Strengths-Based Approach Quotes

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.

Over the years, I've learned that a confident person doesn't concentrate or focus on their weaknesses - they maximize their strengths.

I'll work on my weaknesses and build on my strengths.

Do less of what you're terrible at and more of what you're good at. I don't know if that sounds too simple, but it's been working for me.

People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

Work on your strong points because they are what made you.

A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

'StrengthsFinder 2.0' is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea how well received the first strengths book would be by general readers - it was oriented more toward managers - or that the energy and excitement would continue to grow.

The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.

Trying to fit my strengths with my teammates' strengths, utilizing everyone to the max, is really fun to watch and really a fun way to play.

Focus on your strengths.

I think people get caught up a little bit in the fact of finding things that people can't do instead of looking at the things that the player can do.

I do not talk about my weaknesses, I work on them.

Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

You have to play to your strengths, and my strength is the amount of content I create.

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.

You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

When we know our strengths, we're more likely to use them.

Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.