How to Leverage Your Strengths

Over the last few years there has been a lot of discussion regarding the value of using a “strength-based approach” to development planning. This approach is based on the premise that over the course of many years each of us has developed certain core strengths. Given this, does it not make more sense to select career targets that maximize your strengths, rather than waste time attempting to work on converting your weakest areas up into strengths? The answer is that it depends on the situation. The best of all worlds is when you have selected a career target that will employ only your strengths. Unfortunately, the more common situation we are likely to encounter is one in which at least some of our weaknesses must ...

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