Optimize Your Strengths: Use your leadership strengths to get the best out of you and your team

by James Brook, Dr. Paul Brewerton

Discover your unique edge. Each of us has our own set of strengths, abilities and skills that allow us to shine and deliver exceptional results. These are our underlying qualities that energise us and we are great at (or have potential to become great at). But how do you understand and build upon your strengths and how do you inspire others to do the same? Optimize Your Strengths provides a proven strengths-based approach to achieving peak performance for you and your team. You'll discover your core strengths and learn how to use these to bring out the best in yourself and inspire passion, innovation and engagement in those you lead. Using the Stretch Leadership Model, leadership and organisational development experts, James Brook and Paul Brewerton, show you how to lead beyond boundaries and develop positive habits that drive you to continuously improve and take advantage of new opportunities. Through a fictional narrative that brings the subject to life; follow the journey of Joe (a leader facing both personal and professional crises), as you learn

176 pages, Paperback

Published May 2, 2016

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

At first I found the style of the book a little off-putting, presenting the concepts in a story. But towards true end of the book I found that I was enjoying it more - and thinking I will(should) use some of the online resources they reference to analyse my own strengths and start to use some of the techniques and approaches they recommend. I like the ideas around focussing on stretching yourself in your areas of strength, and the concept of “a strength in overdrive” being counter productive.