Strengths: A Self-renewing Energy Source

Why Strengths? It has become common knowledge that having an opportunity to use your strengths every day in your job leads to greater engagement. Recently, I was in a discussion of Job Fit and the different approaches that can be used when matching people to positions. The first strategy is Adapting: training and coaching people on the skills […]

Who’s High Maintenance In Your Life?

We call someone ‘high maintenance’ when responding to them requires us to use energy above and beyond what we consider normal. In other words, I have to do things that don’t come naturally to me and it will cost me energy to restrain my natural response and additional energy to produce the necessary behavior. For […]