Use your strengths

懒惰或谦虚是否意味着有时你没有将自己的优势发挥到极致？

因为一旦你知道了自己的长处，那么作为一名优秀的团队成员，你的职责就是发挥这些长处。

自愿参加任何你能为之做出贡献的活动。

你的团队目前面临哪些挑战？

你有哪些优势可以帮助应对这些挑战？

另外，反过来看。

你擅长什么？

什么时候你可以自愿做这些事情？

如果你觉得这个问题很难回答，那么你可以做几件事。

首先，你可以问你的同事你最擅长做什么贡献，希望他们不会因为你的回答而长时间沉默。

此外，你还可以看看我列出的团队必备角色清单，里面有你可能擅长的事情，比如组织，可以是组织人员、组织想法，也可以是推动工作快速完成。

也可能是一个人际交往者，结识新朋友，收集新想法。

也许是创造性想法的产生者，或者是相反，思考别人的计划可能会出什么问题。

也许是建立系统或确保细节得以完成。

这些可能是你通常不会主动去做的事情。

也许有些事情让你感到有些焦虑，尽管你很擅长。

或者是你觉得自己并不擅长，但也许你确实擅长的事情。

或者是你不喜欢做的事情，尽管你很擅长，团队也需要你。

或者是你不常做，但只要稍加练习就会擅长的事情。

所以，我现在想让你们做的就是思考一下。

看看清单，挑一件你可以自愿为团队做的额外事情。

Does laziness or modesty mean that sometimes you don't use your strengths to their best effect?

Because once you know your strengths, then your duty as a great team member is to use them.

Volunteer for anything that you can contribute towards.

What are the challenges that your team is facing at the moment?

And what strengths do you have that you can offer to help with these challenges?

Also, looking at it the other way around.

What are you good at?

And when can you volunteer to do those things?

If you find this question difficult, then there are a couple of things that you can do.

First, you could ask your colleagues what you're best at contributing, and hope that there isn't a long silence as they scratch their chins.

And also, have a look at my list of required team roles, which contains things that you might be good at, like organizing, and that could be people or ideas, or pushing things along to get the job done quickly.

Maybe being a networker, meeting new people, collecting new ideas.

Maybe being the creative idea generator, or the reverse of that, thinking about what might go wrong with other people's plans.

And maybe setting up systems or making sure that the detail gets done.

These might be things that you don't normally step forward and offer to do.

Perhaps there are things that make you feel a bit anxious, even though you're good at them.

Or things that you don't feel that you're good at, but maybe you are.

Or things that you don't like doing, even though you're good at them and the team needs them.

Or maybe things that you don't do very often, but which you could be good at, given a little practice.

So what I'd like you to do now is just think about that.

Have a look at the list and pick one extra thing that you can volunteer to do for the team.