It is important to know how effective and efficient you are with your time. Once you discover your time management style, the next step is to understand the challenges associated with your strength and how they can be refined to encourage productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness. There is a strong correlation between StrengthsFinder and time management styles.
There are 5 main styles of Time Management:
The Surgeon
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- Strengths: The Surgeon is a detail-oriented perfectionistic. They are very capable, reliable & do high quality work.
- Challenges: They slow down or don’t finish projects because of this perfectionistic tendency.
- Solution: Let go of perfection and seek excellence.
The Firefighter
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- Strengths: The Firefighter excels at crisis management. They are great under pressure and love problem-solving.
- Challenges: If they treat all projects as urgent, it may delay them in completing important things. The focus is always on the fire ahead.
- Solution: Prioritize time. Limit the time to what’s needed to complete their top 3-5 work activities.
The Ambassador
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- Strengths: The Ambassador is a high achiever. They are go-getters and they want to impress those around them.
- Challenges: They work so much that they are not focused on people, self-care, or other important tasks of business-building. Ultimately, they burn out.
- Solution: Learn how to delegate to others. They must find the right talent and the right people to free up time for them to focus on more important projects.
The Social Butterfly
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- Strengths: The Social Butterfly is a conversational person. They’re skilled at communication, love to connect with others, and are great collaborators.
- Challenges: They are easily distracted by other people. They have fun, but fun is not everything.
- Solution: Dump the distractions. Social Butterflies should go where they can be alone. That way they can focus and decrease the distractions around them.
The Surfer
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- Strengths: The Surfer is a procrastinator. They are great at researching, learning, and googling. They crave information and are constantly adding more ideas to their toolbox.
- Challenges: They end up never finishing the big project because they’re chasing something else that is more exciting in the moment.
- Solution: Put off procrastination. Learn how to schedule tasks that are important. Learn how to set small deadlines and do the most important project first.
One thing to note about the 34 different Strengths is that some of them will help you speed up like an accelerator, and some will slow you down. Learning how to regulate your strengths will help you be more productive and efficient with your time.
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