How to Identify and Leverage Your Strengths for Growth, with Darren Virassammy
Release Date: 07/26/2022
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We all have our own strengths and weaknesses. But when it comes to business, leaders who understand their own — and those of their teams — can often grow their companies faster, more sustainably, and with less stress for everyone involved.
Our latest guest is an expert on identifying those strengths and harnessing their power: Darren Virassammy is the co-founder of 34 Strong, public speaker, and someone obsessed with seeing personal greatness through connection with nature. He helps both those in corporate America and individuals reach the potential they desire.
Listen to the full episode for more about how companies can use their employees’ individual characteristics and strengths to build a strong team culture, why it’s so important to understand your own strengths and weaknesses, and what Darren says has been the “greatest training” for being an entrepreneur.
Here’s a Glimpse of What You’ll Learn:
- What makes the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment different from other personality tests, and how people can use it to develop both professionally and personally
- How to be in tune with your own strengths — and what that can teach you about your weaknesses
- Why it’s important for an organization’s culture to understand its employees’ strengths, so they can be put in positions where they’re most likely to succeed
- More about Darren’s company, 34 Strong
- How Darren measures employee engagement at his own organization, and why that’s such an important indicator
- Why Darren chose to go back to martial arts, and how it’s helped him in his own entrepreneurship journey
- What gets missed when people fall into the “just check the box” mindset, in business and in life
- How the concept of understanding your specific strengths applies outside of the workplace, and to family life as well
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