Author: Cathy Davis
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3 Of The Best Books About Self-Discovery
I’m always surprised by how many people are unaware of their natural strengths and talents. We take for granted those things that come easily and naturally to us and assume others can do what we do.
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A Guide For Parents: 5 Strategies To Help Uncover Natural Talents In Children
What if you could help the kids in your life—your children, nieces, nephews, grandkids, students, friends—develop an awareness and appreciation of their own unique talents and skills from a young age? What if you could help them understand that they have their very own collection of internal gifts unlike anyone else’s? What would their lives…
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5 Reasons To Discover Your Unique Ability® Together
At Strategic Coach, discussing activities that energize and fuel us is the norm. As team members, we’re encouraged to unearth our Unique Ability and our best strategies toward teamwork. This type of work environment allows us to feel more connected to one another—in addition to allowing for extraordinary teamwork. This is why we strongly advocate…
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Courage vs. Confidence
Every once in a while, you have an experience where the lesson learned leads to a huge jump in your capability. Who knew fear, uncertainty, and discomfort would be the secret sauce to increasing your confidence? For this confession, I’m taking to the “big screen.” Watch at your own risk! [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN9u3I-bctQ[/embedyt] Your challenge, should…
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How Do You Deliver Your “Why?”
“People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it.” – Simon Sinek I sat in on a Strategic Coach Program workshop recently where Dan shared a brilliant TED talk by Simon Sinek called “How Great Leaders Inspire Action.” The crux of his argument is that people in business tend to talk a lot about…
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Leadership Revolution
My biggest area of growth over the past year (or five) has been in understanding and being comfortable with demonstrating leadership. My issue has always been not wanting to be perceived as a person who is overstepping or meddling in areas of the company where I don’t directly “work.” What I’ve come to learn (through…
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Delegation Is Not A Dirty Word
Unique Ability as a way of life works only if you have other people around you to do your non-Unique Ability activities, freeing you up to do only what you love and do best. You might not relish the idea of relying on others, but doing everything yourself is no fun at all. Nor is…
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A Very Scary Question
I was recently describing to someone what I do for a living—project manager, program designer, coach. They asked me all the usual follow-up questions, including how long I’ve been with the company. I was very amused by how surprised they were when I shared with them that I’ve been working with Strategic Coach for 13…
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Let’s Get One Thing Clear – Unique Ability
I’m passionate about clarity—almost annoyingly so if you ask those around me! I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one, right? We want clarity for ourselves, which means we need it from others. For me, I want it from my teammates as well as from Dan Sullivan and Babs Smith, the entrepreneurs who have a…
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Do Your Talents Get You Into Trouble?
Unique Ability is a powerful force. What is Unique Ability exactly? It’s a superior ability you have that other people notice and really count on you for. You’re passionate about doing it. In fact, you can’t not do it. It energizes you and everyone around you, and it also feels like there are limitless possibilities…