Strengths In Your Career

•Brandi MairLearner, Input, Achiever, Self-Assurance, Adaptability

•Curtis LarsenIdeation, Strategic, Learner, Maximizer, Achiever

About your presenters

So what do you remember about StrengthsQuest?

When have you used your talentssince we last met?

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Barriers to Strengths

• Strength that is lived in a negative way

• A strength that is mistaken or devalued

• Find balance and reduce stress

Well Being

Five Essential Elements• Career

• Social

• Financial

• Physical

• Community

Career

Social

Financial

Community

Physical

Wellbeing

Career Wellbeing: Your Identity

What do you do?

The Economic Journal, June 2008. “Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction”: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis. Andrew Clark, et. al.

An Organizational Focus

Heart, Health and Boss

• Of Cortisol and cholesterol

“Have a good weekday.”

Career Interview: What I do Best worksheet

“Despite the American myth, I cannot be or do whatever I desire– a truism, to be sure, but a truism we often deny. Our created natures make us like organisms in an ecosystem: there are some roles and relationships in which we thrive and others in which we wither and die”

-Parker Palmer

Career Well Being

Those who report high Career Well Being are twice as likely to have a thriving personal life.

-- Tom Rath and Jim Harter

Finding your Sweet Spot

Interest & Passion

Interest & Passion

Job Requirements

Job RequirementsYour TalentsYour Talents

The Gallup Q12

The Gallup Q12Basic Needs

• Do you know what is expected of you at work?

• Do you have the materials and equipment to do your work right?

What do I get?

The Gallup Q12Individual Contribution

• At work, do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?

• In the last seven days, have you received recognition or praise for doing good work?

• Does your supervisor, or someone at work, seem to care about you as a person?

• Is there someone at work who encourages your development?

What do I get?

What do I give?

The Gallup Q12Teamwork

• At work, do your opinions seem to count?• Does the mission/purpose of your

company make you feel your job is important?

• Are your fellow employees committed to doing quality work?

• Do you have a best • friend at work?

What do I get?

What do I give?

Do I belong?

The Gallup Q12Growth

• In the past six months, has someone at work talked to you about your progress?

• In the last year, have you had opportunities to learn and grow?

What do I get?

What do I give?

Do I belong?

How can I grow?

Team Weave

The Four Main Categories of SQ

Executing

Influencing

Relationship Building

Strategic Thinking

Executing

• When you need to get things done

Achiever, Arranger, Belief, Consistency, Deliberative, Discipline, Focus,

Responsibility, Restorative

Influencing

• When you need to sell what you have to as many people as possible

Activator, Command, Communication, Competition, Maximizer, Self-Assurance,

Significance, WOO

Relationship Building

• When you need to create an organization that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Adaptability, Developer, Connectedness, Empathy, Harmony, Includer,

Individualization, Positivity, Relator

Strategic Thinking

• When you need to take the organization to the future from where it has been.

Analytical, Context, Futuristic, Ideation, Input, Intellection, Learner, Strategic

Appreciation Of Other Strengths

Executing Influencing

Relationship Building

Strategic Thinking

How do the groups work?

• Benefits of different talents in a team

• Barriers that talents may create in a team

Flourishing

• Which specific activities did you find yourself looking forward to last week?

• Was there any time last week when you got in your zone?

• What specific activities last week made you feel strong?

How will you use your strengths?

Questions???Brandi Mair

Student Life & Leadership 801-957-4652

brandi.mair@slcc.edu

Curtis Larsen Student Life & Leadership

801-957-4644curtis.larsen@slcc.edu