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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
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Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Performance
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Organizational

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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best.
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Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
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