Checklist: Identify your own strengths

In many companies today, centrally controlled talent management is hardly possible or sensible due to the many changes and the limited ability to plan. Instead, it is important to support employees locally in discovering, developing and specifically using their strengths. But how can one determine one's own strengths, and do so by oneself? The following questions can help:

1. What comes easily to you? Which tasks/activities do you do playfully, so to speak, without giving them much thought? Which ones do you excel at?
2. What motivates you and gives you energy? Which tasks attract you almost "magically"? What do you do with pleasure? What would you like to do more often?
3. Where do you get good results? In which activities do you achieve surprisingly good results - sometimes seemingly without effort?
4. When do you feel "real"? Which activities make you feel authentic and completely yourself?
5. What do you learn quickly? What facts/topics do you understand very quickly, and what did you learn without much effort?
6. What are you focusing on in particular? Which topics/developments do you follow closely? What do you find exciting?
7. What were you already very good at as a child? What did you like to do or do often when you were a child? What experiences from the past do you remember particularly fondly?
8. When is there enthusiasm in your voice? What are you passionate about? When is your voice full of energy and passion?
9. When do you use such words as "super" and "great"? In which situations, in which events do you use such phrases as "Preferably ..." and "It would be great if ...".
10. What tasks do you complete immediately? Which tasks do you often not enter in your diary because you do them immediately? Which activities do you often forget the time for?

To the author:

Frank Rebmann from Stuttgart works as a trainer and consultant for companies. He specializes in identifying and developing the strengths of employees and teams. He is the author of the book "Der Stärken-Code: Deciphering, Recognizing and Developing Your Talents." More info: www.staerkentrainer.de