Strengths-Based

Organization

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ResourceEndless Opportunities

Meritocracy

Entrepreneurial Spirit

Strengths Based Organization

High Performance Culture

The 3 Tools to Develop a Strength Based Organization

Kolbe

DiSC

Strengths Finder

DISC Dominance Influence Steadiness Conscientiousness

Discover your communication styles

Understanding others

The 3 Tools to Develop a Strength Based Organization

Discovering your Strengths • Determine your individual

strengths and/or team’s strengths

• Analyze results• Identify strengths• Identify opportunities

The 3 Tools to Develop a Strength Based Organization

Kolbe Fact Finder Follow Thru Quick Start Implementor

Kolbe Assessment identifies how you take action.

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Will occur in 2014!

The 3 Tools to Develop a Strength Based Organization

Discovering your

Strengths

Do you ever wonder why you make certain choices?

Why you do what you do?

Why you like certain things?

Why you are better at some things than others?

There’s a reason. It’s your talents.

Invest In Your Strengths

Donald O. Clifton, PH.D (1924-2003)

The father of Strengths-Based Psychology and Creator of the Clifton

StrengthsFinder

The Father of Strengths

Whose Idea was this?

• Gallup was the first organization to intentionally research and record information about human strengths and has studied the subject for decades.

• Gallup & Clifton Created StrengthsFinder Assessment

• Measures the prevalence of 34 talent themes in individuals

• Created to help people worldwide discover their strengths

Natural behavior

Apply your talents = reach your full potential

Act with confidence,

direction & hope

“Your best bet for success lies in building on who you already are, not trying to

become someone you’re not.”

Conventional Approach To Personal Development

Identify Improvement

Areas

Develop an Improvemen

t Plan

Most, if not all, behaviors can be learned.

The best in a role display the same behaviors.

Weakness fixing leads to success.

Maintain each person’s strengths and work on fixing weaknesses.

Strengths-Based Approach To Personal Development

Identify Talents

Develop Strengths

Focus on each person’s strengths and manage around weaknesses.

Only some behaviors can be learned (skills and knowledge).

The best in a role deliver the same outcomes using different behaviors.

Weakness fixing prevents failure; strengths building leads to success.

What should you be focusing on?

Key Points on your journey:

• Talents, Knowledge, and skills• Our greatest talents = best opportunities for

excellence.• Personal development: To focus on your greatest

talents • Find ways to manage or work around your lesser

talents.

Talents

Strengths-based development in Action

Responsibility theme applied to create a strength:

Able to Finish a task Always Delivers

Ideation theme applied to create a strength:

Discussing Ideas Go-To-Guy/Girl

Relator theme applied to create a strength:

Establishing Relationships with People

Visiting Clients/Relationship Builder

Talent (A natural way of thinking, feeling or behaving)

XInvestment (time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base)

= Strength (the ability to consistently

provide near-perfect performance)

Strengths-Based Approach

Defining our termsTheme n. a category of talents. Themes help you begin to discover and talk about your greatest talents

Talent n. a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving. The greater the intensity of the talent, the greater its power, and the greater you opportunity for success.

Skill n. the basic ability to move through the fundamental steps of a task. Skill can be acquired through formal or informal training.

Knowledge n. what you know. Knowledge can be acquired through formal or informal education.

Practice n. the time spent working, exercising, and applying your skills, knowledge.

Strength n. the ability to consistently produce a positive outcome through near-perfect performance in a specific task. To finish with strength, start with talent.

Answer the following:

1. What do these five themes reveal about how I build relationships?

2. What do these five themes reveal about how I manage the things I do or am responsible for each day?

3. What do these five themes reveal about what motivates or energizes me?

4. What do these five themes reveal about how I influence others?

5. What do these five themes reveal about how I think about and process information?

◦ Take an online assessment to discover your key talents. http://www.discprofile.com/ http://www.strengthstest.com/ http://www.kolbe.com/

◦ Discuss those talents on your next annual review and how to build on that.

◦ Trained to develop and build on people’s strengths.

Next Steps for Discovering your Talents

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