strengths

Welcome to the Forum

Is your business working to your strengths?

Build a business that is in balance

Goal of Session

To develop an understanding of your strengths to be able to navigate around your weaknesses

and grow a business that represents you.

You have a greater chance of success if you stick to your core talents

What it takes to be an entrepreneur

The path to discovery starts with awareness of your

Soft skills

Emotional Intelligence


Soft skills

Wins

Going beyond the comfort zone

Soft skills

Wins

NaturalTalents


What do you think comes most naturally to you?

Soft skills

Wins

NaturalTalents

Hard skills


What does your business need?

Soft skills

Wins

NaturalTalents

Hard skills

Vision


What gets you

through the dip is the vision of life after the dip

STRENGTHS / WEAKNESSESBY

MARCUS BUCKINGHAMhttp://leanin.org

What is a weakness?

STRENGTHS / WEAKNESSESBY

MARCUS BUCKINGHAMhttp://leanin.org

What is a strength?

What to look for as a strengthSIGN

Letter Word Meaning

S Success Purposeful actions you control

I Instinctive Anticipatory, feels right – eager to act

G Growth Absorbing and focused, open mindset to learn

N Needed Can’t get by without it – part of your rituals

Weaknesses

Golden Rule• Stop - cease and

desist • Teams – share

and counter• Opportunity – a

chance to get better

• Predict – what if scenarios

Strengths What do you excel at? What activities give you and your business energy? What are your proud of? What do you do better than anyone else? What positive things can you say about the way you approach change? What resources can you call upon? Who benefits because you are here? How do your services / products meet customer demand? What goals have you achieved on time or ahead of time?

SWOT for your Business

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Weaknesses What drains you and your business? Where are you lacking resources? What shames you about your business? What data should you collect that you currently don’t? Why does change never stick? Who suffers because you are here? What goals did you not achieve? What weaknesses can I reframe as strength?


Opportunities What areas in your business offer the greatest areas of growth? What are your competitors focused on? What strength can you do more of? How can you bolster resources? How can you overcome the hurdles you face? How can you improve stakeholder engagement? How can you augment your services to increase value? What is happening in technology that could help improve the business? How could you better achieve the goals you set?


Threats What is happening in the real world that could harm you? Where are you competitors doing better than you? How many clients are leaving the business? Are your stakeholders happy? What obstacles do you needs to address? What stakeholders are on the verge of leaving? How can I counter a drop in motivation?

SWOT – When should you do it?

When your business faces a challenge

Quarterly – because every business is seasonal

Feedback

Any Questions?

Back on the 13th of December“is your business working to

your strengths?”

strengths

Leadership & Management