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My Fascination Advantage® Is The Veiled Strength – What’s Yours? [free assessment]

Do you know what makes you fascinating? What draws people to you and differentiates you from others in your profession or industry?

How To Fascinate Graphic

[Want to know how you “fascinate” the world? Read to the bottom of this post and get your code to take a free assessment!]

As a self-proclaimed “Assessment Junkie”, I love the idea of answering a few questions, and within just a few minutes, being presented with a multi-page report that gives me all of the answers I’ve ever wanted to know about myself.

Well, not exactly.

But I do enjoy taking assessments to find new and different ways to understand how I best communicate with the world and where I can add the most value.

That’s why I was intrigued when I first heard Sally Hogshead talk about her new book and the research behind How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination on a recent podcast with Brian Kelly called What The Speak.

Since I’m currently doing some work to clarify my brand and product/service offerings, I bought Sally’s book and read it over the July 4th holiday weekend. I also took the related Fascination Advantage® Assessment, which is billed as the first personality assessment developed based upon the science of branding, rather than psychology. Unlike traditional tests (Meyers-Briggs or StrengthsFinder) this assessment doesn’t measure how you see the world, it measures how the world sees you.

Interesting.

So I took the assessment and was intrigued by the results. I like the detail in the 16-page report, the information shared about all 49 Archetypes, and the explanatory videos that were included as part of the assessment results.

By the way, my Archetype is called “The Veiled Strength” and below is a snapshot of my primary, secondary and dormant advantages, as well as 3 words that others might use to describe me.

Pretty interesting stuff.

At A Glance Fascination Advantage

 

Want to understand more about how others see you and how you can discover your highest value?

Great!

I’ve got a free code for the 5-minute assessment (normally $37) for the first 100 (update: now 500) people that use it. Just go to HowToFascinate.com/YOU and enter [BL-jmcclure] minus the brackets in the Book Code box.

After you’ve had a chance to review your report and take it all in, please take a moment to briefly share your Archetype and what you think about your results with me in the Comments section. I’d love to hear from at least one person for each Archetype!

If you’re interested in learning more about the Fascination Advantage® and how you can create your own Anthem using the information, share it with your clients and colleagues and even use it to improve the work of your team, be sure to get Sally Hogshead’s new book How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination.

I really enjoyed it, and I think you will too!

Categories: Blog, Book Reviews, Career Development, Personal Branding
Posted on July 9, 2014

Written by Jennifer McClure

Book Review: Find Your Strongest Life by Marcus Buckingham

Marcus Buckingham I’ll admit it. I’ve totally drunk the kool-aid when it comes to the Strengths-based Leadership movement. I’ve bought Now, Discover Your Strengths, GO Put Your Strengths to Work, StrengthsFinder 2.0 and Strengths-Based Leadership. As a self-described Assessment Junkie, I love the instant gratification of taking the online assessments with each book and not only do I scratch my head at how accurate they can be, I’ve found new and helpful ways to apply the information from each book and assessment to my work and personal life. So it was a given that I’d be interested in checking out the latest book from Marcus Buckingham – Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently. Another assessment? Count me in. A book directly to a woman-only audience? Call me dubious…

Before starting the book, I wondered why it would be directed only at women. Can’t we all benefit from finding our Strongest Life? Using his background as a Researcher, Buckingham uses data to quickly bring into focus why primarily women can benefit from the principals discussed within.

“All told, more than 1.3 million men and women have been surveyed over the last thirty years, both here in the U.S. and in developed countries around the world. Wherever researchers have been able to collect reliable data on happiness, the finding is always the same: greater educational, political, and employment opportunities have corresponded to decreases in life happiness for women, as compared to men.”

Wow. Bummer. Thankfully, the book does a nice job of providing some guidance and a framework for women to beat the odds and ensure that the work-life choices they’re presented with and the success achieved (or lack thereof) won’t send them down a negative trend line. Some key takeaways for me included the discussion around the 4 Emotions of a Strong Life, as well as identifying and saying “Yes” to “strong-moments” in your life versus thinking we need to say “No” more often. Buckingham encourages striving for imbalance in your life (focusing more on areas where you’re at your best) versus seeking balance – everything at a standstill – which is impractical.

Of course, I love the Strong Life Test for Women that’s explained further in the book (embedded below for you to take – and it won’t kick you out if you’re a Dude). The Strong Life Test is described as different from the previous Strengths Finder Tests – revealing your Lead Role (and Supporting Role) – which is your “soul’s code” versus pulling out your top talents or strengths. I found the information shared pertaining to my personal Lead Role (Influencer) helpful and I’ll be seeking out more of the types of opportunities outlined in the book where I can make the most of my role in the future.

I also plan to follow the instructions to capture some of my Strong Moments over the next couple of weeks and will see where that takes me. I really enjoyed the book and think the examples shared, as well as the tools presented will be helpful to me as I continue to pursue living my Strongest Life.

My Recommendation: Read it!

 

Disclosure: I recently signed up to become a Thomas Nelson Book Review Blogger – in part because I admire and learn from Thomas Nelson’s CEO Michael Hyatt and also because I want to re-develop a habit of reading good books. So periodically, you’ll find a book review here at Cincy Recruiter’s World and I’ll add this Disclosure to each book reviewed as a part of that program. It’s important to note that while I’m provided books through the program at no cost, they’ll be books that I’ve chosen to receive based upon my interests and although the program has guidelines as far as posting dates and format, I’m not required to write a positive review – only to share my objective opinions.

Categories: Blog, Book Reviews, Executive Coaching
Posted on October 5, 2009

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