Getting things done: Every business needs skilled executers to achieve goals, reach targets, turn ideas into reality and drive your teams forward
Born achievers who work tirelessly to turn ideas into reality. People with skills in the executing strengths domain are vital for completing tasks, getting work done and achieving your goals. They’re the hard workers you turn to time and again to get things done and drive everyone else to perform.
And, fortunately, there’s a simple and effective way to identify the executers among us, and to develop them so you can deploy them for maximum effect in your business. And it’s called strengths.

Building on Clifton Strengths (formerly StrengthsFinder), strengths helps us understand what people have to offer – see what are strengths. It features 34 strengths (themes), divided into four strengths domains. And Executing is one of those domains. See all four and their individual strengths in our complete list of strengths.
Here, we introduce the Executing strengths domain, see what skilled executers bring to the table, discover the 9 specific strengths inside the domain and find out what kind of job types are best suited to people who execute. Plus: We show you how to find the executers in your company.

THE EXECUTING STRENGTHS DOMAIN
Your company needs – often above all else – to deliver. You need to get tasks done, drive production and work towards your goals. You need to keep your promises and, simply put, get the job done. That is what skilled executors do.
People with executing skills are task-focused, driven and able to work tirelessly toward a goal or target. They’re dependable and truly enjoy ticking things off the list, but also – very importantly – able to inspire and drive everyone else’s performance too.

WHAT PEOPLE WITH STRENGTHS IN EXECUTING BRING TO THE TABLE
Focus, speed, precision and dedication – your executers are the ones who make things happen. They relish in putting in the hard work right now, so they can move on to the next task quickly. They put thoughts and ideas into action. And you’re right to imagine these are your executives, but they’re also the achievers inside every team or unit that drive forward performance.
People with executing skills enjoy completing tasks. So they’ll often make lists and love ticking things off them. This means they’re extremely valuable in task-orientated and practical initiatives like production, budgets, processes, systems, timelines and targets etc.

THE 9 STRENGTHS IN THE EXECUTING STRENGTHS DOMAIN
1 Achiever
People with this skill love to work very hard and with a lot of stamina – they want to complete tasks and achieve goals. They’re usually at their happiest and most satisfied when they feel they’re being productive.
2 Arranger
This skill talks of an innate ability to organise resources to get the job done in the most effective way. They have the insight and flexibility to organise and re-arrange resources to maximise productivity.
3 Belief
People with this skill have a set of core values that are unshakable, allowing them to take responsibility, ensure ethics are maintained and to keep everyone on track.
4 Consistency
It’s all about fairness – they thrive on ensuring everyone is treated fairly, but also crave clear and stable procedures, rules and routines. Excellent for maintaining standards.
(Also see how vital it is for business performance to have real work clarity.)
5 Deliberative
This skill talks to being meticulous about the choices you make – analysing and understanding all the risks and potential obstacles before making a decision. They’re often able to spot potential threats and obstacles others might not have thought of.
6 Discipline
People with this skill instinctively seek out or create structure in their world – they perform best by creating order and predictability around them.
7 Focus
It’s all about taking direction and then staying on track no matter what – if you have a clear destination, nothing keeps you from your goal.
8 Responsibility
This skill talks to the need to follow through on commitments – people with this skill take psychological ownership of any promises they make and want to fulfil them.
9 Restorative
Born problem-solvers. People with this skill are energised by problems because they absolutely live to figure out a better way and solve them.

WHAT KIND OF JOBS DO YOU NEED EXECUTERS IN?
Now, you’re right in making the assumption that executers thrive in executive positions, but they are actually valuable at every level in your company, as linchpins in your teams. And you’ll find execution skills are quite broad: There are elements of being task-, goal- and detail-oriented.
According to Study.com, executers are good in organisational and admin roles, as well as supervisory roles in retail, event planning and support roles in the medical industry – nurses and anaesthetists.
Public responses on the dcurbanmom.com blog in America show people consider good roles to be in IT and programming, travel agencies, the production side of TVs and movies, and numerous jobs in medical care. BussinessInsider.com adds virtually all science-based jobs to the list, along with quality assurance and auditing. And graduate site GiveaGradaGo.com says we can’t leave sales and business development staff off the list.
In South Africa particularly, jobs portal Pnet.co.za lists plenty of sales, administrative, management, analytical, compliance, accounting, nursing, design and software development jobs for executers.

HOW TO IDENTIFY THE EXECUTERS IN YOUR COMPANY
We at LifeXchange live and breathe the help businesses achieve sustainable positive change for all stakeholders. And taking a strengths-based approach in your business is proven to benefit both your company and your people immensely. Studies show that focusing on strengths improves your employee engagement, lowering staff turnover by up to 72% and boosting customer engagement by 7% and profits by up to 29%.
So, we at LifeXchange help you implement strengths in your company. We come in and help you identify all your staff’s individual strengths, and then we help you make it part of your company’s systems and processes, so you can get the maximum benefit to everyone.

Read more about LifeXchange’s strengths-based development, or speak directly to us by phoning 071 918 3217 or contacting us here.
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