Understanding and leveraging your strengths can lead to amazing results.
But there is also a dark side to each strength that surfaces when it’s lived out in an unhealthy way. Understanding these anti-patterns is crucial to healthy living and leading.
Stress and fear are common causes that shift people into a reactive fight-or-flight mentality. When this happens, these same strengths that can help us do great things become our go-to solution for survival.
And when we’re trying to survive, we can begin to over-leverage our strengths.
These are the StrengthsFinder AntiPatterns. Every strength has an AntiPattern.
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.
The Strengths AntiPattern Guide will describe 34 antiPatterns and provide actionable steps to overcome them.
The guide will be released summer of 2023.
As someone who’s struggled with over-leveraging my strengths, I have a strong desire for leaders to understand not only what it looks like to live from their strengths in a healthy way but also to recognize when they’re drifting into over-leveraging those same strengths.
I want you to thrive, living out the design you were created with. Understanding both the bright side and the dark side of your strengths is part of the journey to thriving in leadership.
By understanding the 34 StrengthsFinder AntiPatterns, you can evaluate and identify when you’re over-leveraging your strengths.
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