The Touchwood Project

If you know what you’re naturally good at, and do that every day, you are 300% more likely to be successful in your work and have a better quality of life. That’s according to research conducted by Gallup of over 10 million people over the past 30 years. Out of these findings, they’ve developed StrengthsFinder, an online survey to assess your top 5 “strengths” out of 34 different possibilities. What we’re… Read the rest of this article >>

Overbearing corporate-ness is a problem with StrengthsFinder, its assumption that you must be manager at a Fortune 500 company if you’re reading it. That assumption turns off a lot of people, but there’s good stuff here if you can get past that. That’s why today I want to have a little creative fun while looking at the 4 categories of strengths in StrengthsFinder and how to use your type of strength to help you… Read the rest of this article >>

Have you taken Strengthsfinder and had “Ideation” as one of your top 5? Know someone who has? Today I’m writing about something pretty specific: how to develop Ideation as a strength. If you don’t know about Strengthsfinder, it’s a fantastic personal development tool I’ve written about before. Strengthsfinder has fundamentally changed how I live and work, helping me see what’s unique and wonderful about what I… Read the rest of this article >>

To the utopians, Trekkies, sci-fi dorks and all those who dream of a dazzling future: this one’s for you. Today I’m talking about the “Futuristic” strength in StrengthsFinder and how Futuristic people are going to help save the world. It’s part of an on-going series of articles on identifying and using your strengths with the help of tools like StrengthsFinder. (I know we still need to post about how the Power… Read the rest of this article >>