Leveraging Your Strengths
Leveraging Your Strengths
What you’ll learn
Skills you’ll gain
Leveraging and growing your own strengths can help you fulfill your greatest potential. In this course, leadership and development strategist Halelly Azulay will coach you on how to find and maximize your strengths to become an indispensable, high-value player. You'll gain techniques for identifying your core strengths, tips for avoiding common blind spots, and learn four different approaches to getting unstuck in a strengthless job. Additionally, you'll learn how to articulate your strengths to your team for better opportunities. After taking this course, you will be able to start playing to your strengths immediately.
Syllabus
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Components of a strength Some people misunderstand what strengths are. After this lesson you'll be able to identify the main components that comprise your strengths. 4m
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Articulating your strengths Everyone has a strong spot. After this lesson you'll be able to articulate the value of your strengths to you, your team, and your organization. 3m
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Five strengths clues Although there are assessments that can help you learn your top strengths, there are plenty of clues right in front of you. 3m
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Using strengths assessments Assessments are a great tool for identifying your strengths in a more comprehensive way. 5m
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Getting input Getting input from people who know you well can offer you plenty of insights. 3m
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Analyze your strengths You may think you can assume what your strengths are, but you may be wrong. 2m
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Assess your environment Does your workday environment and role give you the chance to be you? 3m
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Talk about it Your strengths should not be a secret. After this lesson you'll be able to talk about your strengths with your manager, your staff, and your peers. 3m
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Developing your strengths To achieve any goal, you must create an action plan -- the same goes for maximizing your strengths. 4m
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Assess your progress Regularly checking your progress can help your plan stick. After this lesson you'll be able to make sure that your plan has a chance to work for you. 4m
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Neutralizing your weaknesses With all the focus on strengths, what about your non-strengths, or weaknesses – what should you do about them? 4m
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Strengths and liabilities Is there such a thing as too much of a good thing? 2m
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Change your approach Sometimes, your challenge might be your own approach to using your strengths. 3m
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Change your perspective In some cases, your perspective may be leading you astray. After this lesson, you'll be able to shift your perspective to shift your experience. 3m
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Change your role It might be that your current role is in your way of maximizing your strengths. 3m
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Change your environment If you've done all you can to change yourself, your perspective, or your role within the organization, and it's still not working, you can always change your environment and take a different job. 2m
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Approaching management Talking with your manager about your strengths might be a conversation you've never tried, or perhaps one that didn't go as well as planned in the past. 3m
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Team strengths for leaders If you're a leader, you have a great opportunity to help others maximize their strengths at work and leverage their strengths for better individual and team performance. 3m
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Start playing to your strengths 2m
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
Awarded upon successful completion of the course.
Instructor
Halelly Azulay
Halelly Azulay is a Leadership Development Strategist, CEO of TalentGrow, host of The TalentGrow Show podcast, and author of Employee Development on a Shoestring and Strength to Strength. She is a consultant, facilitator, leadership development strategist, and speaker at international conferences and corporate meetings. In 2006, Halelly founded TalentGrow LLC, a consulting company focused on developing leaders and teams, particularly for enterprises experiencing rapid growth or expansion that seek a more proactive, strategic approach to leadership development. With over 20 years of experience in leadership, communication skills, emotional intelligence, and authentic networking, Halelly develops leaders that people want to follow. She shares actionable leadership insights on her blog and podcast, The TalentGrow Show.
Halelly Azulay
President and Founder of TalentGrow LLC
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