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    CHAPTER FOUR    

ALIGN YOUR STRENGTHS

BIG IDEA

Align your strengths to support the accomplishment of the company’s goals so you can shape your work in a way that meets both your professional and personal needs and goals.

Strengths are your professional gold. The employee-employer relationship is a social contract based on give-and-take. When you use your strengths to enable your company to achieve its strategic goals, generate revenue, and/or serve clients, you provide value and give to the relationship. This puts you in a powerful and mutually beneficial place to then take or make an ask of your employer.

Strengths are those activities that ...

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