This old adage is so true whether applied to recruitment methods, meetings or retaining talent to name but a few areas.
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Shine Bright like a Diamond
In my previous article “If Cinderella had gone back for her shoe, she’d never have become a Princess!” I talk about the Odin Development Compass (ODC), and your “fragile strengths” as well as your “resistant limitations”. We also have “natural strengths” - those things which are aligned to our natural drivers, and what we love to do. When you do something you love, you're far more likely to enjoy it, find it easy, be good at it, and be energised by doing it. It can make everything seem right in the world, and won't feel like hard work. As Sir JM Barrie once said “Nothing is really work, unless you’d rather be doing something else”.
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to do more of the things that play to your natural strengths at work? We’d all certainly get more done, and it would be infinitely more satisfying! Identifying, recognising and understanding what you love doing and what you find easy to do can help guide your future career choices and decisions. Use this information to help you decide what you do next. If you reflect, look at your career to date, and consider when you were at your best, what were you doing? What was it about a particular role that allowed you to be your best? Was it the role itself? The particular skills you had to use? The fact that you were able to do what you loved doing? That you were part of a team? The culture of the organisation? Looking back and identifying these specific themes can help greatly in guiding your future decisions, and ultimately ensure you do do more of what you love.
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to do more of the things that play to your natural strengths at work? We’d all certainly get more done, and it would be infinitely more satisfying! Identifying, recognising and understanding what you love doing and what you find easy to do can help guide your future career choices and decisions. Use this information to help you decide what you do next. If you reflect, look at your career to date, and consider when you were at your best, what were you doing? What was it about a particular role that allowed you to be your best? Was it the role itself? The particular skills you had to use? The fact that you were able to do what you loved doing? That you were part of a team? The culture of the organisation? Looking back and identifying these specific themes can help greatly in guiding your future decisions, and ultimately ensure you do do more of what you love.
Similarly, there are things that are our natural drivers but, for whatever reason, we don’t get the opportunity to use or demonstrate those competencies at work. Being able to reveal your natural potential is vital to being able to use and hone the skills you could quickly develop so they come easily, and over time become things you're good at and do with your eyes closed. The ODC helps you to focus your efforts on those things that come more naturally - whether you're currently aware of them or not! Therefore to shine bright like a diamond;
Realise what you love doing;
Aspire to develop other things that come easily to you - your natural potential; and
Do realise your full potential and reveal your true self!
Blog Posts
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“If you do what you’ve always done; you’ll get what you’ve always got”Posted by Jacqueline Jardine - Tuesday, 22nd February 2022 at 11:30am
This old adage is so true whether applied to recruitment methods, meetings or retaining talent to name but a few areas.
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One of the positives of the pandemic is that there is no longer the monopoly on leadership due to position.Posted by Jacqueline Jardine - Friday, 17th December 2021 at 9:30am
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I have previously written about "Belonging - what does this mean to you?" (http://j-w-c.co.uk/blog-display/293). I want to now build on this and consider it from a team's perspective and what it means if you are a manager leading a team currently.Posted by Jacqueline Jardine - Wednesday, 8th December 2021 at 8:15am
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Earlier this year, I completed my Mental Health First Aider Training (MHFA) England, something I had wanted to do for a little while.Posted by Jacqueline Jardine - Friday, 19th November 2021 at 8:15am
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Recently, I was delivering the "First 90 Days in your New Role" for LHH. This is a workshop which generates great discussion around helping people who are still interviewing to find their next appropriate opportunity and to think about how they would answer this question at interview.Posted by Jacqueline Jardine - Tuesday, 21st September 2021 at 3:15pm
