Rachel Lockett

When people are in their gifts and their strengths, they have more energy. We all have more energy when we're operating from the things we naturally are good at. It's no one else's job to help you live in your gifts. Your manager's job is to help you perform in the job you are hired to do. It's your job to navigate your career.

Take two weeks and every night reflect on, what are the five things today that gave me the most energy? And what are the five things that depleted my energy the most? If you do that for two weeks and you look at patterns, you can tell, what are the natural gifts that I'm living in?

My litmus test is 80%, that's the goal. You're always going to have 20% of things you don't love doing. But if you're 80% of the time in your gifts, how much energy you have to give to the world.

The goal of any conflict is to create mutual understanding.

There is always something that we're doing to contribute to the conflict, even if it feels like the other person is insane, and is driving us crazy, and we're the innocent party.

Would you enthusiastically rehire this person for the same role?