 Hi everybody today, I'm with Liesl Teversham and we're going to be talking about strengths and why they're so important for us to discover our strengths of people to really thrive in our career or in our business But first I'm going to I'm going to read Liesl's bio So you have a sense of her overall background and then we'll we'll bring her forward So Liesl Teversham helps sensitive souls and introverts build confidence She helps them work through the blocks and fears that stop them and find and embrace their true Authentic strengths two of her favorite tools are EFT tapping which I think some of you may have heard of that and the Gallup strengths finder which from what I know is the most researched Methodology on strengths and talents they provide a solid foundation for any introvert who wants to make a difference in the world In their unique quiet way Hi Liesl. Great to have you here Thank you so much George. It's wonderful to be with you. Thank you. Yeah, so I will let you take over I think you prepared some materials to share with us. So I'm excited for this Thank you so much. So let me go and find that and Share that with our listeners. Is it visible? Yes? It is looks great Awesome. So I'd like to just start by sharing how this work started And because that can already gives us some clues what strengths finder can do for us So in the 1960s, uh, they were about I think 10,006 graders participating in a study to help researchers discover what study of Helping them to or what method of helping them to read force. It was going to be the best tool So they repeated the study a few times because at first I couldn't believe the results because what happened is It didn't really actually matter what method they used to help them improve their reading speed But what mattered was The difference between the pupils who were slow readers and fast readers The slow readers improved overall over these few weeks of the study They improved from about 90 words a minute to 150 words a minute And that's already awesome. It's a 66 improvement But what happened is the fast readers started off at about 350 words a minute And they improved over the same length of time to 2,900 words a minute So that really Yeah, the the researchers was not expecting this result They thought the slower readers would get the most benefit So that really made them sit up and say well, we've got to do something with this information What what is this really telling us? So as they repeat repeated the study again and again They thought well, you know, it seems that the things are already easy for us We improve in those areas much faster with much less effort and with much more joy Than the things that we already are struggling with those things that we get at f in in school Where we usually tell people go, you know trying to improve that that is such hard work And it's effort and it's quite draining for the body and brain actually So that's how the strings find a movement started They found that if we build on our strings, we improve force that's not we it's just a wonderful experience So that's where it started and now one of the principles I share with my clients as we start this work is We are like the fish in the water with our strings So George, I'm going to be cheeky and ask you what comes up for you if you think about A fish in the water. What was it? What what is it about? well, it's fish and water they Don't think it's anything remarkable. They're just breathing and you know kind of thriving there and Yeah, but it's hard for us, right? To breathe in the water. It's impossible Exactly exactly and that is exactly what happens for us with our strings. It's almost like we The fish is swimming there in the sea or wherever they are and they see the other fishes they see the rocks they see the You know these divers inside the water And they're aware of all those other things in the environment, but what they're not aware of is the water Because the water is completely normal to them by this time They are the water is there all the time and that's the one thing they're not aware of And for us for people, it's like air we breathe air all the time, but we don't have to think about it It just happens. It's there. It's provided our lungs do the work for us with our strings. It's the same thing We don't even know that we have these strings because we are so used to them We think the things that come naturally and easily to us Is just that thing that I do, you know, it's nothing special Um, and therefore we kind of tend to discount it. We think, ah, you know, it's just something that I that's easy for me Well, I believe when we find our strings We can make so much more of them and it's sometimes very surprising to people to hear what these strings are and I also believe that we need to get paid highest for the things that are easiest for us Because those are the things that other people struggle with So that is something I keep reminding my clients of is don't think that the things that are easy for you is nothing special Not everybody find them easy Yes, in fact, the things that are easy for you are the most special, you know, oftentimes. Yeah Exactly. Exactly, George. Um, that is something that we really, really tend to forget and in this work It becomes very apparent when we start chatting about people's top five strings or so that We have unique things combined and that nicely leads us into the next little topic that I want to just mention is Sometimes people are a bit resistant or they think I don't want to be put in another box You know, yes, this is another thing that tells me the way I am What I really love about strings finder is it helps us to understand how unique we are Not how much we are the same than other people with the same strength and um How I know that is we can either do the strings finder for your top five Or for your full 34 the the whole complement of strings So if we just even talk about your top five The chance that somebody else has your top five Is one in two hundred and eighty thousand Wow So that's that's really Yeah, that's that's unique that really tells you that even with five strings you are pretty unique It's not everybody the next bush. There's not another george under the next bush However, if you Consider the possibility that somebody else has the same exact Order of your top five The chance of that goes down to one in 33.9 million Wow So that made me set up and think as well. Wow And then we haven't even considered all the other the rest of the 34 strings We're only talking about top five And we haven't considered your background your history your upbringing your values your Spirituality all the things that you have learned your skills your knowledge That's how we need unique we are and strings finder really brings us home And so I love this quote of oscar while that says Be yourself because everybody else has really been taken And strings finder and this you know the the information that it provides us about what's really unique and beautiful about ourselves Helps to bring that home And the next little bit that I want to mention is about the bigger picture So I was talking about about the top five and the full 34 Often people start out with the top five and it's brilliant because it gives us a great start And what's really amazing about us and what we are great at and then the full 34 just gives us this bigger picture Some people here may recognize. Do you recognize the picture? Do you know what this is? Uh, it's I guess a golf course. Yes, exactly So working with our full 34 gives us the same sort of ideas as knowing what's happening on a golf course We know we've got to aim aim the ball to the pin. That's like our goals in life We want to get to the pin but we want to get there the shortest easiest and most enjoyable way So that's like aiming down the fairway And our top 10 to 12 strings in that list of 34 is like going down the fairway It's the easiest straightest way most enjoyable. We love it. It's like oh, yes, I can do this I'm getting there and it's in the least amount of strokes Just a little bit outside of that is the rough When our ball lands there we go. Oh, no, this is not so nice. But okay, I can choose a different club or you know A longer one or a one that goes with a more curve or we can take a different approach or He'd pass this tree and then pass that tree. So it's about choice there We choose what what what we're going to do now And that's what the next lot of our strengths is the the sort of middle lot between about 12 and 29 or so Those are the strings that we can choose to use Whereas the ones that that's our fairway like the top 10 to 12 is our energizing strength when we use them we feel energised motivated inspired Effective so it's the easy way and a very enjoyable way to go forward in life Now out from the rough is those bunkers those places where we land in the sand and we go Oh, no, and we can't see out of it and the ball rolls back again if we try and get it out. It's really hard work And those are the bottom five to eight strengths and our full city fall So when we land in the bunker with a strength, it feels like it's hard work It's draining. It's not easy for us and it takes a lot of energy because those are the places where it doesn't We haven't got the neural pathways that that is easy for us to use. It's effort It's a lot of thinking I know you talk about habits, you know, the more we develop habits the easier it is for us to do because it's automatic And it's very similar with our strengths. The automatic ones are the top 10 to 12. It's easy comes naturally The bottom five to eight very hard work. It's draining. It's literally we call them our draining strengths and we It's almost like we actively resist them It's not easy to try and bring those bottom ones up to the top and neither do we have to because I think in the next slide I mentioned something that is Very interesting to me Is that when we know our strengths and we know the strengths of people around us This really comes to the fore that Somebody else's biggest the biggest difference from me is their biggest service to me Because This difference is exactly what helps us to function in teams what help what make us help each other What I can do extremely easily is hard for somebody else and what's Hard for me. Somebody else can help me with and so we complement each other in that way Life becomes very full of color We don't have to be able to do everything Well, we don't have to strive to be like the next person who does that thing. Well, like I have a lot of empathy That's natural for me And I don't get into action very easily because the action talent is right at the bottom. It's draining for me. So I Invite a lot of people into my life with the action talent the activator To help me get into action and that's how life can get really really colorful and we can support each other I love that. That's great And I think a last Topic maybe to cover here is just to give people a little bit of insight of they are 34 talent or strengths And they are in these different talent clusters. So there's executing talents influencing talents relationship building talents and thinking talents and There are about nine of these 34 talents in each of these groups and So executing talents are the way that people get things done. So people with high execution talents Usually it's easy for them to Execute in certain ways they get things done. They can be consistent. They can plan and schedule um, they can They they finished what they started and so on. So those are the executing talents And then we get the influencing talents and those are the people that are great with help getting others to to do the work And we need those those are the leaders who can tell other people's like here's what I you know people find it very easy to follow them and So things like for instance, there's the activating talent if you've got the activator you can help other people to get into action very easily Then the relationship building talents or the people who are just the glue that keep companies and Teams working together. They they great at getting the best out of each person The people people of the world and empathy for instance is in that column. So I have a lot of empathy harmony I love peace and harmony so I can create that in my environment and then the strategic thinking talents or all the the people with the talents that Expand the thinking of people is where conception happens a lot of thinking before action And so we all talented perhaps in one cluster more than another And some of us are very talented in all of them Other people have more executing strengths. They can do well, but they don't work with people so well And and that kind of thing. So I think that's just the brilliant thing is we don't all have to be Good at everything and if we complement each other if we understand And certain things about ourselves with these talents and strengths It's just so much easier for us to to have compassion for what we're not great with and easier to understand the people around us and You know, we don't we we can stop judging ourselves for not or for For instance, I stopped comparing myself With other people who do certain things very well And and now I know it looking, you know what? I don't have to be like that. I don't have to be a Kick-ass coach. I always thought I had to be a kick-ass coach like some of my friends I'm not like that and I never will be I love my talents now And I think that's the one thing that this can do for us is it helps us to accept ourselves Um, our strengths and our weaker areas. It's not that we can't improve our weaker areas We absolutely can but they're draining and it takes much more effort to try and improve in those areas So I think I talked a mile a minute Too many questions No, this is fantastic. And so how do people discover their talents? How do people get the Get the analysis for for themselves That's a great question. So gallop strings finder. These are a website and I think it's called gallopstrengthscenter.com and anybody can go on to there and You can choose to buy your top five, which I think at the moment is 19 dollars and Full 34 is 89 as far as I can remain. Oh, it's 49. They brought the price down quite recently. So it's 49 dollars It's much more affordable than it's called. It's officially called Clifton strings Yes, they used to call it gallop and then Donald Clifton was the father of this movement and when he died a couple years ago They renamed it to Clifton strings. And is there a do you have some kind of link or code that we should use? Um, I don't have a particular link or code. No, so anybody can just go to that that Website and go and do their their strings finder You can start with top five if you want and then upgrade later and just pay the difference Because it's actually one assessment whether you top five or full 34. They test all your strengths at the same time Yeah So if anybody has done the top five before and they want to upgrade just remember your username and password You can go in and upgrade to the to the full one So um, so yeah, one of the things I do is I love taking people through their Top five and full 34 and helping them to understand in a very unique way. What is it about them because When I have say say I've got the achiever talent and you've got the achiever talent George We it won't show up us for us in exactly the same way because of our surrounding talents Because of everything else that you've got it kind of colors it in a different way To the color that I have on my achiever talent and that's why this is so unique and fascinating and interesting and very empowering Wow, so uh, so you the work you do with clients in terms of this is once they have the report um, they send it to you and then You coach them on how to Well, you kind of coach them on the nuances of these things, but also how to express these things that right? Yes Yes, you said it in such a great way So we we go through a process of awareness first Is like what is each of these because I get a report But it's sometimes a bit dry and boring to just read something and then yeah put it in the drawer So I want them to understand it in the context of their own life In the career that they currently have maybe in careers. I've had in relationships Um, and it just gives them this awesome picture of why certain things happen that way for them and and what to do with it and We each have the possibility to mismanage a strength in which case it becomes a detriment Or we can manage it well in which case it's really a strength So for instance, I can make mismanage my empathy and become like a bleeding heart and feel sorry for everybody And it's very draining and you know, just like it doesn't work that well But if I apply it in a in a more productive way It can work wonders and that's possible for every single strength. We can mismanage them too Oh, that's wonderful. So you really bring it alive. You bring color to to this this report and help people to activate the There's their strengths in a in a way that's serves their serves their goals and their visions and kind of helps them succeed Yes, yes, exactly Exactly Great. Well, is there anything else you want to share before we yeah, here we go Yeah, I just wanted to share this quote and I may get a bit teary because I get teary every time I think about this Good it's by more so graham. She was the mother of modern dawn So she was a ballet dancer and choreographer that lived Somewhere in the 1800s 1900s and she said there is a vitality a life force a quickening that is translated Through you into action and there is only one of you in all time This expression is unique and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost The world will not have it And so that just you know It touches me every time. So this work really helps us to really be That uniqueness and to remember that if we don't express ourselves in our unique way, it is lost to the world forever Wow thank you for that and and um and the second part of this quote is about how It's funny that it is your business To keep your it's not your business. It's yeah, right. It is right. It's not your business to to compare But it is your business to keep the channel open right and Since so many of us are building businesses. That's an authentic business is one where that vitality and life force Is being channeled to us through that through us clearly. So thank you leesl I hope that those watching this will find this Who find this interesting will go ahead and take the gallup test or the clifton strengths test and then contact you Should they contact you first or should they take the test first? What's your recommendation? They're welcome to contact me first george and then I can help them discover What's you know, what's their purpose for knowing it? And then I can help them to decide whether they want to start with top five or they want to go to full city for Yeah, great way or so. So I have a coupon code that if they want to go on was Full with a top five is a coupon code that I can provide them with not for the taste itself But for the work with me to go through the top five so we can put that in the in the links in the comments Oh, yeah, that'd be great for sure. I'll do that All right. Well, thank you so much leesl Thank you george. It was really a pleasure to speak with you and thank you so much for this invitation You're welcome and I look forward to seeing if anybody Chooses to do this work And I you know if you do please comment below and let us know how it went because I I think this will be beneficial if you found this fascinating and you want to Stop comparing yourself and gather that energy to channel towards the vitality that and and and the pathway that is most Meant for you. That's most authentic for you. I hope you do this work with leesl. So thanks leesl Thank you so much george