There is also a Strong Life Test for Women to help you determine the roles you were created to play.

According to the results, my lead role is an INFLUENCER. I begin by asking: ‘How can I move you to act?’ My supporting role is CREATOR where I then ask: ‘What do I understand?’ Hmmm, interesting stuff…of course I am now hooked on learning more of the detail behind these roles.

You can download a free chapter of Marcus Buckingham’s Find Your Strongest Life book by logging into Oprah.com. In Chapter 5 of Find Your Strongest Life, Marcus Buckingham shares the stories of two women: Anna, who is happy, successful and fulfilled; and Charlie, who feels none of those things. Anna’s distinct approach to life strengthens her, while a flawed approach has led Charlie astray.

Read Find Your Strongest Life and discover:

• How to make the most of the role you were born to play
• How to get others to understand who you really are
• The successful strategies of other women like you

A strength is something that completes you. A weakness is something that depletes you.

You can take the workshop that Marcus Buckingham offers for free via Oprah’s website. For your convenience a quick summary of the Marcus Buckingham workshop materials are also listed below:

• Syllabus – This details what you will need to do before you take the workshop as well as the activities you will complete in each session.
• Green Cards – You’ll use the green cards to write down all of the times when you loved a task or felt strong during the course of a week.
• Red Cards – You’ll use the red cards to write down all of the items you loathed a task or felt weak (drained or bored) during the course of a week.
• Strength Statement – In Session 6, you’ll create a strength statement for each of the things you wrote down on the green cards.
• Weakness Statement – In Session 7, you’ll create a weakness statement for each of the things you wrote down on the red cards.
• Strong Week Plan – In Session 8, you’ll create a plan with key outcomes, activities needed to meet those outcomes and strategies to leverage your strengths and minimize your weaknesses for a strong week.