Best Trengths Podcasts (2023)

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Lead Through Strengths

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Personal Branding Through Strengths 8:05

1+ y ago8:05

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If you want to register directly, you can find the next CliftonStrengths training at https://leadthroughstrengths.com/events/ To stay up on the latest quarterly training events as they're posted, I recommend joining our email list at https://leadthroughstrengths.com/challenge/ Other resources from the episode: Make your More Of List - https://leadt…

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Free CliftonStrengths Training 4:29

1+ y ago4:29

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To stay up on the latest quarterly training events as they're posted, I recommend joining our email list here: https://leadthroughstrengths.com/challenge/ Or, if you want to register directly, you can find them at https://leadthroughstrengths.com/events/By Lisa Cummings

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3 Ways To Focus on Strengths In A Staff Meeting 12:13

2y ago12:13

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Also, come join our quarterly virtual training at leadthroughstrengths.com/eventsBy Lisa Cummings

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New CliftonStrengths Manager Report 14:52

2y ago14:52

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CliftonStrengths for Managers Report See your Top 10 talents, and how they might help or hinder your personal leadership https://store.gallup.com/p/en-us/14216/cliftonstrengths-for-managers Attend our Open-To-The Public StrengthsFinder Training https://leadthroughstrengths.com/events Book a Private Training Event https://leadthroughstrengths.com/st…

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He Refuses To Participate In StrengthsFinder — Should We Make It Mandatory? 9:32

2+ y ago9:32

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If Someone Refuses To Participate In StrengthsFinder, Invite Them To The Session Anyway Maybe it was a bad experience with another assessment tool, or the thought that another assessment is unnecessary. But if someone in your team refuses to participate in StrengthsFinder, it helps to gather insights behind the “why.” Chances are you can form or of…

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Team Is Under 10% On Influencing Strengths — Is This A Weak CliftonStrengths Lineup? 8:20

2+ y ago8:20

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Influencing Strengths Not Part Of Your Top 5? Chill, You're Not Alone It’s totally normal for you or your team to hope for a balanced distribution of themes across all four domains of strengths: strategic thinking, relationships, executing, and influencing. You may think that you are not as productive and effective if you lack the talent themes fro…

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Strengths Based Conversations – Get ROE (Return on Effort) Today 14:43

2+ y ago14:43

14:43

Team Questions and Active Listening Impact Strengths Based Conversations At Lead Through Strengths, our StrengthsFinder events are designed to help you dial deep into your strengths so you can understand yourself better and strengthen team performance. What better way to launch this goal into action than through meaningful activities and strengths …

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Using Strengths For Sales Teams 13:47

2+ y ago13:47

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Applying Strengths For Sales Teams Can Boost Performance If you look over those moments where you closed a deal or knocked out a killer proposal, you were likely in the zone. That whole idea of "flow" or being in the zone - it's a clue to your greatest strengths. Work feels effortless because either you were at your genuine best or you were dealing…

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First Step: Talking About Strengths To Get In The Zone 15:22

2+ y ago15:22

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What's the first step after the CliftonStrengths assessment? The StrengthsFinder Test, StrengthsFinder training, and the StrengthsFinder 2.0 book are all a wealth of resources for uncovering what your top talent themes are, and how you can apply them. After your team gets their results, the next step by many teams is to focus on learning about each…

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Managing To People's Strengths 12:42

2+ y ago12:42

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Managing To People’s Strengths, A Simple Path To Better Performance This topic opens a series of interviews featuring Lead Through Strengths facilitator Joseph Dworak. Now this particular episode looks at the value of workplace conversations, especially when the team is remote. People have never been more hungry for human connection than today. In …

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Stop The Soul Suck — Get Assigned Work In Your Strengths Zone 20:48

2+ y ago20:48

20:48

Work In Your Strengths Zone To Make Work Enjoyable How often you work in your strengths zone has a lot to do with living your best life. Here at Lead Through Strengths, we believe that choosing easy doesn't equate to choosing lazy. It means choosing efficiency and getting more of what works for you and what you enjoy focusing on. This may sound too…

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Save Time At Work With Your Strengths — It's Easy, Not Lazy 27:36

2+ y ago27:36

27:36

Take The Path of Least Resistance To Save Time At Work One of the best things that happen when you are aligned with your natural talents is that work ceases to feel like "work." This is that sweet spot where you accomplish your tasks feel like you're in a state of flow. This is when things on your to-do list energize you, rather than drain you. Sin…

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Not Feeling Very Worky Today? Get To The Truth About Why 26:10

2+ y ago26:10

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If You're Not Feeling Very Worky Today, Your Feeling Is Valid If you woke up not feeling very worky today, you're not alone. All around the world, this happens for reasons that are either obvious or hard to dig. Being in a funk is a real struggle that can last from days to months and can impact many important decisions that you make. It happens in …

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Self Care Ideas: Simple Ways That Strengths Can Fill Your Empty Tank 27:25

2+ y ago27:25

27:25

Self Care Ideas That Most Corporate Professionals Haven't Considered You can't go very far when you're running on empty, no matter how hard you push. And that's why we've come up with this fun episode for you — consider it a virtual "filling station." All you need to do for now is hit the brake, find clarity, and refill your tank with self care ide…

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My Manager Hates Me: The 'Not Savage' Strengths Approach 23:47

3y ago23:47

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How Can I Turn Conflicts Around When My Manager Hates Me? Certain situations can highlight the stark differences within a team, especially when your strengths seem opposite of others' strengths. For example, you might think “my manager hates me” when they seem to value other team members' ideas and blow off yours. To conform or to stay true to your…

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Using Hobbies To Make Money (AKA Translating Interests To Your Job) 5:23

3y ago5:23

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Using Hobbies To Make Money And To Uncover Strengths Outside Of The Office Your personal hobbies — those things you do outside of work for fun and creative expression — are most likely a mirror of your talent themes. That's why discovering your top strengths through StrengthsFinder often leads to that aha moment where it becomes crystal clear why y…

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What Is StrengthsFinder Training? Can It Kickstart Productivity At Work? 4:12

3y ago4:12

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What Is StrengthsFinder Training Like? Get A Glimpse Of The Lead Through Strengths Style. So, what is StrengthsFinder training really all about? What will we talk about? What makes the training any different from other strengths courses around? Can we do this for a team building event? Is this like DiSC or MBTi? Does it even work in a virtual envir…

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Annoying Coworkers? Send In A Strengths Bomb 10:39

3y ago10:39

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On "Bad" Strengths: The Perception Behind Annoying Coworkers If you just got into StrengthsFinder, chances are you are all fired up knowing about your top strengths and, maybe, how they compare to others'. Many of us scroll through all the 34 talent themes and then mentally assign some of them to people or teams that we know. This tendency is gener…

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The CliftonStrengths Report Says You're Awesome! Now What? 7:06

3y ago7:06

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Once You Get Your CliftonStrengths Report, How Should You Take Action? Your CliftonStrengths report reflects your greatest strengths. As you focus on applying them to work, you might also wonder how to handle situations that call for talent themes way below your top 5 or top 10. If you're like most people, you'll want to dial up your bottom talents…

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Delivering Engaging Presentations When You're An Introvert 5:36

3y ago5:36

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Your Strengths Have Everything To Do With Achieving Engaging Presentations Presenting can be a piece of cake for some, but can be a daunting task for others. But whether you are an introvert or someone who loves to be in front of an audience, how well you can capture your audience really depends on how you use your strengths. Do you focus on “wow”-…

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Is StrengthsFinder Legit And Valid? 8:30

3y ago8:30

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StrengthsFinder Legit? Valid? Accurate? If you're wondering, you're actually just like Sara Regan, the Lead Through Strengths facilitator in this interview. Before being exposed to the tool, she was a bit skeptical about it. Usually, before doing some strengths finding with the team, one or two among us are wondering if psychometric tools are accur…

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Using Your Strengths For A Productivity Gut Check 9:35

3y ago9:35

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Lead Through Strengths Facilitator Strother Gaines Shares How CliftonStrengths Can Help With Productivity. When it comes to work or personal goals, it is one thing to plan out all the things you intended to do and another to carry them out as committed. How we manage time, and how consistently or effectively we accomplish the tasks in our calendars…

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Superpowers At Work – How To Wield Them And Amp Up Your Work Week 15:03

3y ago15:03

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Your Superpowers At Work - New Ideas For Finding Them And Using Them From Lead Through Strengths Facilitator Strother Gaines In this episode, Lisa Cummings and co-host Strother Gaines discuss, through analogies and practical examples, the impact of knowing how to wield your superpowers at work. If our previous episode suggested ways of striking a b…

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How To Start Living Your Best Life By Tapping Into Your Strengths 11:31

3y ago11:31

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To Live Your Best Life, Know Your Intention And Be Clear With What You Want Lisa: What about the conflicts you have in your head as well, so they're not just with others? You know, you fight your own things that you wish you would do, maybe when you're not aligned with the personal leadership you want to demonstrate, or the life you say you want to…

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Ignite Better Team Collaboration Through Strengths 7:00

3y ago7:00

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Conversations About Turning Conflicts Into Strengths Collaboration - With Lead Through Strengths Facilitator Strother Gaines In any work environment, especially widely diverse ones where people with different backgrounds, cultures and management styles work together, conflicts between or among employees can arise. At the same time, every customer s…

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How To Not Sound Arrogant When Building A Career Brand Around Your Strengths 6:28

3y ago6:28

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Lead Through Strengths Facilitator Strother Gaines Shares His Thoughts On How To Not Sound Arrogant When You Offer Out Your Strengths In this episode, Lisa Cummings and co-host Strother Gaines talk about the different ways you can present or offer your strengths at work and how to not sound arrogant in doing so. How you can be received or appreciat…

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What To Do When You Don’t Like Your Strengths 5:37

3y ago5:37

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Lead Through Strengths Facilitator Strother Gaines - Helping You Figure Out What To Do When You Don't Like Your Strengths This episode is all about the situation when you don't like your strengths — or you don't think you like someone else's strengths. It's easy to stereotype one of the CliftonStrengths talent themes, good or bad, when you only tak…

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Core Concept #9: CliftonStrengths Blind Spots – Starved And Fed Talents 11:41

3+ y ago11:41

11:41

We have now reached the ninth and final core concept in our STRENGTHS series, where we’ve been discussing the importance of engaging in strengths-focused conversations with your team over time. If you’ve been following this conversation, congratulations on getting this far! And if you’ve been applying even just some of our tips and taking on our ti…

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Core Concept #8: Honored or Insulted 11:56

3+ y ago11:56

11:56

Finding Energizing Tasks At Work We’re almost at the end of our STRENGTHS series, where we discuss a total of nine concepts that will help you implement strengths with your team at work. In this episode, we'll explore one of the most interesting topics in this series: Honored and Insulted. This topic always generates the liveliest conversations. Wh…

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Core Concept #7: Team Strengths Take Time and Intention 11:37

3+ y ago11:37

11:37

Our seventh core concept in this STRENGTHS series, “Takes Time and Intention,” may sound like a lame title compared with our previous topics (“Troublemaker Talents,” “Easy Buttons,” “Gimme That Escalation,” etc.), but as we go along you’ll find that there’s a lot more nuance to it than that. You’ll get a deeper sense of why strengths take time, and…

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Core Concept #6: Gimme That Escalation 11:05

3+ y ago11:05

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Our sixth core concept is a perfect build-on to the “Plus One, Minus One” activity mentioned in our previous episode, Concept #5: “Not an Excuse.” Plus one, in particular, is about mining your team of the things they want to have more of. Then, as you dig deeper into this challenge, it’s amazing what you’ll discover from each of the team member’s r…

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Core Concept #5: Not An Excuse 15:03

3+ y ago15:03

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If you've been following this series, you'll know we've been spelling the word STRENGTHS with nine core competencies that pop out as the most elusive, interesting, or unconsidered when implementing strengths at work. So far, we've had: 1. S.E.T. (Skills, Experience, and Talents) 2. Troublemaker Talents 3. Regulate by Situation 4. Easy Buttons Now w…

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Core Concept #4: Easy Buttons 10:07

3+ y ago10:07

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We notice it all the time: when we point out to people their natural talents through meaningful conversations, their success comes more easily. In this episode, we refer to this phenomenon as “easy buttons” — our fourth core concept in this series. Here at Lead Through Strengths, we love seeing people’s potentials. It’s always an amazing experience…

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Core Concept #3: Regulate By Situation 9:30

3+ y ago9:30

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If you want others to experience the best of your StrengthsFinder talent themes, you'll love our third core concept -- regulate by situation. A Simple Concept? Imagine you’re in front of a mixing board wherein you’re looking at your Top 5 or Top 10 from your CliftonStrengths reports. Each of your talent themes is assigned a fader so that each of th…

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Core Concept #2: Troublemaker Talents 11:22

3+ y ago11:22

11:22

From the S.E.T and “Aspirational You” concepts in the previous episode, we now move towards a seemingly favorite topic for discussion: troublemaker talents! When talking about strengths, curiosity about the other side -- the so-called “shadow side” or “blind spots” -- tends to surface. And that’s exactly why our next core concept is worth discussin…

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Core Concept #1: Skills, Experiences, And Talents (S.E.T.) For Strong Teams 9:00

3+ y ago9:00

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In this episode, we start joining important puzzle pieces together to make your team a genuinely strengths-powered one. When we zero in on the nuts and bolts that make strengths work, we develop the kind of perspective that can build and rebuild teams as often as necessary -- no matter what changes or challenges arise in your work environment. Once…

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9 Ways To Build Stronger Teams 14:05

3+ y ago14:05

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Core Concepts for Stronger Teams In this series, you’ll explore 9 core concepts that will help you implement strengths with your team at work. The concepts we chose for you came straight from you - both from listeners of this show and from participants in our training classes. These are the concepts that pop out as most important or elusive. If you…

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Career Branding When Achiever Is Your Strength 13:13

4y ago13:13

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I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Achiever to your career. In this series, you get one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you’re exploring this concept as a mana…

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Career Branding When Activator Is Your Strength 11:17

4y ago11:17

11:17

I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Activator to your career. In this series, you get one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you’re exploring this concept as a man…

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Career Branding When Adaptability Is Your Strength 14:09

4y ago14:09

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I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Adaptability to your career. In this series, you get one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you’re exploring this concept as a …

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Career Branding When Analytical Is Your Strength 15:26

4y ago15:26

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I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Analytical to your career. In this series, you get one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you’re exploring this concept as a ma…

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Career Branding When Arranger Is Your Strength 11:59

4y ago11:59

11:59

I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Arranger to your career. In this series, you get one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you’re exploring this concept as a mana…

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Career Branding When Belief Is Your Strength 14:45

4y ago14:45

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I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Belief to your career. In this series, you get one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you’re exploring this concept as a manage…

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Career Branding When Command Is Your Strength 14:14

4y ago14:14

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I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Command to your career. In this series, you get one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you’re exploring this concept as a manag…

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Career Branding When Communication Is Your Strength 10:24

4y ago10:24

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I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Communication to your career. In this series, I break down one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you’re exploring this concept…

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Career Branding When Competition Is Your Strength 9:16

4y ago9:16

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I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Competition to your career. In this series, I break down one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you’re exploring this concept a…

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Career Branding When Connectedness Is Your Strength 11:47

4y ago11:47

11:47

I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Connectedness to your career. In this series, I break down one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you’re exploring this concept…

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Career Branding When Consistency Is Your Strength 11:16

4y ago11:16

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I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Consistency to your career. In this series, I break down one strength per post — so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you’re exploring this concept…

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Career Branding When Context Is Your Strength 12:37

4y ago12:37

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I hear a lot of curiosity about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Context to your career. In this series, I break down one strength per post — so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you’re exploring this concept as a …

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Career Branding When Deliberative Is Your Strength 12:36

4y ago12:36

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I hear a lot of curiosity about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Deliberative to your career. In this series, I break down one strength per post — so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you’re exploring this concept …

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