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Identifying Your Natural Strengths, Hidden Strengths, and Weaknesses

The most valuable information you can have is an understanding of your current abilities. With a clear view of your Natural Strengths, Weaknesses, and, especially, Hidden Strengths, you can identify where to focus your attention to help you move to the next level of your profession.

As we discussed in Chapters 1 and 2, pushing your growth and moving outside of your comfort zone are the keys to your personal and professional evolution. More often than not, it takes an event—in this case, getting critical data about where you stand—to jump-start the growth process. Gathering this information is easy to do and should be done annually to keep you on top of your game.

Several methods ...

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