In their practical and fascinating book Nine Lies About Work, Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall make a strong case for achieving excellent performance by building team member’s strengths, not fixing their weaknesses. They sight examples from the sporting world (Messi) and politics (Churchill) of people who turned their strengths into excellence.
What does that mean for team leaders?
If we spend our time trying to turn weaknesses into strengths, we will get good team members. Good but not great. To achieve great, focus on what they already do well, help them hone and refine it, steer work their way that they can excel at, and everybody is happy.
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