Three Key Questions

What is required of me?

What gives me my greatest return?

What brings the greatest reward?

Find the intersection of these three questions and you have found your strength zone. This formula was born after 25+ years of leadership by John Maxwell. He summarized his response to the above three questions like this; Connecting, Communicating, and Creating.

Stay In Your Strength Zone

People do not pay for average. People do not go looking for a mediocre restaurant. Employers do not award the contract to a salesman named Mr. Average. Nobody says, Let’s give the contract to the company that will merely do an adequately job. Here are some suggestions that will assist you in the discovery of your strength zone.

Trial and Error: Nothing teaches you more than your successes and failures. You must be willing to fail in order to discover your successes.

The Counsel of Others: Asking others to evaluate your effectiveness is not always fun. Be sure to chose people who do not have an agenda. Consider the Birkman 360 to get a solid report on God’s design of yourself and others perception of that design.

Personality Tests: There are many of these types of instruments. My all-time choice is the Birkman Questionnaire. Dr. Roger Birkman, founder had a drive to discover how we were fearfully and wonderfully made. This tool stands apart from all others. Some other suggestions might the Myers/Briggs, Strength Finders, or Disc.

Personal Experience: You get a feel for how well you do something repeatedly. Remember that experience is not the best teacher – evaluated experience is the best teacher!