Strengths

Our meeting was all about what makes you feel strong.

Norma showed a video from Marcus Buckingham in which he shared the valuable insight that the traditional definition of a strength, something you're good at, is insufficient. Rather a strength is something that meets these three general criteria:

1. Something you yearn to do, something you look forward to.

2. Something you do that puts you in the zone, it takes no effort to concentrate, and time flies by.

3. Something that has a restorative feeling associated with it. When it's over you feel energized.

Norma suggested we focus less on what we're bad at, and more on our strengths, since that's where the most improvement will come from. She challenged us to find what each of our strengths in life are.


Julio gave a great speech entitled "Engineers Have Feelings Too!" Doctors and Lawyers have a shiny reputation, but when an Engineer states his occupation at a party, people run for the bathroom. Why is that? At the start of the 20th century engineers were treated like Gods, what happened!?

Our other speaker, Bik, told an entertaining tail of ill health when travelling, we've all been there!

Great job Powerspeakers, feel free to leave any comments you may have about the meeting. See you next week!

New Website.

The new website (www.powerspeakers.ca) is up and fully functional. As pictures (especially of the exec) start to trickle in I'll post them. For the time being, you can go there to download worksheets for your roles, and be sure to point any friends or acquaintances in that direction!