Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance

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	Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance Marcus Buckingham Free Press, 2007 - 270 pages average customer review:based on 53 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Practical applications for coaches

While there are many reviews of this latest book from Marcus Cunningham, I am contributing my perspective as a Psychologist and Business Coach.

I have found this book to be the most practical and functional of the set of books that Marcus Cunningham has written. His other book in this series on strengths, "Now, Discover Your Strengths", serves as the theoretical foundation of the understanding of personal strenths.

The focus of this book is on putting those strengths to work. The framework Buckingham uses is a 6 step program.
This program includes:
1) Believing in the importance of developing your strengths
2) Clarifying and identifying your strengths
3) Finding the right settings to develop and apply your strengths
4) Identifying and limiting your weaknesses
5) Learning how to promote your strenths within a business team setting
6) Buidling strong habits to overcome challenges to focusing on your strengths

I read this book with the intention of finding the functional application of strength buiding. I found his chapters on Clarifying your strengths and Finding the right settings to implement them, very helpful in that regard. He uses personal examples, as well as case studies.

He suggested exercises to follow in order to clarify and then implement your strengths. I made successful use of those with a number of my clients who were very motivated by the results.

Buckingham makes a clear effort to give practical applications and tools to use in every chapter. He references his website www.simplystrenths.com for the available tools as well as offering the colorful resource guide at the end of the book.

If you are a business or life coach and looking for exercises and applications of strengths with your clients, this Buckingham book with be a big help.

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Steps to Understanding Your Master plan

This third in Buckingham's series of books amplifies his previous writing by forcing the reader through practical steps that take the basic premise of "follow your strengths, ignore your weaknesses" to another level. The focus of this book is on applying your strengths for maximum effectiveness. None of us are using anywhere close to our full potential. And so the author takes us through a six-week experience that helps to reveal previously undiscovered aspects of your unique strengths. The book includes exercises and examples of people who have put their strengths into play and refined them. In addition, the book ties to a website that displays a film series illustrating the principles described. By reading and applying this volume, the reader can be on the forefront of the "strengths" revolution.

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Excellent thoughts to start everyday

First, let me say that I love Buckingham's work and believe in his Strength Movement wholeheartedly. As a former school teacher, his initiative with public schools is phenomenal.
For me, the most useful inference in "Go put your..." is that everyday one should make sure that they are moving in the direction of their strengths (even if it is just one small step) and away from their weaknesses. There is a quote that I like- I believe it relates to playing towards your strengths...
"If you will spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field, you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less." Earl Nightingale, 212 the extra degree

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Thought Provoking

Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding PerformanceThis is a very thought provoking book. It is a very different way of looking at identifying job satisfaction. I can see where if the whole organization were to buy in it would be very beneficial to the organization. It points out that just because you are good at doing something it does not mean that you like doing it. My boss is trying to put this in place in our organization and I am excited about seeing it work.

6 Steps

I'm not a business person per-se. But I do read a lot of fiction and non-fiction books. Recently I've been toying with the idea of starting my own company, and a friend recommended to me this book and I'm glad they did, if I end up starting my business I will definitely use the steps from this book

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