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# Find the hidden strength before they see it.

A coaching framework for leaders who want to surface strengths their team members don't yet recognize in themselves.

- A three-question check built around the passion question
- Three actions for this week, from naming a strength to resisting the urge to jump in
- A quick-reference page you can pin up

## Get the free guide

The Magnifying Glass Method · 8 pages · PDF

Trusted by **800+ organizations** across **25+ industries** since 2009

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Find the hidden strength before they see it.

The Magnifying Glass Method

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## What's inside

### Uncovering a strength nobody has named yet

How Jenny Gattari became the connector who spots strengths in people before they see them, and why she almost turned down her favorite job.

### The habits behind it

How to use a simple debrief question, separate a strength from a job title, and give an assignment when feedback doesn't land.

### Ask the passion question

Three reflection questions on how you debrief, when you take over, and which strengths you see that your team can't.

### This week

Three concrete actions, a stop-doing habit, and a quick-reference page for the method.

[Get the guide](https://coaching.velocityadvisorygroup.com/leadership-library/magnifying-glass-method#get-it)

## Results and feedback from Velocity's leadership work

**30% to 8%**employee turnover in one yearBiopharmaceutical company

**+126%**strategic alignment liftBiopharmaceutical company

**95%**retention rate in a construction leadership programVelocity client

> “Now associates understand themselves better, and leaders have new tools to support their teams.”

Chief People and Culture Officer, healthcare products distributor

> “Velocity challenged our team and brought us together in ways that have paid immediate dividends.”

Managing Partner, accounting and advisory firm

## Why strengths stay hidden

The strengths people dismiss are often the ones that come most naturally to them.

### Reviewing Output Only

Debriefs focus on what got done, not what someone loved doing, so the clue to an untapped strength never surfaces.

### Strengths Tied to Titles

When a strength is treated as part of a job description rather than part of someone's DNA, it gets missed whenever the role doesn't call for it.

### Leaders Who Jump In

Stepping in to fix things takes away the chance for people to work through a challenge and discover what they're good at.

## From insight to habit

Spotting a hidden strength only matters when the person sees it too and gets the chance to use it.

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### ASK

Make "What did you love most about this project?" a standard part of every debrief, and listen for the passion in the answer.

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Tell people specifically what you've observed, or turn the strength into a stretch assignment when feedback alone doesn't land.

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### COACH

Velocity's coaching and leadership development help leaders build the self-awareness and listening habits that make this method stick across a team.

**In Jenny Gattari's words:** "It's helping put the magnifying glass on what they may be good at, and how you uncover that typically is the passion."

### Who this is for

- Managers who run project debriefs
- Leaders developing future leaders
- Team leads who tend to jump in and fix things
- HR and talent leaders focused on growing people internally

## Help your team see what you already see

Download the guide, then talk with us about building a coaching habit across your leadership team.

[Get the guide](https://coaching.velocityadvisorygroup.com/leadership-library/magnifying-glass-method#get-it)

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