{"id":47524,"date":"2022-08-05T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T08:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/?p=47524"},"modified":"2025-11-18T14:26:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:26:56","slug":"capitalizing-on-your-leadership-strengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/capitalizing-on-your-leadership-strengths\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalizing on Your Leadership Strengths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this video, Emma Sepp\u00e4l\u00e4, Program Co-Convener on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/products\/yale-som-executive-education-women-in-leadership-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women\u2019s Leadership Program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the Yale School of Management Executive Education, explains how your personal strengths can help you, and your team, excel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Capitalizing on Your Leadership Strengths | Yale SOM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n2QLS8DqRBE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you understand your strengths, you can begin to cultivate your role to ensure that you get to make the most of your talents. Doing this can help make you a better leader and bring more meaning and purpose to the work you do.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-transcript\">Transcript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When you really understand deeply what your best self is, and when you\u2019re in a place where it is valued, you can actually shape your role. You can actually craft your position in such a way that you are really honing in on your strengths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a data engineer who spent most of her time behind the computer at work, and yet, she did this exercise and realized that she has these fabulous people skills and this deep empathy that really helps her mentor others. And she realized that she isn\u2019t able to perform those kind of activities in her position. And so, she crafted her job in such a way that she could engage more with other people, nurture other people on her team, and that made the job a lot more fulfilling for her. 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