424: Craft a Career to Fit Your Strengths, with Scott Anthony Barlow

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Scott Anthony Barlow: Happen to Your Career

Scott Anthony Barlow is the founder of Happen to Your Career. He’s been featured on CNBC, Yahoo, CareerBuilder, Fast Company, and Huffington Post and various colleges and universities as a top expert on career happiness. He’s held executive roles in human resources, business development, and career coaching.

Scott is the host of the Happen to Your Career podcast, featuring the career stories of many successful professionals. He and his team have worked with over 25,000 people to help them stop settling, find their signature strengths, and start doing meaningful work they are enamored with.

Key Points

Many people frame career choices only as, “Should I take this offer or not?” or, “Should I quit this job and go and get another?”
Skills are not necessarily strengths. People who are successful and happier are spending more time in their strengths.
The CliftonStrengths (formerly StrengthsFinder) assessment is a useful tool for getting clarity.
Change to a role/company that allows you spend more time in your strengths or decide to design your career from the inside.
Stop pursuing marginal improvements of your weaknesses.

Resources Mentioned

The Ultimate Guide to Using Your Strengths to Get Hired*
8-Day Video Course to Figuring Out What You Love
StrengthsFinder training for individuals and teams* (use code CFL10 for a 10% tuition discount)

Related Episodes

How to Figure Out Your Career, with Scott Anthony Barlow (episode 259)
How Teams Use StrengthsFinder Results, with Lisa Cummings (episode 293)
Move From Caretaker to Rainmaker, with May Busch (episode 390)

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0:00.0	A lot of people frame career decisions around should I take this offer or not or should I quit this job and go get another.
0:08.0	In this episode, we'll challenge you to do what the happy high achievers do, which is to move beyond those questions and instead design
0:16.1	your career around your signature strengths.
0:19.3	This is Coaching for Leaders episode 424. Produced by Innovate Learn. Leaders, Episode 424.
0:23.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:30.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahophiac. Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations.
0:49.0	Leaders are, of course, thinking about careers often. We are thinking about the careers of the people
0:56.2	that we have the privilege to influence and mentor and coach, and of course we're thinking
1:00.6	about our own careers as well and one of the big hopes I have for
1:06.2	everyone in our listening community is that we would align our career as much as
1:11.9	we possibly can with our strengths. our just brilliant at helping people to find the careers that work for them and to
1:25.1	help align those careers to their strengths. I'm glad to welcome back. Scott
1:29.7	Anthony Barlow, he is the founder of Happen to Your Career. He's been featured on
1:34.6	CNBC, Yahoo, Career Builder, Fast Company, and the Huffington Post, and various
1:40.2	colleges and universities as a top expert on career happiness.
1:44.0	Scott has held roles in executive management in human resources, business development, and career coaching.
1:50.0	He is the host of the Happen to Your Career Podcast featuring the career stories of many successful
1:55.8	professionals. Scott and his team have worked with over 25,000 people to help them stop settling,
2:01.6	find their signature strengths, and start doing meaningful work
2:04.8	that they're enamored with.
2:06.3	And Scott has been a long-time partner of coaching for leaders and many people in our community.
2:11.4	Scott have utilized your resources.
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