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title: What am I great at?
description: I was challenged in a conversation to say what am I great at. This is my list of those qualities that I feel I can rely upon to really help my clients
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# [What am I great at?](https://thebigbluebox.co.uk/leave-it-better/about/what-am-i-great-at)

 Written by [Chris Dyson](https://thebigbluebox.co.uk/leave-it-better/author/chris-dyson) | 2024/10/21

I was challenged, in a good-natured conversation, to define **what I am great at**.

These are my thoughts.

 

#### Purpose

I feel I have a strong sense of values and purpose, always aiming ‘**to leave it better**’ in everything I do.

‘Don’t fence me in’ — I value freedom and flexibility in how I approach challenges and solutions.

 

#### Emotional Intelligence

I consider one of my strengths to be my emotional intelligence — my **self-awareness **is the foundation that** **enables my** awareness of others. **

I also trust my **intuition** to guide me, especially when it comes to **sensitivity** in understanding others.

What I believe makes me useful as a coach and mentor, is where I can use these skills to help others see that their own **answers are often hidden in plain sight**.

 

#### Listening

Listening is at the heart of how I operate as I bring genuine curiosity and interest to my interactions with coachees and mentees.

 

#### **Creating**

My value is in **collating, synthesizing, and creating** - bringing together different pieces of information, creating understanding, and sparking **creativity** by using my **facilitation **skills** **to help coachees and mentees resolve their problems effectively.

My approach is often **breadth over depth**, stretching to connect concepts from different areas, to broaden others’ perspectives and in so doing, helping them to grow.

 

#### **Guidance**

Recognising the stress-inducing impact of uncompleted actions, unresolved decisions, or conflicting priorities on my own capacity and quality of decision-making, I aim to guide people through the challenges of their uncertainty or overwhelm with clarity and focus.

 

#### Decision making

My decision-making is grounded in balance and pragmatism which I recognise can tend towards perfectionism, but ‘reality’ and the pace of change require a pragmatic approach —sometimes ‘**good enough is good enough**!’ My focus is always on getting things to work efficiently and effectively.

 

#### Resilience

In terms of making things happen, I feel experience has shown that I respond appropriately to a given situation, being **strategic**, action-oriented, and **agile**. I pride myself on my **resilience** and my ability to **see tasks through** to a conclusion. I aim to deliver appropriate outcomes, whilst remaining **trusted, flexible**, and **capable** in my role.

 

#### Agility

Agility is important to me — so I find it natural to explore new ideas, experiment and push the boundaries. For me, trying new things is about excitement - perhaps being ‘edgy’, not about being fearful. I am open to what’s new, constantly evolving my approach and always learning as a result.

 

#### **Enabling Others**

Finally, I find it hugely rewarding to **enable others**. Whether through **coaching and mentoring, **facilitating my **peer advisory groups**, or supporting other coaches and mentors through **supervision**, I enjoy helping people work through their challenges and achieve their goals. Seeing others succeed is very fulfilling, I work to create an environment in which people thrive.

 

If you are interested to prepare your own version of this, please message me. I can share the process, and work through it with you, if you think it might be helpful.

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