From the course: Leveraging Your Transferable Skills to Drive Your Career
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What are your strengths?
From the course: Leveraging Your Transferable Skills to Drive Your Career
What are your strengths?
- The two biggest challenges with identifying and leveraging our strengths are A, we tend to devalue what we're good at, what comes naturally to us, we assume everyone is good at writing if we are, and B, maybe we don't actually know what our own strengths are. So here's the thing. I started great on the job, a leadership development and communication training firm, because my husband told me that I was an amazing communicator. He listened to me work 24/7 on Wall Street and said you need to teach this. And I looked at him and I remember saying, you don't know how to do this? I think everyone talks the way I talk. I assumed that because communication came easily to me, it came easy to others and we often make that mistake. Don't devalue what you're good at. It doesn't translate to everyone else in the world. If you don't know what your area of strengths are, then there are resources out there for you. Marcus…
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