Nothing that I haven't seen before, but worded in a different way that might help. ( )

Marcus Buckingham is great at putting a life-transforming concept into a simple, doable package with zing.

In his latest offering, The Truth About You, he returns to his core message: Learn Your Strengths. In the package is a 20 minute DVD, a book, and a memo pad. The DVD is a well produced film that dynamically drives home both the importance and the process of learning your strengths and then having the courage to order your life by them. Buckingham is an arresting speaker and he is in top form in the video.

The Truth About You book is a short read but is one you’ll take plenty of notes on which reinforces the film’s message about strengths, describes Buckingham’s model of finding strengths, and has several chapters on how to practically apply a knowledge of your strengths to your work environment.

The last part of the package is a little memo pad to record your strengths. Basically, Buckingham tells you to take the memo pad with you wherever you go for a week and jot down activities that you feel strong doing, and then use that as the basis for defining your own key strengths. Even though I had done a lot of work in the past few years at identifying my strengths, I actually found the exercise to be enlightening and empowering.

I really liked this package. It would be useful for anyone from teens trying to gain direction as to career choice to the person dissatisfied in their current job and wanting to get a better “fit” to the person wanting to really optimize his joy & his performance in a position that is already a good fit. My only criticism is the inflated price: if the publisher had simply marketed a paperback book and then linked to a website video it could have been much more affordable. ( )