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This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to know what you are good at.

Being able to name strengths and examples of these will boost your confidence and might come in handy for reviews or if you're job seeking.

So I recently heard about a job seeker who got an assignment from a career

transition course to ask several colleagues to identify her greatest professional strengths.

I know I would enjoy telling someone I liked and worked with where they shined, and I imagine

this woman's colleagues felt the same way.

And I imagine she enjoyed hearing these good things.

When she walked into interviews, she would have a ready list of strengths and examples that people told her of how she demonstrated them.

Most of us won't have a good excuse to ask people about our strengths so formally.

But still, people often tell us what we are good at if we listen.

By paying attention to compliments and not batting them off, we might be able to learn about

ourselves and present ourselves in a positive way in the future.

So, pay attention, take notes.

Maybe you give an important presentation, and a colleague comments that you are a great

presenter, or that you are unnatural at connecting with a crowd, or that you respond to questions well.

Write that down. Now you've got a strength, and an example of how you showed that strength.

Or perhaps after you coordinate a successful Halloween bazaar at your kid's school,

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