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The advice to "build on your strengths" has become very popular, and is very good advice, but it doesn't eliminate the fact that we have weaknesses, and that sometimes those weaknesses affect our productivity and the change we want to make in the world. This five-minute talk delivered at a networking event of the Twin Cities Young Nonprofit Profession Network gives both strength-based skeptics and adherents practical strategies for dealing with weaknesses.
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KUO Hsing-Chun of Chinese Taipei
Credit: Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games
Credit: Jo Christ ian Oterhals
OUR APPROACHES TO WEAKNESSES
SUCK
Try harder“If I beat my head against the wall long enough, the
wall will surrender”
APPROACH #1
Carrots and sticks
“Maybe I can trick myself into doing it”
APPROACH #2
Willpower is finite
THE PROBLEM IS
Returns are limited
AND
We can do better
Richard Matson-Daley
A STRENGTHS-BASED APPROACH TO
WEAKNESS
REDEFINE WEAKNESS
Anything that makes you less
than perfect
Credit: Charles (dol lstuff .net)
Does it stand in the way of what you are trying to
accomplish?
A STRENGTH THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE
Alter your context
What looks like a character problem might be an environmental problem
Partner with others
Two strengths are better than one.
A STRENGTH MISHANDLED
Identify the strength
Learn more about the strength
Learn about other people
Richard Matson-Daley
Twitter: @RichieDaley
