Kahler Drivers: When Your Strengths Become Your Weaknesses

Last Friday for a new podcast that will be launched in a few days (stay tuned 👀), I discussed with Margot De Wilder about the Kahler drivers and highlighted my main ones.

This theory by Taibi Kahler highlights 5 drivers of motivation that can either be beneficial or can lead to dysfunctions when overused : Indeed, our strengths can become our weaknesses when not correctly acknowledged or managed 📈📉

These 5 drivers are 👇

• Please Others
• Be Strong
• Hurry Up
• Try Hard
• Be Perfect

Identifying mine helped me understand why some activities are giving me so much energy and enthusiasm, what can impact the quality of my work, and what can become a pitfall at some point. Concretely, in a nutshell :

👉 𝗕𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 : I get things done and I don't get into emotional situations, but in stress I tend to hide my emotions and I don't ask for help
👉 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 : I'm a team player and comfortable working with people, but I can't say no

This exercise is very useful, either on a personal level or as a team, to understand how each other works !

There a plenty of online questionnaires to identify your own drivers, so give it a try !