Q3: At work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day.
Know Me: The most powerful benefit a manager can provide employees is to place them in roles that allow them to apply the best of their natural selves—their talents—as well as their skills and knowledge every day.
Managers, try this now: Set employees up for success. Organize tasks and activities based on each employee’s talents and strengths.
Action Tool: Engaging Conversations: Opportunity to do Best
The team’s ability to achieve excellence and get the most out of each team member’s natural talents is connected to the extent to which the manager and team understand, appreciate, and start to use this information in a meaningful way.
Asking the following questions can help ensure that everyone understands and appreciates how each person contributes to the team’s success:
- What do you do best in your role?
- What do you enjoy most about the work you get to do every day?
- What aspects of your work do you think you do really well?
- What do you look forward to doing at work each day?
- Are there things that keep you or distract you from being as productive as you expect to be?
- Are there parts of your role you find difficult?
- What do you enjoy the most about your work? Which parts of your current job bring you the most satisfaction or greatest sense of accomplishment?
- What could I do to make it easier for you to do what you do best every day?
- How do you use your team members’ strengths to accomplish goals?
Originally produced by Gallup. Adapted with permission.
More Q3 resources
Outstanding performance is a result of each person knowing what
he or she does best and having the opportunity to do it in a role every day.”
- Gallup
Help Employees Use their Strengths
Name it! Help each person gain awareness of and keep in mind their individual talents and strengths.
Claim it! Help each team member appreciate the value and opportunities their talents and strengths offer.
Aim it! Help each team member intentionally invest in the development of his or her talents and strengths.
