hey everybody this is Martin Solis and welcome to episode two of Career Mode
the straight-talking no-nonsense show that looks to answer all
your career questions today my friends we're going to be talking about
strengths vs. weaknesses don't go away
all right so look today's question strengths versus weaknesses which one
should I focus on more okay so look I'm gonna be honest right I am definitely
more of a strengths guy right don't get me wrong I do think that there is
room and there are certain situations where you do need to focus on
your weaknesses but just in like a general sense the results that I've seen
and I'm not just talking about me personally and and the approach that
I've taken but you know this is a particular focus within the mentoring
it's something that we encourage and you know the mentees that really absorb this
and really go out there and apply their strengths like you know the results are
pretty much irrefutable you know they speak for themselves and I
think you know now I've just seen it far too much I'm kind of too far gone to
really be convinced otherwise okay so look first things first we're going to
talk about weaknesses now I said just a second ago that I do believe
there is room and there are certain situations where you do need to focus on
your weaknesses and so if you have a weakness and it's impacting the team
it's impacting the people around you the organization and it's preventing you
from delivering work on time and to a standard then you need to look at you
you can't ignore it because at some point or another it's
gonna catch up with you so you need to do something about it now and you need
to do whatever it is that you need to do to bring that to a level where it's no
longer an issue and to be honest with you that's really all I have to say on this
point you know if it's causing you a problem then you need to do something about it
END OF! very quickly though before we move
on to the next point if you do have a weakness and you know that it's
causing you a problem and you're not quite sure what you can do about it or
you know how you can begin to improve it then look just hit me up in the comments
right and I will do my absolute very best to try and help you out obviously
you know I can't make any guarantees right but yeah hit me
up and I'll see what I can do okay so look second point on this we're gonna
look at strengths now and just delve a little bit deeper into these and so I
said in the beginning of the video that this is a particular focus within the
mentoring and is something that we encourage mentees to do now just as a
side note to this when I say we I say it because it's not something that I do on
my own I actually do it with a very good friend and colleague of mine and who
just so happens to also be an ex mentee of mine and so yeah look there's a bit
of a weird situation but you know it works so I'm not going to question it
but yeah so this is a particular focus and normally what we will do ahead of
the session is we'll say to the mentees right... jot down a list of strengths
and a list of weaknesses and I guarantee you right every single time mentees will
come in and they'll be like this is a weakness of mine or my boss says that
this is a weakness of mine and I need to work on it now providing that the
weakness isn't glaringly obvious the first question I'm asking is why you
know explain it to me when you begin to delve deeper into these you begin to
realize that so many of these weaknesses right are so small in comparison to like
the big picture the grand scheme of things that they really don't matter and
so it's usually at this point that I'm like you know what don't bother
focus on your strengths focus on the things that you're good at and if you're
running a team make sure that they're focusing on their strengths and they're
focusing on the things that they're good at don't have people putting in valuable time
and effort trying to improve on weaknesses that have no impact on the
organization or their ability to perform their role and just as another side note
here when I say ability to perform I'm talking about across the board right
from the work that they deliver to the relationships that they
have with other teens and other people when what you could be doing is
encouraging them to draw on their strengths and double your results don't
make the mistake of thinking that just because it's a weakness that it's gonna
cause a problem and then it needs fixing because I can tell you right just from
experience alone it's just not true okay so look final point on this one
strengths are transferable and you know what's so fuckin awesome about this is
that if you understand the true value of your strengths and how they can be
applied and adapted to different organizations and roles then not only
does this give you an edge but it also broadens your scope of opportunity and
I'm gonna give you an example here so I took on a business role right now
bearing in mind that prior to that my entire background was just purely
service driven I knew nothing about business
right budgets profit and loss revenues generating new business and onboarding
new clients like like nothing but the one thing I did know at the time of
being offered that role is that if I applied my strengths right if I aligned
them to the requirements of that role then not only would I meet the
expectation but I would exceed them and you know what it's exactly what I done
but here's the thing about this right if I didn't look at it in that way if I
didn't understand this there is no way on this earth that I would have ever
made the most of that opportunity or achieved
what I did and this my friends is a prime example of just what can be achieved
when you understand the true value of your strengths and you understand how
they can be applied both in and outside of what you currently do all right guys
so listen that is it for today's show hope you enjoyed it hope I managed to
answer the question if you do have any further questions
right or any points that have come up as a result of what's been discussed today
then put it in the comments and I'll get back to you if you have a question that
you want to bring on to this show again my friends put it in the comments we'll
get it on other than that though listen thank you for watching and I see you
again next time
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