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Title: Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
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| Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance by Free Press Used heavily in my organization - with great success!! |
I was first introduced to Marcus and this book during a development class where I work. At the very least the book should help you re-focus your efforts for a more successful and enjoyable life.
Highly recommended! |
| Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance by Free Press Thought Provoking |
| Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding PerformanceThis is a very thought provoking book. It is a very different way of looking at identifying job satisfaction. I can see where if the whole organization were to buy in it would be very beneficial to the organization. It points out that just because you are good at doing something it does not mean that you like doing it. My boss is trying to put this in place in our organization and I am excited about seeing it work. |
| Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance by Free Press 6 Steps |
| I'm not a business person per-se. But I do read a lot of fiction and non-fiction books. Recently I've been toying with the idea of starting my own company, and a friend recommended to me this book and I'm glad they did, if I end up starting my business I will definitely use the steps from this book |
| Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance by Free Press Practical applications for coaches |
While there are many reviews of this latest book from Marcus Cunningham, I am contributing my perspective as a Psychologist and Business Coach.
I have found this book to be the most practical and functional of the set of books that Marcus Cunningham has written. His other book in this series on strengths, "Now, Discover Your Strengths", serves as the theoretical foundation of the understanding of personal strenths.
The focus of this book is on putting those strengths to work. The framework Buckingham uses is a 6 step program.
This program includes:
1) Believing in the importance of developing your strengths
2) Clarifying and identifying your strengths
3) Finding the right settings to develop and apply your strengths
4) Identifying and limiting your weaknesses
5) Learning how to promote your strenths within a business team setting
6) Buidling strong habits to overcome challenges to focusing on your strengths
I read this book with the intention of finding the functional application of strength buiding. I found his chapters on Clarifying your strengths and Finding the right settings to implement them, very helpful in that regard. He uses personal examples, as well as case studies.
He suggested exercises to follow in order to clarify and then implement your strengths. I made successful use of those with a number of my clients who were very motivated by the results.
Buckingham makes a clear effort to give practical applications and tools to use in every chapter. He references his website www.simplystrenths.com for the available tools as well as offering the colorful resource guide at the end of the book.
If you are a business or life coach and looking for exercises and applications of strengths with your clients, this Buckingham book with be a big help. |
| Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance by Free Press Excellent thoughts to start everyday |
First, let me say that I love Buckingham's work and believe in his Strength Movement wholeheartedly. As a former school teacher, his initiative with public schools is phenomenal.
For me, the most useful inference in "Go put your..." is that everyday one should make sure that they are moving in the direction of their strengths (even if it is just one small step) and away from their weaknesses. There is a quote that I like- I believe it relates to playing towards your strengths...
"If you will spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field, you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less." Earl Nightingale, 212 the extra degree
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| Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance by Free Press Product Description |
| Beginning with the million-copy bestsellers First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham jump-started the strengths movement that is now sweeping the work world, from business to government to education. Now that the movement is in full swing, Buckingham's new book answers the ultimate question: How can you actually apply your strengths for maximum success at work? 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. |
