{"id":12005,"date":"2024-05-10T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealdaily.com\/?p=12005"},"modified":"2024-05-10T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:49:36","slug":"leader-strengths-weaknesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-brokers\/leader-strengths-weaknesses\/","title":{"rendered":"How to approach strengths and weaknesses as a leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of leadership literature has become \u201cstrength\u2019s focused\u201d \u2013 using inventories like StrengthsFinder<\/a>. The logic in many ways is sound. Capitalizing on your strengths as a leader and those of your team is significantly more effective than attempts to cover perceived flaws or weaknesses.<\/p>\n

The business world has been cited for being too focused on weaknesses. This is a natural inclination for people. For leaders, however, we should be bringing our strengths, and the strengths of our teams, to work and making \u201cit\u201d happen.<\/p>\n

However, an over-focus on strengths isn\u2019t without its own challenges. As we seek to leverage our \u201cstrengths,\u201d let us not forget the complexity of our skillset and how those negatives we see about ourselves can become assets \u2013 resources \u2013 that we use to manage ourselves and our teams.<\/p>\n

Metaphors are common in leadership articles, so I won\u2019t break tradition.<\/em><\/p>\n

Much like in physical exercise, poor form often causes the overuse of a muscle versus a group of muscles. Poor leadership form, while doing the lifting, leads to overuse or over-reliance on what is good and comfortable for us.<\/p>\n

A pragmatic leader may find themselves unable to make dynamic changes moving forward. Today\u2019s leaders have to deal with a more complex environment in terms of technology, skills, and demographics. One style of leading will simply not be enough.<\/p>\n

The big lesson here is to work out things you don\u2019t think are your best strengths. What are ways you can take those weaknesses and utilize them? How do your rebranded weaknesses make you a good leader for a project or a team? Create opportunities to use your \u201cpositive opposites\u201d \u2013 those weaknesses that you have rebranded.<\/p>\n

You may never be able to develop those skills as strong as your primary, but you will have more leadership muscle to work with. You\u2019ll be delivering a better leader to serve, build, and develop yourself or the organization.<\/p>\n

Schwartz discusses the role of choices. We make a lot of choices as leaders \u2013 resources, people, what risks, what resources, what costs. When we make those choices working with clients or employees we are always using our mental toolkits.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t hurt us to have more tools, most of the time, to allow us to handle situations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is important to recognize that we only have a limited amount of time. You\u2019re still going to benefit more from developing your strengths \u2013 but don\u2019t forget to work out those rebranded weaknesses (the triceps of leadership!). I love an 80\/20 perspective \u2013 spend 80% of your learning time focused on building up those strengths, and spend the other 20% on flexing those rebranded weaknesses.<\/p>\n

A well-balanced leader is not a one-trick pony \u2013 they are leaders who can take an organization through many life cycles. If you seek to be some kind of leader, take some time to appreciate your own mix of strengths and weaknesses and the unique qualities that you bring to a complex world of complex organizations.<\/p>\n

Leadership is a whole-person endeavor, and don\u2019t skip those weaknesses (just like leg day!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There tends to be two camps of leaders, those who lead from strength and those from weakness. But who says you can’t do both?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337697,"featured_media":19502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[1635,516,1234],"class_list":["post-12005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate-brokers","tag-lead","tag-leadership","tag-real-estate-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Man-in-suit-fixing-tie-representing-business.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12005"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20024,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12005\/revisions\/20024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}