Manage Your Strengths

We focus a lot on strengths and what will get us ahead at work, but new data shows how strengths can become liabilities. If you’re focused on what you do well, how you can do better and all the ways you can be an asset to your organization, you’re wise to do so, because things are especially competitive; whether you’re looking for a new job or just wanting to set yourself apart within your current organization.

New data based on almost 87,000 people from Hogan Assessments found that 89% had aspects of their personalities that could derail their careers at a moderate to high-risk level. But the most interesting aspect of the data is that the factors getting in their way were actually strengths taken too far.

When positive attributes are overused or brought into the wrong contexts, they can get in the way of our performance, reputations and relationships.

Manage Your Strengths

Only 11% of people are free of the characteristics that can be career limiters, so the likelihood that we all share some issues is high relatively high. Here’s what you must know.

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