Finding Your Lost Strength - The Story of the Missing Woo

Woo is one of the CliftonStrengths.

Woo stands for winning others over. Those with Woo love the game of meeting new people and winning them over. They are natural at breaking the ice and making a connection, building rapport, and creating connections between others. Their outgoing charm and interest in others gain buy-in reduce barriers and close deals. They come across as happy-go-lucky and little dampens their optimism. Woo appears in just over 13% of the national database.

📍 Okay. It's Friday afternoon. I just got off a coaching session that I have to tell the story. I work with the Clifton strengths and I've actually worked with over 16,000 people in unpacking their strengths every now and then someone gets stuck. They've got a strength. They say that's just not me.

📍 And so today someone said, I don't get the woo that stands for winning others over now. Woo is charming. It's persuasive. It makes you feel comfortable. It warms up the room, loves to get on stage. All of those. And I've known this person for several years and I would have to say that their persona doesn't seem to indicate much Woo in it.

📍 So we go into life history two threads came through one. This person is a third-culture kid. And also the environments and the role she's had, don't seem to fit the norm.

She's a little bit on the outside. One of the things that could explain a dampening of that outgoing effervescent personality is that being uncertain of how to fit in, in the rules, because you're in so many environments that are not natural. So we were talking about the characteristics of Woo. And one of the things I asked, I said, do you like karaoke?

Because in my imagination and people I've seen people who are willing to do that on purpose to get up a new karaoke, tend to have that fearlessness of getting in front of people and just having a good time and letting it loose. Guess what she said? She loves karaoke. She did it at her. She looks for the opportunity almost anywhere she can.

And I said, oh my gosh, that is winning others over. That's the strength. Now we have to piece back the puzzle. So here's part of the process of regaining something that's naturally yours by birthright that you have neglected, or that has gotten stifled over. First, we have to find out where's the pulse.

So we looked at several traits in winning others over, and this person's going to go back and begin to look at where is there a trace element, a pulse. We're going to look at peak moments, why karaoke to see what it really looks and feels like. So she's got a mental image of what it looks like..

At her best and where she's feeling the energy of it. And now the third part is beginning to put together some opportunities to practice. So do you have a strength that you feel you don't identify within the Clifton strengths? If so, come over. Let's try it out. Let's figure out what is holding it back.

This person is only one of dozens of individuals I've seen similar, a key that unlocks that hidden strength that has been locked up in this chamber. And we had a great ending to the session and the ending was that there's this little karaoke place that this person knows. With a live band, they're going to invite me.

And I said, I don't have Woo anywhere near my top five, getting up and doing karaoke would be the last thing on earth I would choose to do well when her Woo gets fully backed, I'm going to have to do karaoke with her.

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00:00 Introduction
00:23 Story
01:41 Characteristics Of Woo

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