Posts filed under: Playing to Your Strengths

Playing to Your Strengths

This category features our blog posts focusing on personal development and playing to your Strengths.

Humans Wanted: Foundational Skills Needed

Our year started on a high note with our “Chart Your Future” workshop for a group of bright and talented young adults. The workshop focused on them understanding their strengths and talents, and looking at how that mapped to future... Read More

PeerSpectives Celebrates!

We at PeerSpectives are over-the-moon grateful for the opportunities to serve the many fabulous people and organizations that share our vision of connecting people to the value they bring. This has been our first year of business, and we are... Read More

Talented People Who Dismiss Their Strengths

We found this fabulous Harvard Business Review article showing how Michelle McKenna-Doyle, CIO of the NFL, uses Strengths to unleash the power of her employees. Effective leaders recognize talent, and occasionally have to convince their team members that their Strengths... Read More

Affirmations to Develop Your Career

We at PeerSpectives Consulting enjoy looking at different perspectives. Here is an article on how African-American leaders prosper and achieve incredible success in situations where they feel underestimated, under-appreciated and under-resourced. Laura Roberts from University of Virginia, and Thomas Murphy... Read More

Self-Awareness is Key !

What does it take to create a culture of cooperation and productivity? We found a brilliant article that references Gillian Davis’ consulting work with tech companies such as Pinterest and Spotify. Here are the 5 Tips – Note the first... Read More

Why People Really Quit Their Jobs

There is a lot on the shoulders for a manager, even a good manager. Facebook’s People Analytics group looked at the differences between those who stayed and left the company, even though all had good managers. Facebook found that those... Read More

5 Q’s to Find Your Purpose

People tend to feel loyal to managers and companies who support them in their career and life ambitions.   They feel seen, appreciated, and on purpose. Our featured article, by Harvard Business Review author Kristi Hedges, outlines 5 areas of questioning to... Read More

Stop Complaining about your Colleagues

We found an inspiring article, Leading Change from the Middle, in which Dr. Grant writes about the tug of war between those who want change and those who don’t. When change meets conflict, there is temptation to force the change... Read More

Leading Change from the Middle of the Organization

We found an inspiring article, Leading Change from the Middle, in which Dr. Grant writes about the tug of war between those who want change and those who don’t. When change meets conflict, there is temptation to force the change... Read More

Superstar Middle Managers

Ever worked with a great manager? The latest research from Gallup show that the quality of managers is the single biggest factor in an organization’s long-term success. Companies with great managers have higher employee engagement, make more money, retain valuable... Read More