“Strength Spotting” involves more than just connecting people with their strengths. In her September 21 “Let’s Get Growing” video, Bobbie La Porte explains how you can leverage those strengths in new ways to accomplish more, even if you’re faced with fewer resources than you’ve had in the past.
Video Transcript: Leveraging Your Team’s Strengths
Hi everyone, Bobbie LaPorte here again with this week’s “Let’s Get Growing” tip…where I help you take charge of your plans and accelerate your initiatives as you head into the end of this year.
This week I’d like to talk about the concept of strength-spotting, which we have covered in different contexts before. And heads up: I have a mini-assignment for you at the end of this video..so please stay tuned.
Many of you are planning for 2021 and facing not only changing assumptions but less resources than you’ve had in the past. This is where making the most of what you have is more important than ever.
Strength-spotting is a foundational part of building capacity in you and your team. It is more than just inventorying and connecting your team members with their strengths. It goes beyond this basic step to help them leverage what is good and useful, to think about how their strengths can be used in a broader way to expand what they are capable of…..moving beyond what they’ve done in the past, to what they can do now.
I like to think of this approach to how we deploy our strengths as “stripping them for parts” – creatively using them for what is good and useful, possibly in different ways that we had ever imagined or were visible to us before.
So, here’s my assignment for you: think of a situation you are currently facing where you are stuck. You are struggling with identifying possible solutions and how to move forward – given the current resources and assets you have. It can be challenging with all you have going on to think creatively about this – so take a minute to send me a short note describing this issue and we’ll work on it together.
That’s my “Get Growing” tip of the week. I’ll see you next Monday… remember to see this time as an enabler, not a liability or a time to “pause”, waiting for certainty to return.
Take care of yourself!