As someone who is definitely challenged each week to be able to sit still and stay focused for the entire two hours and forty-five minutes of this night class, Marcus Buckingham definitely won my challenge! I was glued to this man's every intriguing word. I was ready and eager to continue in my seat, to listen to this intelligent man speak. Not only does Mr. Buckingham have a gift at speaking but the subject he spoke on was new and made especially interesting in all the ways he spent explaining it. Mr. Buckingham spoke about our strengths. You might be saying to yourself, “strengths is a new topic?” Yes, it is!
Marcus Buckingham is a business expert and best-selling author. He has helped millions of people reach new levels of success and happiness at work with his radical "strengths training" approach. He encourages people to continue growing where they are already strong. His key to success is actually quite simple: Stop spending so much time trying to fix your weaknesses. Instead, focus on what makes you special and unique. A strength is an activity that makes you feel strong. If you want to know what your strength is, you've got to pay attention to how you feel. It feels like focus. It feels like concentration. You feel invigorated. Energized. He said 84 percent of the nation's workforce is unhappy at work—sheesh!
Another important way to think of strengths Mr. Buckingham said, was to think of strengths training is to look at it as a report card. When a child comes home with a report card, Marcus says most parents would focus more on an F than an A. Really, they should give more attention to the A. You grow the most in the area where you already show some natural advantage, some natural area of talent or strength or passion. That's where you start! Mr. Buckingham also said being dissatisfied with work can filter into other areas of your life. Your family and people that are the most important to you in your life are the ones that hurt. He says, if you're going to win at life—if any of you or any of us are going to win at life—we've got to flip that switch.
Marcus Buckingham is the author of the book,
Now Discover Your Strengths. (pictured left)
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