How Your Strengths Can Sometimes Become Weaknesses?

Hey you!

I know I have been quiet lately. But believe me, we have been working very hard behind the scenes in creating some amazing experiences for our clients across the country. That and life has gotten busy on the personal front too (Will share in a separate blog)

Anyhoo, we have been busy delivering training programs with a special focus on improving employee confidence. As part of that training, we have been discussing a great deal around understanding our strengths and weaknesses in order to communicate effectively and engage successfully.

There has been a great deal of conversation around when to tone up or tone down your strengths to match up with what is expected out of you. I love discussing this because more often than not we are not aware when we need to tone down our strengths in order to add value.

It is important that we play our strengths based on the situation and based on what is expected from us.

In my personal exeperience- I wear different hats, as a #MasterofCeremonies, #Speaker, #Trainer and #TVPresenter, I am expected to use different skills set in each role and it is very important to understand which #skill is needed where or despite being fantastic with your communication, you may still end up not receiving positive feedback.

I stumbled upon Excellent article that explains this perfectly, have a read-

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/smarter-living/how-your-strengths-can-make-you-weaker.html

Let me know what you think?

Have you had to consciously tone down on certain strengths to be able to perform better?

I would love to hear from you.

Have a lovely weekend

Love,

M x