Finding Your Strengths

Knowing yourself is important. It gives you the ability to double down on your strengths and talents while improving or delegating your tasks related to your areas for growth.

If you are looking for your next job or promotion, you are going to want to know the specific value you bring to that role.

How do you do that?

Working with a coach is an excellent way to get personalized advice on how to best position yourself for these roles.

However, for personalized assessments of your personality type and unique strengths, you want to turn to trusted assessments such as Clifton Strength Finders, the Drake Assessment, and the Enneagram.

Each one of these assessments will give you clear information on your strengths, challenges, and personality type, which will better inform how you can best impact your future teams and business success.

Additional benefits from taking these tests include being "in the club." As many of your peers will have taken them or heard about them, you will show a level of competency in this part of your career development that adds to your gravitas and vocabulary.

When it comes to navigating the politics at senior leadership levels and board roles, you need to know yourself extremely well. However, the reality is that most people can only consciously see about 40% of their own personality traits and the impact they have on others.

This may shock some of you, as you have the belief that you are in full control and know exactly who you are and how you’re impacting others.

However, the truth is that your subconscious mind likely controls 60% of what motivates you in life, as well as your flaws and how others perceive and react to you.

This means you have huge "blindspots" like everyone else.

Without the knowledge of what’s in your blind spots, you may be underdeveloped in your communications, career strategy, ability to lead others, ability to interview well, or ability to move from a role with a lesser impact.

This is called the subconscious or unconscious mind. These are aspects of your life that you cannot see and are not aware of, even though they highly impact it.

The good news is that through these tests, along with working with a Black Executive Men coach, you can identify your unique strengths and growth opportunities and move forward with confidence on how to achieve your goals.

Jewel Edward Love, Jr. is a world-class executive coach for Black men in senior leadership who are ready to step into greatness. The investment starts at only $10,000.

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