Hidden Strengths
Hidden Strengths
Unleashing the Crucial Leadership Skills You Already Have
Edition: 1
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 18 May, 2015
Available in all formats
EPUB
ISBN:
9781626562851
PDF
ISBN:
9781626562844
You don't have access to this content. Please try to log in with your institution. Sign In
Books like StrengthsFinder 2.0 have helped leaders discover their strengths-but tend to stop there. Thuy and Milo Sindell argue that focusing only on our best abilities neglects a vital development opportunity. Inside every leader are “middle skills,” hidden strengths that can be turned into full strengths with attention and focus.
Discover Your Strengths and the StrengthsFinder titles-has resulted in a very one-dimensional model for leadership growth, say Thuy and Milo Sindell. Their research and work have shown that, like everyone, you have hidden, undeveloped strengths that, if identified and worked on, can expand your repertoire of skills, make you a better-balanced leader, and significantly improve performance.
Everyone has what the Sindells call Default Skills, or obvious strengths; Deficient Skills, or weaknesses; and Hidden Strengths, or skills in the middle. Focusing only on Default Skills can lead to resting on your laurels. But trying to develop Deficient Skills isn't worth it. It takes too much time and effort to bring these skills up to speed-the ROI just isn't there. It's in the neglected middle skills that the most potent development opportunities lie. They're close enough to being strengths that working on them can offer a powerful payoff-they are Hidden Strengths.
Using assessments, exercises, and case studies, the Sindells help you identify your most promising middle skills-your Hidden Strengths-and create a plan to turn them into full strengths. In today's work environment, not growing and stretching yourself translates into lack of innovation, stagnation, and obsolescence. Relying upon strengths is like relying upon training wheels-at a certain point you need to take them off improve and grow.
Discover Your Strengths and the StrengthsFinder titles-has resulted in a very one-dimensional model for leadership growth, say Thuy and Milo Sindell. Their research and work have shown that, like everyone, you have hidden, undeveloped strengths that, if identified and worked on, can expand your repertoire of skills, make you a better-balanced leader, and significantly improve performance.
Everyone has what the Sindells call Default Skills, or obvious strengths; Deficient Skills, or weaknesses; and Hidden Strengths, or skills in the middle. Focusing only on Default Skills can lead to resting on your laurels. But trying to develop Deficient Skills isn't worth it. It takes too much time and effort to bring these skills up to speed-the ROI just isn't there. It's in the neglected middle skills that the most potent development opportunities lie. They're close enough to being strengths that working on them can offer a powerful payoff-they are Hidden Strengths.
Using assessments, exercises, and case studies, the Sindells help you identify your most promising middle skills-your Hidden Strengths-and create a plan to turn them into full strengths. In today's work environment, not growing and stretching yourself translates into lack of innovation, stagnation, and obsolescence. Relying upon strengths is like relying upon training wheels-at a certain point you need to take them off improve and grow.
Description
Books like StrengthsFinder 2.0 have helped leaders discover their strengths-but tend to stop there. Thuy and Milo Sindell argue that focusing only on our best abilities neglects a vital development opportunity. Inside every leader are “middle skills,” hidden strengths that can be turned into full strengths with attention and focus.
Discover Your Strengths and the StrengthsFinder titles-has resulted in a very one-dimensional model for leadership growth, say Thuy and Milo Sindell. Their research and work have shown that, like everyone, you have hidden, undeveloped strengths that, if identified and worked on, can expand your repertoire of skills, make you a better-balanced leader, and significantly improve performance.
Everyone has what the Sindells call Default Skills, or obvious strengths; Deficient Skills, or weaknesses; and Hidden Strengths, or skills in the middle. Focusing only on Default Skills can lead to resting on your laurels. But trying to develop Deficient Skills isn't worth it. It takes too much time and effort to bring these skills up to speed-the ROI just isn't there. It's in the neglected middle skills that the most potent development opportunities lie. They're close enough to being strengths that working on them can offer a powerful payoff-they are Hidden Strengths.
Using assessments, exercises, and case studies, the Sindells help you identify your most promising middle skills-your Hidden Strengths-and create a plan to turn them into full strengths. In today's work environment, not growing and stretching yourself translates into lack of innovation, stagnation, and obsolescence. Relying upon strengths is like relying upon training wheels-at a certain point you need to take them off improve and grow.
Discover Your Strengths and the StrengthsFinder titles-has resulted in a very one-dimensional model for leadership growth, say Thuy and Milo Sindell. Their research and work have shown that, like everyone, you have hidden, undeveloped strengths that, if identified and worked on, can expand your repertoire of skills, make you a better-balanced leader, and significantly improve performance.
Everyone has what the Sindells call Default Skills, or obvious strengths; Deficient Skills, or weaknesses; and Hidden Strengths, or skills in the middle. Focusing only on Default Skills can lead to resting on your laurels. But trying to develop Deficient Skills isn't worth it. It takes too much time and effort to bring these skills up to speed-the ROI just isn't there. It's in the neglected middle skills that the most potent development opportunities lie. They're close enough to being strengths that working on them can offer a powerful payoff-they are Hidden Strengths.
Using assessments, exercises, and case studies, the Sindells help you identify your most promising middle skills-your Hidden Strengths-and create a plan to turn them into full strengths. In today's work environment, not growing and stretching yourself translates into lack of innovation, stagnation, and obsolescence. Relying upon strengths is like relying upon training wheels-at a certain point you need to take them off improve and grow.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART 1 ABOUT HIDDEN STRENGTHS
- PART 2 UNCOVERING THE GOLD MINE OF OPPORTUNITY
- PART 3 HARNESSING YOUR POTENTIAL
- Appendix A: The Twenty-Eight Skills and Why They Matter
- Appendix B: Hidden Strengths Development Worksheet
- Notes
- Accessing Your Free Hidden Strengths Profile
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- About the Authors
Review quote
“Thuy and Milo Sindell take a new angle in the strengths conversation by tackling the question of why it's so tempting to focus on extremes-our strengths and weaknesses-while overlooking our capacity in the middle: our hidden strengths. Finding these unlocks one's potential to transform knowledge and skills into learned strengths.“
-Bill McLawhon, Head of Leadership Development, Facebook
“This book is a great companion for any leader or anyone who wants to grow to be one.”
-Beverly Kaye, founder, Career Systems International, and coauthor of Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go, and Hello Stay Interviews, Goodbye Talent Loss
“This book is a very practical, step-by-step approach to moving beyond the madness of focusing on developing weaknesses and getting by on strengths to identify and leverage our hidden strengths for personal and professional success.”
-Daniel Carusi, HCS, Vice President and Chief Learning Officer, Global Talent and Learning, Deltek University
“If you are looking to add inspiration to your own learning plan for professional development or you are responsible for helping individuals, teams, and organizations optimize their talents and performance, this book outlines a way to create leadership skills at every level of the organization.”
-Kim McEachron, Chief People Officer, Genomic Health, Inc.
-Bill McLawhon, Head of Leadership Development, Facebook
“This book is a great companion for any leader or anyone who wants to grow to be one.”
-Beverly Kaye, founder, Career Systems International, and coauthor of Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go, and Hello Stay Interviews, Goodbye Talent Loss
“This book is a very practical, step-by-step approach to moving beyond the madness of focusing on developing weaknesses and getting by on strengths to identify and leverage our hidden strengths for personal and professional success.”
-Daniel Carusi, HCS, Vice President and Chief Learning Officer, Global Talent and Learning, Deltek University
“If you are looking to add inspiration to your own learning plan for professional development or you are responsible for helping individuals, teams, and organizations optimize their talents and performance, this book outlines a way to create leadership skills at every level of the organization.”
-Kim McEachron, Chief People Officer, Genomic Health, Inc.
Similar titles
