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Key Career Trait 59: TRANSPARENCY
THE TALENT TO CREATE TRUSTING CONNECTIONS FOR COLLABORATIONS With this energy active in your Design Blueprint Chart , it speaks to your...
Erica Hughey
Aug 254 min read
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Key Career Trait 7: STRATEGIC ADVISOR
THE TALENT TO LEAD OTHERS WITH CLEAR LOGICAL VISION If this trait is activated in your Design Chart , you are energetically hard wired to...
Erica Hughey
Aug 165 min read
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Key Career Trait 29: COMMITTMENT
THE TALENT TO ACHIEVE GOALS WITH DEDICATION AND PERSEVERANCE This trait is the proclivity to respond to a new initiative or project, say...
Erica Hughey
Aug 164 min read
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Key Career Trait 33: OVERSIGHT
THE TALENT TO DRAW WISDOM FROM EXPERIENCES Without the enriching storyteller Key Career Trait 56 or the mindful historian (33) every...
Erica Hughey
Aug 94 min read
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Key Career Trait 31: THE PRESIDENT
THE NATURAL TALENT TO LEAD OTHERS AS THE VOICE OF THE TEAM Some are executive leaders by default due to their legacy status and station...
Erica Hughey
Jul 284 min read
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Key Career Trait 56: ENRICHMENT
THE TALENT TO TELL ENGAGING STORIES WITHOUT HAVING ANYTHING TO PROVE This career trait helps the team by sharing ideas you believe and...
Erica Hughey
Jul 204 min read
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Key Career Trait 62: DETAIL ORIENTED
THE TALENT TO NOTICE DETAILS AND COMMUNICATE THEM WITH CLARITY This characteristic is the home of the hypothesis. Here lies logical...
Erica Hughey
Jul 174 min read
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Key Career Trait 53: EXPANSIVENESS
THE TALENT TO BEGIN ANEW, EMPOWERED AND WITH FORESIGHT Having an expansive nature, you are here to get the ball rolling and help your...
Erica Hughey
Jul 134 min read
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Key Career Trait 39: DYNAMISM
THE TALENT TO INSPIRE OTHERS THROUGH PROVOCATION Progress in the workplace environment requires dynamic provocation to spark clarity,...
Erica Hughey
Jul 44 min read
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Key Career Trait 52: PERSPECTIVE
This is restraint and the art of being still as a soft skill. The talent to stay focused in the long term and recognize what is...
Erica Hughey
Jun 294 min read
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Key Career Trait 15: SUSTAINABILITY
This inherent soft skill is all about having the ability adapt effortlessly to changes and having compassion as a talent. This is a...
Erica Hughey
Jun 204 min read
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Key Career Trait 12: SOCIAL IMPACT
This is the talent to be able to find the right words at the right time. Your ability to choose precise and moving words enables you to...
Erica Hughey
Jun 154 min read
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Key Career Trait 45: THE EXECUTIVE
This chief executive energy positions you as a natural authority with the purpose of protecting your team's financial and human resources...
Erica Hughey
Jun 104 min read
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Key Career Trait 35: PROGRESSIVE
This is the ability to gain new perspectives and bring about change quickly and efficiently. In your work environment, you consistently...
Erica Hughey
Jun 73 min read
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Key Career Trait 16: ENTHUSIASM
Do you have a degree or certification that you don’t use? Among a myriad of possible reasons, one has to consider the amount of...
Erica Hughey
Jun 24 min read
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Key Career Trait 20: SELF-ASSUREDNESS
Imagine the chaos that would ensue if a queen bee began behaving like a drone bee or if a drone bee decided they wanted to pursue worker...
Erica Hughey
May 264 min read
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Key Career Trait 8: CHANGE AGENT
Do you find yourself thinking, "I know I can contribute to..."? That is the inherent energy of being a contributor, a change agent....
Erica Hughey
May 183 min read
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Key Career Trait 23: THE TRANSLATOR
Professionals who develop Key Career Trait 23 have the potential to thrive in roles where they can leverage their analytical abilities,...
Erica Hughey
May 113 min read
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Key Career Trait 2: THE DIRECTOR
Key Career Trait 2 is all about leveraging the gift of recognizing the true direction for people, projects, or companies, and guiding...
Erica Hughey
May 54 min read
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Key Career Trait 24: THE THINKER
You don't know what you don't know, and that's ok.
Erica Hughey
Apr 303 min read
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