Unlock your full potential with the transformative power of self-assessment! Our latest episode is a treasure trove of insights, as we sit down with a guest expert to delve into the world of SOAR analysis. This innovative approach moves beyond the traditional SWOT by emphasizing strengths and opportunities over weaknesses. Prepare to reshape your challenges and amplify your strengths like you never thought possible.
During our riveting conversation, we dissect the four key components of SOAR: Strengths, Opportunities, Actions, and Responsibilities. Our expert sheds light on how you can identify your capabilities and, more importantly, how to harness them for personal and professional growth. Whether you're aiming to nourish a growth mindset within your team or looking to elevate your own game, this episode is your roadmap to proactive improvement and embracing responsibility—all through the lens of constructive coaching. Join us on this enlightening journey and watch as your strengths soar to new heights.
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Speaker 1:
One of the greatest exercises in knowing your strengths and this is going to sound really, really weird to do is to do something called a SOAR analysis S-O-A-R, and you do it in four quadrants the upper left is S, across to the right is O, at the lower left is A, and then R S is strengths, O is opportunities, A is actions, R is responsibility. It's something that is, I would say, a derivative of the SWOT analysis, which is strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and so I look at it a little bit differently. I don't like the word weaknesses because that instills something emotionally in people. When you think about a weakness as an opportunity, you reframe your relationship with it. Make a list of your top five strengths that you've exhibited this year. Then make a list of two or three opportunities where, if you improved, you would protect your strengths. Isn't that interesting? Then the A is what actions do you need to take to facilitate the improvement in the opportunity section? And then here's the cool one. They are what's your responsibility, or what will be your responsibility, or how will you demonstrate responsibility, executing and sharing and communicating the progress of protecting your strengths and improving in your opportunity area. You can do this for yourself. You can also have your people do this for themselves. Here's a cool thing.
Speaker 1:
One of the things I love that we do at our company is we teach people how to coach to assessment results. Now the SOAR analysis. It's an assessment, but it's really an analysis, and what you do when you get those results, they've opened the door to be coached. Now, if you do this for yourself and you want to hand it to your boss, you've opened yourself to be coached. You've made it easier All too often and I just heard this at a company the other day where the whole company not part of the company, the whole company 1,000 employees had this general consensus that coaching was a bad thing.
Speaker 1:
I have to be coached. It's punitive, it's wrong, I must be doing something wrong. I'm like, wait a minute, how did you get there? And they were telling me of a leadership book that they were reading and I said, well, I've read the same book. That's not what it says in that book and somehow it got misconstrued or misunderstood. So coaching is about leveraging your strengths and about using those strengths to create more opportunities and addressing those opportunities to do what? Build more strengths.