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The Strengths Trap: How Overplaying Your Strengths Harms Trust (Part II)
Part I of this blog described how over-emphasizing the trust-building factors in the Trust Equation without balancing your self-orientation can actually hurt your trustworthiness. It also identified many internal and external triggers that might increase self-orientation. In this post, we explore specific actions you can take to avoid over-playing your strengths. The Goldilocks Effect In […] Read More

The Strengths Trap: How Overplaying Your Strengths Harms Trust (Part I)
Playing to our strengths can be seductive. We all want to feel we are presenting our best selves, and that naturally leads us to emphasize those things at which we excel. It’s often how we define our professional roles, our careers, even ourselves. Too Much of a Good Thing Some modern psychometric tools are built […] Read More

Six Hacks to Get into the Trusted Advisor Mindset
In a recent TrustMatters webinar, I shared four key attributes of Trusted Advisor relationships, and six mindsets that can help you get there. You can view this and all our free webinar recordings here. For those of you who prefer to read versus watching a recording, here’s what we discussed. Four Attributes of Trusted Advisor […] Read More