Your Business Needs Balance… You Don’t Have to Provide It All
- Brooke Terrell
- 4 days ago
- 2 min read
When you lead a team, it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing you should be good at everything. Strategic thinking, relationship building, execution, and influencing, oh my!
Gallup’s CliftonStrengths domains outline the range of strengths. But here’s the truth:
Your business should have balanced strengths.
You don’t have to.
Start with self-awareness.
What are the strengths you naturally lead with?
Do you find yourself gravitating toward ideas, strategy, and planning (Strategic Thinking)?
Are you energized by building connections and trust (Relationship Building)?
Do you thrive on structure, follow-through, and making things happen (Executing)?
Or are you the voice that rallies others and gets people on board (Influencing)
Wherever you land, it’s not a flaw. It’s insight.
Remember: Great leaders don’t do it all
They recognize where they shine and intentionally surround themselves with people who shine in other spaces. A balanced team doesn’t mean balanced individuals, it means each person contributes their best and trusts others to fill the gaps.
From insight to action.
You can start simply: map out where each person on your team brings energy and strengths.
Then ask:
What’s being over-relied on right now?
What’s underutilized?
Where might we need to bring in a different perspective?
If you want to go deeper, this is where our 45° Strengths Program comes in. We take the guesswork out of identifying, mapping, and applying your team’s unique strengths. Through individual coaching and team sessions, we help you move from “interesting insights” to practical changes in how you collaborate, lead, and grow.
The goal isn’t to cover every domain yourself. The goal is to create an environment where complementary strengths add up to more than the sum of their parts.
You weren’t meant to do it all.
You were meant to lead from your strengths and let others do the same.
Conversation Starter: What strengths do you naturally bring and what gaps have you learned to trust others with? Reflect for yourself or bring this question to your team and see what balance could unlock.
Want to take it further? Comment here or email brooke@45degrees.org to explore our 45° Strengths Program to see how your team can turn insight into action.