Elaina Davis is the Chief Community Officer in her new role (at the time of this recording) at a senior living consulting firm, primarily serving the Richmond, VA market.

In this special episode of Level Up Leadership Podcast, I had the opportunity to get into the coach's seat with Elaina in the learner's seat.

We reflected on Elaina's learning journey of where and how she learned the skills to equip her to lead others today. More simply, how we do acquire the skills to make the transition from an individual performer into a leader of others who perform?

Few organizations have formal or informal coaching structures to teach, mentor, and grow people beyond a "supervisory" or "task completion" de facto management relationship.

In this episode, Elaina and I dug into areas such as:

• Evaluating one's own strengths
• Having the right environment that is conducive to your learning and development
• An insight that our weaknesses are actually our strengths overdone
• The concept of aligning strengths to job responsibilities and outsourcing or delegating those responsibilities we're not well suited to execute
• The value of focusing on strengths more than we focus on our weaknesses

We delved into many universal themes of self-growth and strengths and weaknesses, and we hope that you take your own nuggets of wisdom away from our conversation together.