Leading with the Belief StrengthsFinder Talent

Belief StrengthsFinder TL;DR

The belief StrengthsFinder talent means you have consistent core values. These values and principles orbit around your purpose and drive your behavior and interactions with others.

You don’t want to merely do work. You want to make a difference. As a leader, you need to know there is a purpose in the work you do. 

If you’re already familiar with StrengthsFinder, you can skip over the next section.

How do you lead well with belief in your StrengthsFinder top 5?

So you’ve taken the StrengthsFinder assessment, received your results and found belief in the list. Now you’re wondering how to grow or leverage this strength in your leadership. 

I know what it's like to have an un-betrayable commitment to your values. I want to help you as a leader live and lead consistently with your values.

These are three strategies I’ve seen leaders with the belief strengthsfinder talent use to live from their values.

1. Wholistic purpose.
2. Highlight values.
3. Look for alignment.

Holistic purpose.

It’s common today to try and compartmentalize our lives into work, family, friends, faith, interests, etc. But you and I are each whole people. Whether at work, home or out on the town, what we do both reflects and shapes who we are.

You are one person, living one life. What will matter at the end of it?

When someone has compartmentalized their life, and the different compartments hold competing values, they will carry that friction inside them. Their life will feel out of alignment. 

You will feel this even more acutely if you have the belief Strengthsfinder talent.

The solution is to identify a holistic purpose and set of values. You are one person, living one life. What will matter at the end of it? It will most likely be your relationships and whether you lived according to your values.

It can be hard to step back enough to have perspective on the whole of your life. That’s why I created a 5-day journey to living from your priorities. It will help you begin at the end and work back to what values and principles guide how you live today. 

Highlight values.

Not only do people hold individual sets of values, but teams and organizations hold shared value sets. Sometimes they are well articulated and directly influence the group's behavior; other times, they are unspoken but still drive how the community operates. 

You don’t have to compromise but instead can get to the end, knowing you did it right.

Most commonly, teams or organizations have two sets of values. One that is neatly written but quickly forgotten. And another that, while opaque and hidden, influences how they actually behave.

This dissonance can lead to a soulless feeling at work.

If you are a leader, you are responsible for identifying the values that drive your leadership. Take time with your team to articulate the values guiding your operations. I find it most effective to name the values based on what it looks like to live them out.

When you’re done, don’t just print them out and stash them away in a drawer. When making decisions or plans, ask how the current option allows the team to live out their values. 

Look for alignment.

Alignment with your values isn’t just for work. When you become clear about what you believe and value, it will influence everything. It will shape where you live, who your friends are, and how you spend your time.

Leaders, teams and organizations who can consistently stay focused on their core values and principles will have the most staying power and impact.

Once you have identified your values, take time to audit areas of your life in light of them. When you see misalignment, make adjustments. This could mean choosing to volunteer toward something that aligns with your values. Or it could mean making a career change.

These changes won’t be easy. But alignment across domains of your life brings peace and contentment.

Next steps for StrengthsFinder belief.

As you learn to lead using your belief strength, you can guide yourself and others from misalignment to alignment.

When you get to the end, you’ll know you did it right. No more having to compromise to do your job. Instead, you can stay focused amidst distraction or temptation, experiencing a deep sense of meaning.

Leaders with the belief strength can struggle with an antipattern of extremism. Learning the strengths antipatterns will allow you to continue growing as a healthy, intentional leader. 

You are on an extraordinary journey to living and leading from your strengths. You can explore the list below to learn about the rest of your top 5 strengths.