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Level Up: How to Use Your Unique Strengths to Develop Your Competencies and Reach Your Goals
A new and powerful way to make progress on almost any issue in our lives.
Are you ready to take yourself to the next level but feel a bit stuck or overwhelmed? You came to the right place. Level Up will help you regain your forward momentum by using a personal and powerful method to become the best possible version of you, both as a person and as a leader.
Rather than being asked to conform to a one-size-fits-all program, you will learn how to leverage your unique strengths to create powerful competencies that will help you make real progress on the goals that will take you toward your vision.
Confused with all the advice in self-help and leadership books? Many seem to go too deep with unusable insights or tell us to “be like me.” In Level Up, Michael Oster provides an effective new approach, one that will encourage you to be “more like you.”
Level Up is a practical guide to use what you’ve got to get where you want to go.
You will learn to use your
strengths to improve thecompetencies that will help youreach your goalsin the direction of your visionFor those who want to produce the best results they are capable of, Level Up provides the concepts, perspectives, and tools to do so. Here the reader will discover how to form powerful competency-strength combinations they can use to successfully address almost any issue.
Everything is right here—your Why, your What, and your How—
Your Vision
Accomplishing Your Goals and Objectives
Your Competency-Strength Combinations
If you are a leader facing new challenges, a high achiever who wishes to take yourself to the next level, or a high potential who wants to hit the ground running, Level Up is for you. Here you will find many interesting concepts, perspectives, and useful ways to use the 17 Level Up Competencies as channels to carry your strengths toward the vision you have for yourself.
With this new approach and the Level Up Personal Development Program, you can expect to begin producing improved results immediately.
Are you ready to take yourself to the next level but feel a bit stuck or overwhelmed? You came to the right place. Level Up will help you regain your forward momentum by using a personal and powerful method to become the best possible version of you, both as a person and as a leader.
Rather than being asked to conform to a one-size-fits-all program, you will learn how to leverage your unique strengths to create powerful competencies that will help you make real progress on the goals that will take you toward your vision.
Confused with all the advice in self-help and leadership books? Many seem to go too deep with unusable insights or tell us to “be like me.” In Level Up, Michael Oster provides an effective new approach, one that will encourage you to be “more like you.”
Level Up is a practical guide to use what you’ve got to get where you want to go.
You will learn to use your
strengths to improve thecompetencies that will help youreach your goalsin the direction of your visionFor those who want to produce the best results they are capable of, Level Up provides the concepts, perspectives, and tools to do so. Here the reader will discover how to form powerful competency-strength combinations they can use to successfully address almost any issue.
Everything is right here—your Why, your What, and your How—
Your Vision
Accomplishing Your Goals and Objectives
Your Competency-Strength Combinations
If you are a leader facing new challenges, a high achiever who wishes to take yourself to the next level, or a high potential who wants to hit the ground running, Level Up is for you. Here you will find many interesting concepts, perspectives, and useful ways to use the 17 Level Up Competencies as channels to carry your strengths toward the vision you have for yourself.
With this new approach and the Level Up Personal Development Program, you can expect to begin producing improved results immediately.
- GenresPersonal Development
344 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 26, 2020
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About the author
Michael Oster
1 bookMichael C. Oster helps high achievers and those with high potential become more successful and live more meaningful lives. Utilizing his 20+ years of experience as a CEO and Board of Directors leader to profit and nonprofit organizations, he lives his Level Up Method as the Principal of Level Up Advisors. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
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July 14, 2020
“Level Up” by Michael Oster is an interesting book. I like the fact that he emphasizes the point that we should work on our strengths. Too often, we focus on our weaknesses, and this leads to frustration.
In his next chapter, he has provided the leader with some links to help the reader assess his/her strengths online. Some of these services are free, and it is worthwhile going through these strength finder tests. Not doing so will render the rest of the book somewhat redundant, and you will not be able to follow along as he gives specific techniques.
The book contains an exhaustive description of the kinds of strength-competence combinations that a person can, or could, have, and describes how they can be used.
This is where I had a dissonance with the book. It took me back to the early days of my career when I had undergone a Myers-Briggs test. I discovered that we don’t always use the subtle distinctions that the tests slot us into when we deal with specific situations in life.
The final part of the book is too short, in my opinion.
What I like is that Michael Oster gives you some free resources that are available on his website.
I recommend this book to someone at the early stage of their career. I am not sure how practical the lessons are for someone in the mid-stage of their career.
The standout insights for me, however, are the fact that he focusses on using your strengths and competencies. There are very few people who do this.
In his next chapter, he has provided the leader with some links to help the reader assess his/her strengths online. Some of these services are free, and it is worthwhile going through these strength finder tests. Not doing so will render the rest of the book somewhat redundant, and you will not be able to follow along as he gives specific techniques.
The book contains an exhaustive description of the kinds of strength-competence combinations that a person can, or could, have, and describes how they can be used.
This is where I had a dissonance with the book. It took me back to the early days of my career when I had undergone a Myers-Briggs test. I discovered that we don’t always use the subtle distinctions that the tests slot us into when we deal with specific situations in life.
The final part of the book is too short, in my opinion.
What I like is that Michael Oster gives you some free resources that are available on his website.
I recommend this book to someone at the early stage of their career. I am not sure how practical the lessons are for someone in the mid-stage of their career.
The standout insights for me, however, are the fact that he focusses on using your strengths and competencies. There are very few people who do this.
June 30, 2021
A very motivational self-help book. Level Up: How to Use Your Unique Strengths to Develop Your Competencies and Reach Your Goals by Michael Oster was amazing in so many ways. I love that it tackles about the importance of appreciating our strength and making use of it the best that we can. I love the author's way of writing. It was very encouraging and simplistic as well. I found myself connected to most of the things that it tackles.
I have read several books that tackle about how to reach your own potential and this book is one of the best that I have read. Its approach is sincere, practical, and very relatable. For someone who doesn't trust myself often, this book helped me a lot and it made me want to trust my own potentials and be confident and positive. Consider yourself blessed when you read this book!
I have read several books that tackle about how to reach your own potential and this book is one of the best that I have read. Its approach is sincere, practical, and very relatable. For someone who doesn't trust myself often, this book helped me a lot and it made me want to trust my own potentials and be confident and positive. Consider yourself blessed when you read this book!
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