Are You Working Your Strengths Muscles? with Alissa Daire Nelson

Oct 10, 2019

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Alissa Daire Nelson is a certified strength strategy coach who gives people the tools and guidance to put their strengths to work. She's the host of the Maximize Your Strengths podcast, and author of From Frustrated To Frickin' Awesome: 4 Steps to Achieve the Success You're Wired For. Alissa's work has been featured in media outlets all over the world.

In this week’s episode, we explore the practical steps we can take to spot and develop people’s strengths – the things we’re good at and enjoy doing – using tools like Clifton Strengths in workplaces.

Connect with Alissa Nelson:

https://www.daire2succeed.com/

You’ll Learn:

[02:13] - Alissa explains why people’s strengths can help us quickly strengthen our relationship at work.
[04:49] - Alissa explains how tools like Clifton Strengths can give us a language to spot and understand the strengths in each other.
[08:04] - Alissa explains how we can use the talents that tools like Clifton Strengths surface for us as we go about our jobs to improve our performance and wellbeing at work.
[11:06] - Alissa explains why it's helpful to understand the contributions our strengths can make and the needs we each have to support our strengths at work.
[14:11] - Alissa explains how we can become aware and manage the triggers that occur when our strengths are overlooked or undervalued by others we work with.
[19:37] - Alissa offers some tips to help us get better at noticing how we can develop our strengths more effectively at work.
[22:36] - Alissa offers tips for leaders to help develop their people’s strengths more at work.
[26:37] - Alissa completes the Lightning Round.

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