Strenghts Based Leadership Strenghts Based Leadership

Aleksandra Dukovska

Hubert Humphrey Fellow 2010/2011

Based on the book Strenghts Based Leadership

Tom Rath &Barry Conchie

• Type of leadership based on strenghts

• Examples of leaders and their strenghts

• Characteristic of strong teams

• Leading with intellection

• Important quotes

Content:

FIRST JUST JUMP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx0mYN32Kps

http://inside.nike.com/blogs/nikewomen-en_GB/2009/10/14/sofia-boutella-on-challenging-yourself

THEN…..

FIND AMONG four domains of leadership strenghts

Executive

Influencing

Relationship building

Strategic thinking

 

  

FROM

EXECUTIVE

Example: Wendy Koop

Chief Executive and Founder

TEACH FOR AMERICA

Strenght How to cover educational inequity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV2MjKWThtQ&feature=related

 

Executive 

Types of people

Achiever, arranger, belief, consistency, deliberative, discipline, focus, responsibility, restorative

INFLUENCING Example: Simon Cooper

President of the Ritz Carlton

Challenge: how to take one of the world’s greatest brands to a new level of excellence

He asked a rock-star and philanthropist Bono to join a morning meeting with housekeeping staff

Goal: doing little things like this to win others

•Activator, command, communication, competition, maximizer, self-assurance, significance, woo

Influencing• Type of people

Activator, command, communication, competition, maximizer, self-assurance, significance, woo

Relationship Building

Example: Mervyn Davies

Strenght: To build an organization that had a “heart and a soul”

Relationship Building

• Davies had to build an extraordinarily diverse leadership team

 

People with different backgrounds and personalities

Relationship Building

Relationship Building

Type of people

Adaptability, futuristic, positivity, relator, learner

Strategic thinking

Example: Brad Anderson

Chief Executive officer Best Bay

Specialty: Anderson would simply disappear for weeks on end in search of new ideas

Strategic thinking

• Top five strengths: context, ideation, input, learner, connectedness

 

• He read everything from Rolling Stone to historical biographies

 

• Attend non-electronics conferences in search of bigger ideas

He brought outside experts to challenge Best Bay way of thinking to the point where

It was “radically complained about my peers”

 

Strategic thinking

“I find amazing that I can be fifty- eight years old and seem to know less every day. No matter how much you learn, it just continues to open up more substantial questions and relationships”-Anderson

THINK AND GROW

NEW TEAM

Characteristic of strong teams

Conflict doesn’t destroy strong team

Focus is on the results

 

Strong teams prioritize what’s best for the organization and they move forward 

Characteristic of Strong teams

Members committed to personal life

Strong teams embrace diversity

Strong teams are magnet for talent

Leading with intellectionProvide stability

Help others to understand your need for solitude and space to think

Share your mental steps so others don’t worry that your thinking lost foundation

Leading with intellection

Be honest to admit that you are still learning

Respect knowledge that is superior to your own

Leading with intellection

“ Building a strong team within an organization requires the same basic ingredients of a successful soccer squad” – former UN Secretary General Kofi Anan

FIND

BEFORE EVERYTHING JUST