{"id":624,"date":"2021-12-30T17:51:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T17:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/?p=624"},"modified":"2025-09-20T17:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:53:59","slug":"lead-from-strengths-as-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/2021\/12\/30\/lead-from-strengths-as-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead from Strengths as Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beyond 2021, leaders are going to face unprecedented challenges and opportunities due to the pandemic and the new shifts it has brought. Adapting is important as you lead your engineering team through the new normal, or more accurately, the next normal. In order to address this convoluted and constantly changing business landscape, leaders are turning to strengths-based leadership. As engineering leaders, you should too.<\/p>\n

What is strengths-based leadership?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The phrase \u201cstrengths-based\u201d is a giveaway. Strengths-based leadership is a theory where, as a leader, you focus on the strengths of your organizational systems, resources, and people. You do not only focus on those strengths that are capitalized on, leveraged, and expedited, but also include those that are continuously being developed. Strengths-based leaders strategize to achieve efficiency, productivity, and success.<\/p>\n

Strengths-based leaders operate on the premise that growing the strengths in people is more potent than fixing their weaknesses. This, though, does not mean that weaknesses are condoned. A strengths-based approach is applied \u2013 whereby the focus is minimizing the unfavorable effects of weaknesses while building talent.<\/p>\n

According to an article published by Positive Psychology<\/span><\/a>, 20 years ago, a team of experts at Gallup conducted an extensive study and came up with 3 key strategies of successful leaders:<\/span><\/p>\n