Rachel Lockett

You must take personal responsibility for steering your career toward your strengths rather than expecting management to design a fulfilling role for you.

"It's no one else's job to help you live in your gifts. What I notice in big companies is people are often annoyed or frustrated with their management for not making their job more interesting. No, you..."

Aligning your daily work with your natural strengths is the most effective way to sustain high energy and prevent long-term burnout.

"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."

Solving every problem for your team creates a dependency that prevents them from developing the autonomy and skills needed to tackle challenges independently.

"But great leaders know that when you try to advise and have the answer all the time, you're not actually equipping your team to go solve the hard problems. You're training your team to come to you wit..."

Conflict resolution should focus on achieving mutual understanding rather than proving one side right or wrong.

"There's a misguided view that the goal is to convince the other person that what they're doing is wrong. Actually, the goal of any conflict is to create mutual understanding."