As a leader, are you focusing energies on improving your strengths or your weaknesses?
It's annoying to work on our weaknesses: Who wants to spend energy trying to move from slightly below average to slightly above on a particular skill? Consider focusing on your strengths instead. Make what you're already good at an even greater asset. After all, if you really want to make a difference in your school/organization, it's your strengths that will lead the way. Of course, it's more challenging to move from well above average to even more above average, but you'll enjoy it more since your strengths are things you likely already take pleasure in doing. And don't worry about having too much of a good thing. Have you ever worked with a leader who possessed too much character or was too strategic? Probably not. And when it comes to your areas of weakness. Are you anxious about not having the necessary skill set in the school/organization? If so, look around. There is always someone on staff who has the very skills you lack. Draw on their expertise....and watch them blossom.
Adapted from "Become an Extraordinary Leader" by Scott Edinger.
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