What Are Your Strengths And Weaknesses?

What do you focus on? Strengths or weaknesses or both?

Throughout the world in most industries, it has been embedded into people (us included) to focus on the areas that we are weakest in, when it comes to our competencies. The idea is that if we focus on weaknesses, then we can try to improve those areas.

However, while we are focussing on weakness, we are neglecting our strengths. We are not practicing them, so we are not fulfilling our competency potential in those areas of strength.

The same applies in business performance too. Businesses focus on the areas that they are not doing well in, and try to improve those areas. By not focussing on the areas they are doing well in, over time those areas will become weaker.

Highly effective leaders want to fulfill their potential, so it is very important that they understand where to focus if they want to enhance their competencies.

When I began focussing on my strengths instead of my weaknesses, I could feel a huge difference in my performance and so could others.

Highly effective leaders value the highly effective leaders on their teams. One of the reasons is because they focus on their strengths and not their weaknesses.

As you are working on yourself every day, it’s time you start focussing on your strengths in the area of competency. You are strong in these areas because you don’t need a lot of effort to perform. However, your focus needs to be intense, not average.

If you only give average focus, your strengths will remain average. If you give intense focus, then you will become an excellent, highly effective leader. Highly effective leaders are looking for excellence, and that will be you when you start to focus.

When it comes to weaknesses, these are the areas where you do not have the natural ability to perform without a lot of effort. Everybody has weaknesses.

If you focus on your weaknesses instead of your strengths, then you won’t become an excellent highly effective leader, and your team will not benefit.

You will definitely improve in the area of weakness, but you will not be able to fulfil your full potential in your competencies. It doesn’t matter if you give intense focus to your weaknesses, at best you will become average, not excellent.

An average team member is definitely appreciated, but they are not as valued as an excellent highly effective leader.

When it comes to a highly effective leader’s character, they know that they need to focus on their weaknesses. Just like in the area of competency, they need to give intense focus on their weaknesses, not average focus.

A highly effective leader knows to work on their competency and character every day by focussing on both their strengths and weaknesses. That is how a highly effective leader becomes excellent, and will become the most valuable leader they can be.

A highly effective leader realises that by improving their character in the area of weakness, and improving their competency in the area of strength is their secret to success.

As you are working on yourself every day to become an excellent highly effective leader, and work on being the most valuable team asset you can be, focussing on your strengths in the area of competency and your weaknesses in the area of character will be your secret to success too.

Team members will hold you in very high regard, and leaders will value you to the highest level. The opportunities will also open up to you very fast.

Attendance went up, projects were being completed and on time, and every team member bought in to Terry’s vision.

I was so happy and excited that I wished I could have been part of that team and their journey. I helped them whenever they needed it, and it was a pleasure to lead them.

All the best,

Tom Lawrence (Highly Effective Leader)