Let Your Strengths Shine! 

"Success is not the key to happiness.  

Happiness is the key to success.  

If you love what you are doing,  

you will be successful."  

~ Albert Schweitzer 

All last week, I was surrounded by talent. Not necessarily in the way we typically think about being surrounded by talent, although the people in the room with me certainly had plenty of it. I was surrounded by talent because I completed a Facilitator Training Intensive through CoreClarity, Inc. CoreClarity's program is all about talents - discovering  them, leveraging them, and developing them to their full potential.

If you know anything about me, you know that I LOVE to help my clients - and my friends and family, too - discover what is great about them and maximize it. In fact, my professional mission is to "inspire leaders to realize their greatness." A full week learning a program to help me become even more effective at this could not have been more rewarding, or more timely.

Did you know that 61% of the population believes they will grow most in their areas of greatest weakness? 61%! And it's no wonder, because schools support this belief, as do parents, as does the workplace. We are taught that we must fix what is wrong with us to be successful. Of course, we do need to "manage" our weaknesses to keep them from getting in our way. But the truth is that we grow, learn and develop the most in our areas of greatest strength, not greatest weakness. As Marcus Buckingham says, it is our strengths that are our "multiplier."

Over the course of several decades, Donald O. Clifton, creator of the Clifton Strengths Finder assessment and co-author - along with Marcus Buckingham - of Now Discover Your Strengths, engaged in a quest to discover the top strengths of the most successful performers. He and his team interviewed over two million top performers in all industries and at all job levels. What they found surprised them. There was no set of success strengths. Rather, the most successful people had this in common: They understood their own talents and strengths and built their lives around them. And further, the most successful organizations did the same thing.

The implications of these findings are huge: any person and any organization can be successful if they understand their own strengths and build their lives or their organizations around those strengths.

CoreClarity's In-Powering People and Teams program, created by the amazing Candace Fitzpatrick,  President and Founder of CoreClarity, Inc., gives individuals and organizations the ability to truly understand their core talents and strengths, and the power to use them to reach their full potential. The program leverages the Gallup/Clifton Strengths Finder assessment tool, and takes it to whole new heights of understanding and usability.

My recently obtained CoreClarity certification gives me even more tools to carry this "strengths revolution" -- as Donald Clifton called it -- into the world in a powerful way. From one-on-one coaching, to small team training or facilitation, to large group programs, I am eager to share this information and transformation with you and those you know who can benefit. Let me know how I can help you.

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