Successful coaching is not exclusively about improving your own weaknesses, but also recognizing and promoting your strengths.
Both strengths and weaknesses can be improved, because people with a growth -oriented way of thinking achieve their goals rather than people with a fixed way of thinking. In order to grow professionally and personally, it is not enough to recognize and use your strengths. But you also have to believe that these strengths can be improved. If you focus on your strengths, you have a better feeling of fulfillment and progress.
The analysis of our own strengths is often more difficult for us than the recognition of our weaknesses, since these are usually associated with negative feelings and experiences. We often take our personal skills for granted and everyday and are therefore not active in ourselves how good we are in it. Our general negativity bias automatically prompted us to look at our uncertainties and supposed weaknesses. We ignore signs of our strengths because we are so busy improving our weaknesses.
We recognize our strengths of things that spur and inspire us - and in that it doesn't have to be particularly good from the start. That could be the strengths we want to develop and expand. Our skills often also show through experiences and reactions of fellow human beings. If we always get the same positive feedback on a task that we do with great effort, that makes us take notice. Is there a talent? Or do we notice that people keep asking us for advice? Does this show our ability as a possible team leader? As soon as you are open for this, hidden talents come to light. And we can concentrate and build on that.
We should try to consciously incorporate our skills in our everyday life as often as possible. If we use them at work and in private, we will most likely achieve good results and even improve in the areas. This is a process that runs step by step and takes some time. Ideally, after a while, these actions become habits that we do without having to think about it.
Personal strengths can be expanded and used to capitalize on it and help yourself to success. If we use our personal strengths as the basis for growth, we will determine a positive correlation with increasing success.
