How to Identify Your Strengths: A Checklist for Success
How to Identify Your Strengths: A Checklist for Success
Learning how to identify your strengths can be daunting. However, having a good checklist to help you identify your strengths can make a world of difference. As I made the transition from employee to full-time entrepreneur, I used this checklist to help me uncover the strengths that would help me in my new role. Take a few minutes to go through this checklist to help you identify your strengths as you transform from an employee to an entrepreneur.
1. Identifying Your Strengths
First, answer the following questions:
What do you like to do every day?
Do people make favorable comments about what you like to do?
Are there other things that you do that receive favorable comments?
What do you like to talk about?
2. Capitalize on Your Strengths
Practice saying “No” to doing things that you do not do well.
Identify skills you can transfer from your job to your business.
Stop doing things you dislike, when possible. (Remember to outsource by building your business dream team!)
Leave your comfort zone.
3. Develop Your Skills
Take one step a day towards improvement.
Define expectations for yourself.
4. Determine if Weaknesses Matter
Center your activity on what you can do.
Know that you can do more than you think you can.
Avoid making excuses.
5. Use Tools to Help You Better Understand Your Strengths
Take at least one personality test.
Identify famous people with your personality type.
Read books that highlight how to use your strengths.
Find a coach or mentor.
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