“Triple down on you strengths”
– Gary Vee
When I understand what my superpower is, I can concentrate and exploit these strengths. I realize today that I shine when in front of clients. I light up. I feel that my character strength of being an empath allows me to connect and understand others’ feelings and emotions. Others have said that my energy and enthusiasm are strengths of mine.
A person’s super power is their particular genius: the specific, unique and specialized skill that they bring to the workplace. It is their secret sauce.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dedehenley/2018/10/08/what-is-your-super-power-at-work/#451698dd78fd
As a leader, your job is to figure out the natural gifts and abilities of each member of your team and draw them out.
It’s unique, like a thumbprint, part of your brand. It is that quality that causes others to say, “You know who would be great for this…?” or “We should go to so and so. They would know exactly what to do here.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dedehenley/2018/10/08/what-is-your-super-power-at-work/#451698dd78fd
Here are three questions you can use to help identify your team members’ super powers:
- What unique contribution does this person bring to the projects, conversations and meetings they attend?
- What do people come to this person for?
- What would be missing if this person were to leave?
“Sometimes, in our society, we try and do what everyone else is doing to be successful when, in actuality, what we should be doing is using what’s successful to us,” he says.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40578240/how-to-find-your-superpower
Look for the areas in which you excel without much effort—those are likely indicators of your strongest abilities, says career coach Val Nelson.
Another superpower of mine is calling customers or prospects. I am in my zone when I get to research a prospect, learn all that I can about someone before I call them, then framing the conversation in a way that makes them feel important and that I am their friend. Networking is also my superpower. I am at the top of my game in a social situation where I need to ‘work a room.” Where others shutdown, I open up.
It’s that thing you provide that’s so great. Maybe you’re the one who listens and listens and then neatly summarizes the big idea of the conversation. Or perhaps you’re the one who picks up on what no one is saying but everyone is thinking and feeling. Or maybe you take really complex information and make it digestible for people. Maybe you haven’t ever really noticed your own super power, likely because it’s what you do every day without even thinking about it. You just didn’t know what to call it. But it’s there, and people count on you to engage your super power when it’s needed to save the situation.
I need to know when I am in my superpower arena and go all in on these. If I can delegate what is outside of my superpower and stay in the zone, I believe I can move mountains. This is not saying that I should not do those other things that are outside of my superpower, it it mainly knowing that my intent is to do what I do best. Stay focused on where I shine and outshine others and that is where I provide the most value.
“Levasseur says that getting clarity about your strengths can make all the difference in your career and life. “The No. 1 thing you can do is determine your strengths, determine your superpowers. Because we’re all individuals, and although we’re all capable of accomplishing our goals, there’s no predetermined way to do that,” he says. “Before we can even tackle our mission, before we can even tackle our objectives, self-awareness and understanding who you are and what you excel at is the No. 1 step in anything you do.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/40578240/how-to-find-your-superpower
To try and attempt to list a few of my superpowers so that I can at minimum acknowledge them to myself….here we go:
- Calling, emailing and communicating with clients
- Writing handwritten notes to clients
- Prospecting and researching how to best contact them
- Engaging clients and others in a way that not intrusive
- Having high, positive energy levels
- Leadership and persuasiveness
- Empathy and the ability to relate to other’s feelings
- Entrepreneur mindset, I have failed before but am stronger for it
- Creative and willingness to try new things
- Positioning products and services- the craft of figuring out how sell a product or service; not being afraid to try something and if it fails, just adjust the strategy, learn from mistake and keep going
- Sales and marketing- mom used to say I could sell ice to Eskimos
- The ability to talk comfortably to older people.
From an early age, I have been comfortable with persuading people older than me. Often times my friends were older. Today, my accountability partner is 51 and I’m 36. At 16, I was selling my lawn services to 45-60 year olds. I’m just not intimidated when it comes to talking to people. My dad used to say, “They put their pants on in the morning the say way that I do,…One leg at a time!” That means, their wallets might be heavier because they are wealthier, they may have a fancy title of a fortune 500 company or be someone super famous or of high importance, but to him, he was saying, they are human and get dressed the same way I do each morning. That humanizes them and helps make them easier to talk too.
So….What is your Super Power?
