colleagues about your strengths without sounding like you're bragging and about your weaknesses without sounding like you're whining.

• The fifteen-minute weekly ritual that will keep you on your strengths path your entire career.

With structured exercises that will become part of your regular workweek and proven tactics from people who have successfully applied the book's lessons, Go Put Your Strengths to Work will arm you with a radically different approach to your work life. As part of the book's program you'll take an online Strengths Engagement Track, a focused and powerful gauge that has proven to be the best way to measure the level of engagement of your strengths or your team's strengths. You can also download the first two segments of the renowned companion film series Trombone Player Wanted.

Go Put Your Strengths to Work will open up exciting uncharted territory for you and your organization. Join the strengths movement and thrive.

What Customers Say About Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance:

1.As you grow, you become more of who you already are.2.You will grow in the area of your greatest strengths.3.A good team member deliberately volunteers his strengths to the team most of the time.4.Stop doing a weak activity and see if anyone notices5.Steer your job towards your strength.6.How effective you feel at an activity is a solid indicator of your strength.7.Look for activities that you are pulled towards and look forward to performing.8.Happiness and concentration are closely linked together. Nature piggybacks on existing infrastructure. You will grow the most synaptic connections where ones already exist.9.Needs point to how you feel after you've done the activity. Do you feel fulfilled, powerful, restored, or exactly the opposite drained.

I like the books that Marcus Buckingham has written. I am actually having a book club with the 7 associates on my team, and they are truly enjoying it. It is recommended to read the previous book in order to take the personality test, so you can identify strengths and work from that evaluation as you move through this book.

I my search for success and improved life, I have gone through all the Stephen Covey's work on the 7 habits of effective people, leadership & execution training; yet I still could not answer what my strengths were, which makes climbing the wrong latters in the first place.This book offers the other side of the coing, something to do with what you cant learn; talent. The thing is that you must read the previous book in order to identify them with the strenght finder included. Once you know your talents, read this book, follow the process and use the tools; it all makes more sence, you simply start seeing your self with more potential. AWSOME.

The book is great way to review how well one is doing at their particular job. If not happy one has to make a few adjustments or leave their current jobs or positions.

I liked the exercises in the book. I found this book useful from the very beginning. They provided a useful way to implement the theories in the book, so that you could really grasp what your strengths and weaknesses are. It helped me clarify and capture what both my strengths and weaknesses are professionally. I also think this model could be applied on a personal level, though the author mainly focused on careers. I definitely felt like I had a much better grasp of what I can be doing as well as what I want to do.and how I can delegate my weaknesses to people who enjoy those activities more than I do. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to discover what his/her strengths are and start using them in his/her life.