Lisa Cummings | Strengths Finder | Pinch Yourself Careers
Show Notes: Lisa Cummings
Today I welcome to the BRAND new you show Lisa Cummings founder of Pinch Yourself Careers.
As the Chief Strengths Sleuth, Lisa brings 20 years of experience in helping people find and leverage their strengths at work.
Her love for the strengths movement started in 2001 when she read Marcus Buckingham’s book, First, Break All The Rules. (Affiliate link)
Her key takeaway from the book was how leveraging your strengths at work will make you stronger while using your weaknesses makes you weaker. Yet for some reason the world seems obsessed with fixing what’s “broken” with people.
Since that realization, Lisa has focused her career on developing people. Now as a certified Strengths performance Lisa focuses on the potential in people and how it can be unleashed by using their strengths.
At Pinch yourself careers Lisa has integrated her Strengths Finder performance coaching certification into a process she uses with her coaching clients.
The process begins by taking the assessment. From there Lisa leads her clients through the heart of her process which she refers to as Name it, Claim it, and Aim it.
Name It - Identifying with your top 5 strengths. Understanding what they are and how they show up for you at work. This part of the process can usually take up to a couple of weeks of paying attention at work and identifying when you are using a strength.
Claim It - Once you can identify when you are using your strengths the next step is to fall in love with your strengths. This might sound a little weird but Lisa has
