Strengths: Tools

Select a post from Mike's blog3 tips for getting positive energy3 tips for understanding your boss's business model3 tips for focusing on your desire, discipline and delivery3 tips for being both a sprinter and a marathon runner3 tips for focusing on fun, freedom and fulfilment3 tips for being positive and professional - but not trying to persuade3 tips for clarifying your compass3 tips for hitting the sweet spot3 tips for managing crises successfully3 tips for doing something exceptional3 tips for balancing creativity, customers and cash3 tips for following your life-themes3 tips for following the adage in order to finish first, first you have to finish3 tips for focusing on your team's purpose, principles and practice3 tips for recognising that what you focus on you become3 tips for living an authentic life3 tips for making good decisions3 tips for moving between roles successfully3 tips for living the vital life - rather than the vanilla life3 tips for following the creative art to reach your goals3 tips for buying time during the day3 tips for clarifying your picture of success3 tips for focusing on awareness, action and achievement3 tips for transforming your currency3 tips for focusing on pleasure - rather than pressure - in certain situations3 tips for being at your best at big moments3 tips for following your rhythm - rather than other people's rhythm3 tips for managing sponsors by focusing on the 3 Rs3 tips for focusing on strengths, sponsors and success3 tips for focusing on your purpose, principles and practice3 tips for shaping your future after a setback3 tips for focusing on passion, purpose and peak performance3 tips for developing rituals for re-centering3 tips for recognising fair fighters and dirty fighters3 tips for focusing on drive, detail and delivery3 tips for recognising that everything is food3 tips for balancing your mission and mortgage3 tips for clarifying your perfect customer3 tips for clarifying the actual words you want to hear people saying in the future3 tips for understanding the positive, percentage and paralysis approaches3 tips for understanding the satisfying work curve3 tips for focusing on your physical, psychological and philosophical health3 tips for practicing the art of mental rehearsal3 tips for reaching out to potential sponsors3 tips for following the creative process of opening-up and closing-down3 tips for being real in your role3 tips for seeing the connection between your daily actions and your overall life-compass3 tips for focusing on where you have a sixth sense3 tips for recognising patterns3 tips for focusing on where you are helicoptering and hands-on3 tips for enjoying great days, good days and grunt days3 tips for being able to flow - rather than freeze3 tips for making clear contracts with sponsors3 tips for growing a business3 tips for focusing on where things come easily3 tips for recognising the facts are friendly3 tips for focusing on design, development and delivery3 tips for balancing money, meaning and magic3 tips for working with kindred spirits3 tips for respecting a challenge and achieving success3 tips for becoming a class act3 tips for focusing on what you care about3 tips for putting yourself into positive circles - rather than negative circles3 tips for expressing your professional philosophy in your various professional boxes3 tips for understanding Joseph Campbell's view of the heroic journey3 tips for focusing on relaxation, rehearsal and results3 tips for recognising carers, creators and critics3 tips for creating perfect days3 tips for using the creative approach3 tips for doing work that focuses on enjoyment, encouragement and excellence3 tips for being of high value and hard to replace3 tips for following your creative rhythm3 tips for developing where you have a photographic memory3 tips for continually focusing on the 'what, why, who and when' to achieve the picture of success.3 tips for putting yourself in the right mind and mode for making magic3 tips for producing great design3 tips for the art of imagination, implementation and impact3 tips for making good use of your prime times3 tips for appreciating your assets3 tips for finding, accepting and forgetting yourself3 tips for focusing on where you concentrate on the top, not the drop3 tips for recovering by acting as a professional one day at a time3 tips for balancing great work and grunt work3 tips for spending your days helping people to succeed3 tips for recognising you are always on stage3 tips for developing a memory of the future3 tips for focusing on your own game - rather than that of others3 tips for following your successful style3 tips for building on your strengths3 tips for getting the right balance between consuming and creating3 tips for following your obsession3 tips for understanding your preferred working culture3 tips for focusing on your rest, rhythm and results3 tips for focusing on your desire and discipline to reach a destination3 tips for doing some slow thinking3 tips for being positively engaged3 tips for considering what your customers really buy from you3 tips for making a contract with yourself before making contracts with other people3 tips for dealing with the mourning for a broken dream3 tips for getting a perfect 103 tips for focusing on your beliefs, behaviour and brilliant results3 tips for expanding your comfort zone3 tips for following the peak performer's path3 tips for clarifying your perfect role3 tips for writing your brochure for your perfect customer3 tips for controlling the controllables3 tips for recognising your solid ground and dangerous ground3 tips for improving your chances of success3 tips for managing setbacks successfully3 tips for working with people with whom you have different kinds of clicks3 tips for understanding the self-confidence pot3 tips for beating the double-bind3 tips for surfing the sigmoid curve3 tips for spring-cleaning your life3 tips for focusing on where you make complicated things simple3 tips for living the A life3 tips for clarifying the qualities you want in a manager3 tips for focusing on the results, rather than the 'running commentary'3 tips for doing the thing you love repeating3 tips for behaving ethically at your Tylenol Moments3 tips for recognising where you go a, b _____ z3 tips for using your personal radar3 tips for balancing innovation, implementation and impact3 tips for following your creative compass3 tips for managing potential successes3 tips for understanding the fulfilling and Faustian roads3 tips for following your creative rituals3 tips for building on the basics and then adding brilliance3 tips for developing your disciplines3 tips for getting the right balance between service and self-indulgence3 tips for being fully alive3 tips for being a good service giver3 tips for knowing your reasons for achieving peak performance3 tips for returning to your vocation during difficult times3 tips for pursuing your passion3 tips for focusing on your values, vision and visible results3 tips for following your way of giving to people3 tips for choosing your attitude3 tips for using pressure as a trigger for achieving your picture of success3 tips for re-taking charge of your feelings, finances and future3 tips for focusing on the goal - rather than the goalkeeper3 tips for playing your natural game3 tips for focusing on enlightenment, execution and excellence3 tips for maintaining positive energy as a person, professional and planetarian3 tips for managing potential difficulties3 tips for continuing to define yourself as a person - rather than as a problem3 tips for getting more creative highs3 tips for delivering3 tips for putting yourself in the place where you can use your instinct3 tips for managing your energy to achieve peak performance3 tips for clarifying what you can and can't expect from an organisation3 tips for getting the right infrastructure for doing great work3 tips for getting the right balance between the cave and the campfire3 tips for the art of creative problem solving3 tips for doing what gives you energy to develop a product or profession3 tips for understanding the strengths and shortcomings approaches to growth3 tips for recognising epiphanies3 tips for recognising that vulnerability is a great teacher3 tips for following your vocational themes3 tips for being a deviant who delivers3 tips for reframing tough situations as a positive challenge3 tips for being a pacesetter3 tips for following your vocation3 tips for recognising clear messages, conflicting messages and confusing messages3 tips for recognising there will always be problems3 tips for being a warrior-wizard3 tips for getting in shape to achieve peak performance3 tips for doing stimulating work3 tips for enjoying a sense of play3 tips for being committed to the commitment3 tips for clarifying your decision-making authority3 tips for recognising that results require rest and recovery3 tips for building on your positive addictions3 tips for spending time in your sanctuaries3 tips for clarifying what you can offer to sponsors3 tips for improving your well-being3 tips for focusing on the spirit you want to follow to do satisfying work3 tips for being prepared to do the work to get your perfect work3 tips for enjoying the journey3 tips for communicating your story3 tips for recognising warning signs3 tips for preparing to achieve peak performance3 tips for doing what comes naturally3 tips for going from 7/10 to 10/103 tips for focusing on the situations where you have the strategy and steel for delivering success3 tips for making clear contracts with people3 tips for filling a vacuum with a positive vision3 tips for doing work that involves your heart, head and hands3 tips for harnessing your fighting spirit3 tips for focusing on where you have natural self-discipline3 tips for choosing to dream, do and deliver3 tips for the art of finishing3 tips for using your OCD to achieve success3 tips for spending more time with encouragers3 tips for being in the zone3 tips for balancing your soul work and salary work3 tips for building on where you see patterns quickly3 tips for following your tradition3 tips for focusing on the green, amber and red zones3 tips for expressing your spirit when setting your specific goals3 tips for focusing on concentration3 tips for focusing on excitement3 tips for using pleasure and pain to achieve peak performance3 tips for creating opportunities to use your strengths3 tips for being fully present3 tips for maintaining the magic3 tips for focusing on when you are captivated3 tips for choosing to be great rather than grumpy3 tips for focusing on preparation, professionalism and peak performance3 tips for playing to your strengths, by guest writer Andrea Sigetich3 tips for pursuing your top priorities3 tips for spending more time using your A talents3 tips for taking time-out while the world keeps turning3 tips for following your principles towards the prize3 tips for understanding the sink or swim, sideshow and serious plan approaches to setting-up a business3 tips for balancing round space, for reflecting, and square space, for succeeding, in your life and work3 tips for pursuing your labours of love3 tips for managing transitions between the various boxes in your life3 tips for being good, gracious and generous3 tips for continuing to get stimulation3 tips for focusing on security, stimulation and success3 tips for following your flow3 tips for clarifying your best contribution to the business3 tips for being in your element3 tips for creating the right foundation and continuing to fly3 tips for using your feelings to build a better world

The ‘3 tips …’ series provides many tools for focusing on strengths, super teams and sharing knowledge.This section of the series is devoted to building on strengths.

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[navigation tip 2] For quick access to the very “latest” posts in the Strengths category of Mike’s blog you can choose from the last 20 posts in this category listed below.

The Strengths Pack

This 20 page pack provides exercises for finding your strengths. If you are a manager, you can also use it with your team members. They can use the pack to develop their talents and shape their future careers.

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• 3 tips for getting positive energy
• 3 tips for understanding your boss's business model
• 3 tips for focusing on your desire, discipline and delivery
• 3 tips for being both a sprinter and a marathon runner
• 3 tips for focusing on fun, freedom and fulfilment
• 3 tips for being positive and professional - but not trying to persuade
• 3 tips for clarifying your compass
• 3 tips for hitting the sweet spot
• 3 tips for managing crises successfully
• 3 tips for doing something exceptional
• 3 tips for balancing creativity, customers and cash
• 3 tips for following your life-themes
• 3 tips for following the adage in order to finish first, first you have to finish
• 3 tips for focusing on your team's purpose, principles and practice
• 3 tips for recognising that what you focus on you become
• 3 tips for living an authentic life
• 3 tips for making good decisions
• 3 tips for moving between roles successfully
• 3 tips for living the vital life - rather than the vanilla life
• 3 tips for following the creative art to reach your goals

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