Claim Your Specialty
A Situational Pattern.
Situation
Teams are comprised of different specialties working together to produce something greater than any one individual could achieve. So what’s your specialty? When others on your team think of you, what set of skills come to mind? How intentional have you been in defining this? Claim Your Specialty. It’s yours to define.
Pattern
1. Identify your strengths.
Explore your work and what you do. What stands out as an area where you’re strong? If you’re not quite sure that’s ok. Get feedback from others and see what comes forward.
2. Find your passion.
Out of all the things you do, what gets you excited? What makes your eyes widen and sit on the edge of your seat? How might what you’re passionate about connect to a strength?
3. Claim your specialty.
Combining your strengths with your passion, what comes to mind? If you apply this combo to your current team what might it look like? What would your specialty be and how might you utilize this combo to improve your team?
4. Test it out.
Apply your specialty. Maybe it’s an audit, a presentation or perhaps a new angle to contributing. Identify some measurable way to see how you can apply the combo of your strength plus passion.
5. Get feedback and adjust.
Check in with your teammates. Get their perspective on what you tested. Chat with your manager. If the feedback is positive, continue. If not quite what you expected, take the feedback and pivot. Continue moving forward and developing your specialty.
Why
In any team there is room for change and growth. How you show up and what you claim as your specialty is up to you. When you connect your strengths with your passion amazing can happen. Try it out and make win/win happen for you and your team.
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