Comments on: Can We Really Change?

By: by Tim

by Tim — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:01:45 +0000

Back now Thanks, Charles, for the front row peek into Buckingham’s exercise. You’re fortunate to have an employer enthusiastic about this kind of personal work.

As per my post, I did a “strengths feedback” session with a colleague last week and found it extremely helpful. Looking forward to another one next week with a coworker who has a different take on my skills.

By: by Tim

by Tim — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:47:34 +0000

I'm taking my own advice and vacationing from computing until March 28. Cheers! ~Tim

By: CharlesP

CharlesP — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:40:21 +0000

We had to do the Now Discover Your Strengths book and test at my job and it was pretty interesting. Admittedly unless you’re an unusually cryptic (or self ignoring) person you can figure a lot of the concepts out without the test. The test told me that I should do something where I sit in a dark room and think a lot about problems, which works out well as my job is a programmer doing support and development of applications.

I think part of the take away needs to be A) enhance the strengths, but B) don’t ignore the weaknesses, just don’t try and make them strengths for the sake of trying.