It can be difficult for busy, hard-charging leaders and professionals to accept the importance of incorporating quiet time into your day. As a Quiet Works Certified Coach, I found myself feeling more productive, focused, and less drained by the end of the work day when I simply became more intentional about scheduling quiet time in the following areas in the context of running my own business:
For additional information on the rationale for quiet time and how to implement it, see Joseph McCormack’s book Quiet Works: Making Silence the Secret Ingredient of the Workplace.
As a Strengths Champion Certified Coach®, I recently took this concept of quiet time a step further by considering how to use it in ways that play to people’s strengths. I like to think of it as where Quiet Works meets Clifton Strengths®. Here are some ideas for how to use quiet time, broken down by each of the four Clifton Strengths® domains:
Influencing:
Strategic Thinking:
Executing:
Relationship building:
How might you incorporate quiet time into your day in a way that plays to your strengths?
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