How to Play to Your Strengths
It’s only natural to struggle with receiving negative feedback.
In this article, the authors present a tool to help you understand and leverage your strengths, offering a unique feedback experience that counterbalances negative input. This exercise, dubbed the Reflected Best Self (RBS), allows you to tap into talents you may not have been aware of and increase your career potential. To begin, start gathering input from family, friends, colleagues, and teachers around what they see as your key strengths. Next, search for common themes in the feedback to develop a clearer picture of these strengths. Next, write a description of yourself that summarizes and distills the accumulated information. Finally, redesign your understanding of your ideal job description to build on what you’ve discovered you’re best at. Once you’re more aware of your best self, you can shape the roles you choose to take on — both today and in the next phases of your career.
