BLOG 090120: Learn How To Manage Around Your Weaknesses And Get On The Path To Excellent Performance

Learn How To Manage Around Your Weaknesses And Get On The Path To Excellent Performance

You're an on-the-go, hard-at-work CEO, president, small business owner, or leader who's looking for an edge, an advantage, an opportunity, and/or a better way to do things.

Therefore from now on, I'm going to be sharing extremely useful content in short, less-then-two-minutes-to-read blog posts.

Focus on Strengths and Weaknesses

If you've read my prior four blogs, I've focused on strengths and weaknesses. 

Why does that matter?

It matters because knowing your strengths will help you and the people with whom you work to achieve consistent near-perfect performance—performance that is both excellent AND fulfilling.

To do this, you need a deep, discerning understanding of your strengths and weaknesses. As mentioned in a prior email, the legendary business management guru Peter Drucker stated that "most Americans do not know what their strengths are."

After 42 years of working with over 150,000 workshop and seminar attendees as a trainer, coach, and consultant, I have to agree.

Since the first three blogs focused on strengths, this one will cover your weaknesses, particularly how you can manage around them. But first...

A Weakness Defined

What is a WEAKNESS? It's anything that gets in the way of excellent performance. Memorize this specific definition.

Note that my Webster's dictionary defines weakness as 1: the quality or state of being mentally or intellectually deficient; 4b: lacking skill or proficiency.

Keep away from this definition since we all have many areas we lack skill or proficiency and THEY DON'T MATTER!

Five Strategies

So, here are five creative strategies to manage around your weaknesses (that DO matter):

  1. Get a little better at it. For many roles, there are baseline requirements that you can work on and at which you can get better. Communicating is one such area.
  2. Design a support system
  3. Use one of your strengths to overwhelm your weakness
  4. Find a partner
  5. Just stop doing it.

In follow-up blogs, I'll go deeper into each strategy so you can gain a complete understanding and select the one strategy that will serve you best at the moment.

Thanks for reading, and I welcome your comments, questions. Just email me (JimC@BSF.consulting) or call me (919-263-1256).

Best regards,


Jim Castiglia, Founder 
Business Street Fighter Consulting, LLC
919-900-7865
http://www.BSF.Consulting