Your Strengths Have AntiPatterns
Learn to recognize behaviors when you're over-leveraging your strengths to the point that they become liabilities. And discover the path back to health.
Reserve your free copy of the Strengths AntiPattern Guide
A 5-day journey to living from your priorities
It’s easy to spend our day reacting to what comes at us. What if you could be proactive, intentionally making decisions based on your priorities? It is possible!
Our five-day short course guides you through the process of identifying your life priorities and scaling them day to everyday decisions. You’ll learn how to establish a rhythm to build good habits and grow a team that will be with you in the journey.
Compounding focus.
If your team could only prioritize one deliverable this quarter, what would it be?
It’s a difficult question. But now consider the impact of every team in your organization delivering on the highest priority every quarter, over and over again.
Focus is powerful, but sustained focus is game-changing.
Have the team commit to keeping a single priority at a time for the year. When they look back and see what they accomplished, they’ll want to do it again.
Keep your whole life in focus.
If the #1 focus-related risk is focusing on too many things, then the #2 risk is focusing on only work.
I understand it’s a bit of an oxymoron to say focus on your whole life. The point is to elevate what is important in your personal life.
Doing things right doesn’t matter as much if you’re not doing the right things.
When you get to the end of your life, it won’t be the work you’re remembered for. It will be the relationships. Keep the people in your life in focus.
If you want help focusing your life around what’s most important, try my free 5-day journey to living from your priorities.
Next steps for StrengthsFinder Focus.
As you learn to lead using your focus strength, you can help others move from focusing on the many to focusing on the few.
No more hearing leaders say everything is a priority. Lead from your focus strength to align others around shared goals and put collective effort toward achieving them.
If the #1 focus-related risk is focusing on too many things, then the #2 risk is focusing on only work.
Leaders with the StrengthsFinder focus talent can struggle with an antipattern of fixation. Learning the strengths antipatterns will allow you to continue growing as a healthy, intentional leader.
You are on an extraordinary journey to living and leading from your strengths. You can explore the list below to learn about the rest of your top 5 strengths.
Your Strengths Have AntiPatterns
Learn to recognize behaviors when you're over-leveraging your strengths to the point that they become liabilities. And discover the path back to health.
Reserve your free copy of the Strengths AntiPattern Guide
This post is part of the leading from your strengths guide that will explore how you can apply each StrengthsFinder talent to your life and leadership
Learn how to lead from your StrengthsFinder talents:
- Achiever
- Activator
- Adaptability
- Analytical
- Arranger
- Belief
- Command
- Communication
- Competition
- Connectedness
- Consistency
- Context
- Deliberative
- Developer
- Discipline
- Empathy
- Focus
- Futuristic
- Harmony
- Ideation
- Includer
- Individualization
- Input
- Intellection
- Learner
- Maximizer
- Positivity
- Relator
- Responsibility
- Restorative
- Self-Assurance
- Significance
- Strategic
- Woo
FAQs
StrengthsFinder
So do I totally ignore my weaknesses and just focus on my strengths?
Ignoring your weaknesses will likely get you into trouble.
Strengths-based growth doesn’t encourage you to ignore your weaknesses but not to spend too much time trying to turn them into strengths. Instead, you may need to find team members or systems to fill in your gaps.
There are strengths I think I have; why didn’t they didn’t show up in my top 5?
They could be somewhere in your list between 6-10.
For some people, their strengths ranked 5, 6 or 7 are almost even. You could also be misattributing a skill or behavior to a specific strength.
Should I pay to see all 34 strengths?
Start out staying focused on your top 5.
Seeing your other 29 strengths can help give you a fuller picture. But initially, someone should focus on further developing those top 5 strengths rather than trying to give attention across the list. Once you have a good grasp on what it looks like to lead from your top 5, it can be helpful to explore the rest of the list.
What’s the difference between a talent and a strength?
Talents can become strengths.
A talent is your natural way of thinking or behaving. A strength is a talent developed over time through knowledge, skills and practice.
