Play to your Strengths by CTR

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PLAY TO YOUR STRENGTHS.


WELCOME.


WORKSHOP GOALS.

Build a stronger teamwork effort within our organization. Build and sustain effective work relationships. This workshop is designed to build awareness of individual talents and strengths and to leverage them to strengthen OUR TEAM.

WORKSHOP AGENDA.

•  Relationship Between Talents and Strengths

•  Clifton StrengthsFinder®

Assessment

•  34 Talent Themes

•  Four Leadership Domains

•  Understanding and Leveraging Team Member Strengths

•  Benefits and Challenges of High Performing Teams


Strengths Finder 2.0 is an effort to get the core message and language of its predecessor to a broader audience. The book surveys hundreds of respondents and condenses these responses to 34 themes or key areas that can easily be translated into ideas and action. This book helps readers apply their newly found strengths to any type of role, and gives them ideas to help them apply their talents in their daily life, no matter what kind of work they have and what their interests are.

DON O. CLIFTON, PH.D.

•  Known as “Father of Strengths Psychology”

•  Wondered what makes people successful - not what makes

them fail

•  50 years systematically studying excellence

•  2 million+ high-performance achievers

•  Asked open-ended questions

•  1988-1992 – SRI purchases Gallup

•  1998 – Marcus Buckingham


CLIFTON STRENGTHSFINDER®

§  Identified 34 prevalent talent themes

§  More than 33 million potential combinations

§  Positive language to describe: - How we think - Why we behave in certain ways

- What’s great about us!

FIND YOUR STRENGTHS. Successful people understand their talents and strengths and build their lives upon them. Successful organizations don’t just accommodate differences in employees, they capitalize on them.

WHAT IS STRENGTHS-BASED LEADERSHIP

Emerging from the field of social work, it is a set of ideas, assumptions, and techniques: 1.  People are active participants

in the helping process (empowerment)

2.  All people have strengths, often

untapped or unrecognized

3.  Strengths foster motivation for growth

4.  Strengths are internal and environmental


STRENGTHS-BASED PERFORMING TEAMS Nearly a decade ago, Gallup unveiled the results of a landmark 30-year research project that ignited a global conversation on the topic of strengths. More than 3 million people have since taken Gallup's StrengthsFinder assessment, which forms the core of several books on this topic, including the #1 international bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0.


GALLUP RESEARCH.

Gallup studied more than one million work teams, conducted more than 20,000 in-depth interviews with leaders, and even interviewed more than 10,000 followers around the world to ask exactly why they followed the most important leader in their life.


KNOWING OUR STRENGTHS.

“Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong…..And yet, a person can perform only from strength.” Business Guru, Peter Drucker (1909-2005)

WHAT ARE STRENGTHS?

§  Talents§ Skills§ Knowledge§ Interests§ Dreams/Hopes/Goals§ Crea:vity§ Culture§ Passion§ Connec:ons


TALENTS AND STRENGTHS. Talent Naturally recurring pattern of thought, feeling or behavior that can be productively applied Strength = Talent + Use + Skills + Knowledge Strength Consistent, near perfect performance in an activity you love doing


LET’S GET TO KNOW YOU AND YOUR STRENGTHS.


TEAM STRENGTH.


Talent is your natural way of thinking, feeling or behaving, and investment is the time spent on developing your skills and building your knowledge base. The more you invest on your talent, the more you are able to harness your strength, providing consistent performance to achieve success each time.

TALENT x INVESTMENT = STRENGTH

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Achiever Activator

Adaptability

Analytical

Arranger

Belief

Command

Communication

Competition

Connectedness

Context

Deliberative Developer

Discipline

Empathy

Focus

Futuristic

Harmony

Ideation

Includer

Individualization

Input

Intellection

Learner

Maximizer

Positivity

Relator

Responsibility

Restorative

Self-Assurance

Significance

Strategic

Woo


You are a driven person who constantly needs achievement whether they are small tasks in a day or big projects and achievements that are attained in the long term. Achievers need to live with constant discontent, often wanting to do and strive for more. They have the energy to work long hours without burning out, and are always on the look out for new challenges and conquests.

1: Achiever


You are impatient for action. Once decisions are made and plans are mapped out, Activators are often quick to take on tasks and responsibilities, believing that action is the best device for learning. Activators make the best momentum for any company or team.

2: Activator


You are adaptable and live in the moment. While you may not have a fixed idea of what the future holds for you, you craft your future out of the choices you make right now. You are a very flexible person who can stay productive when the demands of work are pulling you in many different directions all at once. You are not shaken by changes and the unexpected.

3: Adaptability


You intimidate other people easily, seeking things to be proven first before following them. While you don’t necessarily want to destroy other people’s ideas, you often insist that their ideas be sound and safe. You often see yourself as an objective person, often wanting to get into the root of things.

4: Analytical


Faced with a complex situation, you enjoy managing all the variables involved until you arrive at the most productive configuration possible. You are able to take a lot in without being frustrated by it. You aren’t afraid of chaotic circumstances, and you are not afraid to confront the bull by the horns, taking charge of the situation while others sit back and take refuge in rules and procedures.

5: Arranger


You have specific core values that are enduring. Whatever personal beliefs you hold, you consistently hold out for things that are altruistic, spiritual and ethical, and look for these in everything you do. You often look for meaning in what you do, and remind people of the reason and purpose of their work and responsibilities.

6: Belief


You like to take charge. You have no qualms imposing your view on others, and compel them to think and act the same way as you. You push others to take risks and confront complex situations no matter how unpleasant they are. People are often drawn towards you and trust the decisions you make for them.

7: Command


You are best at handling things dealing with communication: you like to explain, to describe, to host, to speak in public, and to write. You are creative and you express ideas well. At the very core of this talent is an intrinsic ability to keep people interested, and to seek and generate new information with each and every task.

8: Communication


You always compare yourself to others. You have a means of determining how others are doing and use it to your advantage. You are instinctively aware of how others are performing and use that to gauge where you are and what you have accomplished. You are competitive and are driven by a need to win.

9: Competition


You are sure that things happen for a reason, and have a firm grasp of how the collective behaves. You have a sense and an awareness of the bigger picture. This allows you to take responsibilities that are rooted for a genuine concern for others and for other cultures, and make the best decisions that are attuned to difference.

10: Connectedness


You value balance, and strive to maintain it. Fairness, unselfishness and consistency are important values for you and you strive to uphold them in any endeavor you do. You steer away from giving favors and circumstances that will compromise your fairness.

11: Consistency


You look back to understand the present. You remember past experiences well and make the most of the knowledge and experience it presents to you. You have a clear vantage point of things past and use it as a means to gauge your actions and decisions at the moment.

12: Context


You are good at assessing risks, often bringing them out in the open to be dissected and evaluated. You see the intricacies in each choice, informing your decisions well. Beside you, others seem reckless as you are careful and plan things out carefully.

13: Deliberative


You always see the potential in others and in a given situation, and strive to maximize the potential you see. You are charismatic and interact well with others, often seeing their strengths rather than weaknesses. You see what others fail to see, and make sure to make the most of it.

14: Developer


Your world is predictable and safe. Planning and a sense of order are important to you so you often impose structure and find comfort in routines. However, your predictable ways are also a source of structure in any team, and in any task as you develop more dependable practices. You are diligent and keep a well-maintained sense of operations for different things.

15: Discipline


You are sensitive to the emotions of people around you. You are intuitive and see other people’s perspectives and understand them the best you can. You help people express what they often cannot express themselves. As a result, other people are often drawn to you.

16: Empathy


You keep goals well, maintaining an eye on the things that are important to you. You constantly evaluate actions to see how well they will help you in your long-term goals in life. You help maintain order in a team or in a company, reminding others of what the truly important things are.

17: Focus


You look at the horizon and anticipate the future. This will be an important source of inspiration for you and for the people surrounding you. You are a dreamer who is filled with visions of what things could be, and you often find strength in the visions that most fascinates you.

18: Futuristic


You look for areas of agreement. You manage conflict well and maintain a healthy balance between things that could possibly collide. You believe in keeping a cordial atmosphere and strive to create spaces and interactions to make people work better and more efficiently.

19: Harmony


You are fascinated by ideas. You seek to find the simple concepts that define a series of complex problems. You are unfazed by challenges and often seek those thoughts that explain how and why things have turned out the way they did.

20: Ideation


You are careful not to alienate anyone in your group or company. You actively avoid cliques and strive to create environments that will be comforting for everyone. You are sensitive to each and every person’s needs and strive to nurture them no matter what the task.

21: Includer


You recognize the uniqueness in each person. You often avoid categorizations because you can see through differences no matter how obscure they are. You have a knack for figuring out each person’s strength and you use this knowledge to draw out the best in each person.

22: Individualization


You are inquisitive and have skills in collecting information, ideas, facts, and even small objects that are of importance to you. You take interest in small things others generally take for granted. It keeps your mind fresh, and some day, your attention to detail will prove valuable.

23: Input


You are stimulated by mental activity. You like spending time alone to ponder and reflect. As a result, you often see possibilities that others don’t see. You do not hesitate to think differently from the rest. As a result, you usually instigate others to question and challenge the norms which could be stifling the company you are working for.

24: Intellection


You like to learn and keep a healthy attitude towards new tasks. You will always be drawn to the process of learning, and this will stimulate you and recharge you to strive for the best in your work, developing competence constantly in numerous fields or interests that you pursue.

25: Learner


You strive for excellence and are hard to please. You are not satisfied with mediocrity and you often strive to overcome it by focusing on strengths. You have the intrinsic ability of figuring out a way to make the most out of the strengths you recognize.

26: Maximizer


You always see the silver lining in everything. You brim with optimism, celebrating every achievement while trying to make the most with every failure to move forward the best way possible. People find you infectious and often want to be around you since you inspire them to work better most of the time and feel good around you.

27: Positivity


You take great pride in the people you know, and strive to transform strangers into friends who can help you in numerous tasks. You never run out of people to talk to, and people gravitate towards you. You value relationships and the loyalty of friends above all. This is why people often trust you and would do almost anything for you.

28: Relator


You are dependable and commit to responsibilities and tasks assigned to you. People take comfort in your abilities and trust what you can do since you avoid excuses and strive to do your best no matter what. You are often the rock in any company, you live up to your commitments and find it hard to work with people who don’t.

29: Responsibility


You are a problem-solver who rises to the occasion when everyone else is about to give up. While others see problems as setbacks, you are thrilled by the challenge it presents. You learn well from problems and prove your mettle in tasks that everyone else would find daunting.

30: Restorative


You are confident in your strengths. This allows you to engage more risks and challenges because you are often assured that you can handle them and deliver in the end. You know what makes you unique, and rely on these traits to overcome obstacles.

31: Self-assurance


You seek to be recognized by others and your contributions known. You want to be heard and to stand out. You strive to build your credibility and reputation. This drive helps to fuel your success in any endeavor you choose.

32: Significance


You have a distinct way of thinking, and you are able to sort through chaos and find the best strategies to overcome difficulties because of your unique problem-solving skills. You are inquisitive and often see the different possibilities in situations where others find complexity.

33: Strategic


You win others over easily. You relate to other people easily and use this trait to get them on your side. You never run out of things to say and often initiate conversations with others. People find a sympathetic and understanding friend in you so they open up to you easily.

34: Woo


FOCUS ON YOUR TALENTS & STRENGTHS.


Leading With Your Strengths


Barrier Labels labels undercut and

unfairly judge a strength.

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A leader needs to know his strengths as a carpenter knows his tools, or a physician knows the instruments at her disposal. What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths – and can call on the right strength at the right time. This explains why there is no definitive list of characteristics that describes all leaders.

- Dr. Donald O. Clifton


Weakness

Define it and move forward.


WEAKNESS VS. NON-TALENT A weakness is something that gets in your way or in the way of others. Dealing with Weakness: •  Open communication/

transparency •  Get the RIGHT training •  Leverage other talents •  Use support systems •  Form complementary

partnerships


BALCONIES VS. BASEMENTS


A FINAL NOTE Affirm and Integrate! Learn to appreciate and value your own unique set of talents, then turn them into strengths. Great leaders know what they do best and capitalize on those qualities.


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REFERENCE MATERIALS Strengths Based Leadership (2009) StrengthsFinder 2.0 (2007) StrengthsQuest (2006) Teach With Your Strengths (2005) How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life (2004) How Full Is Your Bucket? Expanded Anniversary Edition (2009) Living Your Strengths (2004) Discover Your Sales Strengths (2003) Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001) To learn more about these books and others from Gallup Press, visit the Gallup Press website

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