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Identify your strengths

Identify your strengths

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Identify your strengths

- What's your secret sauce? Each of us has a unique set of strengths that forms the basis of our leadership. Can you clearly articulate your top strengths? If not, stay tuned. Over the next few minutes I'll walk you through how to get clear on your strengths as a leader. Before we dive in, I want to share some really good news. There is no single set of competencies that makes a strong leader. In fact, in their book, "Nine Lies about Work," Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall tell us to forget the leadership competency models and frameworks altogether. Instead, they encourage us to focus on finding our own idiosyncratic ways of creating the outcomes we want. Being an effective leader doesn't require that you be anything different than who you are. It does require that you know what works for you, that you continue to build on those strengths, and that you find ways to put those strengths to use. That's what's going…

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