Collaborative Leadership Advancement Program: Values, Passions, Strengths Defined

What do most successful people have in common?  They are living a life full of purpose, driven by their values and passions while leveraging their strengths.  At our recent Collaborative Leadership Advancement Program session we brought our clients through several exercises to uncover their values, passions and strengths. 

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Values: What you believe in, what you consider worthwhile or desirable.  Having a life that includes your leading values is of fundamental importance to your personal happiness.

"Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds & thoughts." Allan Bloom

Passions:  The engine that drives you.  It is something you do that gives you great

 joy and engages your deepest emotions.  It is not just what you do; its what you choose to do.

"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass."  Paul J. Meyer

Strengths:  These are the things you do consistently and very well (near perfectly). Some Strengths are innate while others are learned, nonetheless, they are those activities that you do extremely well every time.

"Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer." Peter Drucker

When was the last time you gave your values, passions and strengths some deep reflection and consideration?  Would love to hear your practices, thoughts and/or breakthroughs!

Some Resources:  

The Michelangelo Method by Kenneth Schuman and Robert Paxton a step by step guide to uncovering the masterpiece within all of us.  

Now Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham proposes a unique approach of enhancing one's strengths rather than focusing on eliminating one's weaknesses.