Lynda ArtesaniLegal Accountant and Data Migration Specialist at The Proper Trust

What are you doing that you don't like doing?

23 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief motivational talk, the speaker advocates a strengths‑based approach to team management. The core practice is to ask each team member, at least twice a year, which tasks they dislike or tend to procrastinate on. The speaker argues that procrastination signals a mis‑fit between the task and the employee’s strengths. By reassigning those disliked tasks to colleagues who enjoy them, the organization frees its top performers—referred to as “A players”—to focus on work that aligns with their strengths. The speaker claims that when A players operate in strength‑aligned roles with clear results, their productivity can increase dramatically, by 900% to 1,200% compared to merely filling a position.

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Because we want people to work from their strengths. And, and we tell our team members, we're gonna ask you once a quarter, but at least twice a year, we're gonna ask you, what are you doing that you don't like doing? Yeah. And what are the things you're procrastinating on? And I have learned that when we procrastinate on something, it's because we're working outside our strengths. Mm-hmm. And so I wanna get that off of people's plate. We can find somebody else who loves doing that. Get it to them and let them exceed with it. And what we're doing— brilliant— freeing— we're freeing up our A players to work from their strengths. And when A players are in a role with clear results that align with their strengths, they will be 900% to 1,200% more productive than a warm body.