Tag: Functional is Fabulous
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How To Get The Most Out Of Your Strengths Assessment: Read It And Rip It Up
I did my first strengths assessment 20 years ago and totally rejected the whole idea. Now, I love it. I think that strengths assessments and inventories can be pretty useful, when used in a certain kind of way. My recommendation is: Do a strengths assessment, Read it, Take it all in, and Rip it up. Here’s…
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Procedures -VS- Habits: Whatever Works
Why do I talk about procedures? Why not habits? Here’s why: There’s what it takes to do the thing. There’s what it takes to form the habit around doing the thing. These are entirely different kinds of work. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, this checks out. Maybe habit language is not the thing that you need.
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Nine Flavours of Solutions-Focused Mindset + One Problem-Focused Gem
People ask me what solutions-focus *is* exactly. “What’s that about? What do you really do? Isn’t this just another flavour of coaching?” In order to respond to this line of questioning, I had to think back over my learning and career. I can see that solutions-focus is an outlier theme that I was drawn to…