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Design a better group experience for DPT students
using StrengthsfinderSkye Donovan PT, PhD, Board Certified Orthopedic Specialist
Megan Moran PT, DPT, Board Certified Sports Specialist
Linda Christie PhD
Identifying the problem
• Lack of student cohesion within the cohort
• High student anxiety
• Low numbers of students seeking leadership opportunities
• Ineffective/undervalued group projects (despite PBL curriculum)
APTA Leadership compass
• Student leadership taskforce
• 3 levels
• DEVELOPING (SELF)
• RELATING (OTHERS)
• INFLUENCING (MENTORING OTHERS TO LEAD)
Desired student learning OUTCOMES
• Identify personal style/mindset
• Describe authentic leaders
• Develop personal leadership plan
• Create network for support
• Recognize your emotional reactions and /or biases in communication
• Realize how leadership can impact the workplace
• Practice effective marketing/social media related to leadership
Goals for students
• Realize your strengths
• Manage your weaknesses
• Recognize strengths in others
• Tools to help:• StrengthsFinder
• Colors assessment
• Grit Scale
• Growth Mindset
Used various references: Common themes
• Talent X Investment = Strength (Strengthsfinder)• Strengths fall under 4 common themes: Executing, Influencing,
Relationship building, Strategic thinking
• Talent X Effort = Skill (Grit)
• Skill X Effort = Achievement (Grit)
• Persistence and Effort matter (Growth Mindset)
What is Strengthsfinders
• Designed to describe your approach to work• (Myers-Briggs is a personality test)
• Gives you vocabulary to discuss your strengths – a way to describe your personal characteristics
• From our standpoint it gives us a pulse of the class- helps us to understand class culture e.g.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5hWxKCqabM
Talent is a naturally recurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied
Examples of talent include:
Effortlessly and instinctively starting conversations
Thinking in an orderly or timely manner
Easily and naturally influencing others
Seeing patterns in data
Consistently having a positive outlook on life
Everyone has talent
Themes are neutral
Themes are not labels
Differences are an advantage
People need one another
Guiding principles of Strengthsfinder
Trombone player wanted
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfQdiVpcnGI
Why Strengthsfinders
• Strengths coach on campus
• #1best seller
• Faculty success with this tool
• Validated, fine-grained tool broken into 4 broad categories, with 34 talents
Hopes for Strengthsfinder
• Increased self-awareness & self-knowledge, we want students to know & use their strengths
• Promote personal development
• PBL curriculum with much group work; realizing their strengths and recognize others
• Improved engagement
• Better interviewing skills upon graduation
Potential benefits
• What will happen when we think about what is right with people rather than fixating on what is wrong with them?
• We’re never so strong as when we have our successes in mind
• Access to excellence
• Fully understand how to apply your greatest talents and strengths to your everyday life
• People who focus on using their strengths are
• 3 times as likely to report having any excellent quality of life
• 6 times as likely to be engaged in their jobs
People working in their Strengths Zone
• Look forward to going to work (school)
• Have more positive than negative interactions with coworkers (classmates)
• Treat customers (patients) better
• Tell their friends they work for a great organization
• Achieve more on a daily basis
• Have more positive, creative and innovative moments
Spring 2019
• PT as a Manager• Semester long group work
• Collaborate with business school
Collaboration with Business School Faculty
• Strengths Coach, Dr. Linda Christie
• Met with our students twice
• Strengthsfinder 2.01
Strengthsfinder reports
• Online quiz- 30 minutes
• Top 5 strengths report
Megan Moran SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 08-21-2018
Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are
those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop strategies to
meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families.
A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but an
awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons behind
your consistent successes.
Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order
revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your "top five."
Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By
focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents, build
them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect performance.
Responsibility
Your Responsibility theme forces you to take psychological ownership for anything you commit to, and
whether large or small, you feel emotionally bound to follow it through to completion. Your good name
depends on it. If for some reason you cannot deliver, you automatically start to look for ways to make it up
to the other person. Apologies are not enough. Excuses and rationalizations are totally unacceptable. You
will not quite be able to live with yourself until you have made restitution. This conscientiousness, this near
obsession for doing things right, and your impeccable ethics, combine to create your reputation: utterly
dependable. When assigning new responsibilities, people will look to you first because they know it will get
done. When people come to you for help—and they soon will—you must be selective. Your willingness to
volunteer may sometimes lead you to take on more than you should.
Achiever
Your Achiever theme helps explain your drive. Achiever describes a constant need for achievement. You
feel as if every day starts at zero. By the end of the day you must achieve something tangible in order to
feel good about yourself. And by “every day” you mean every single day—workdays, weekends, vacations.
No matter how much you may feel you deserve a day of rest, if the day passes without some form of
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Responsibility
SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION
People who are especially talented in the Responsibility theme take psychological ownership of what they
say they will do. They are committed to stable values such as honesty and loyalty.
YOUR PERSONALIZED STRENGTHS INSIGHTS
What makes you stand out?
Chances are good that you have a strong sense of commitment. It motivates you to make sure that things
are carried through to completion even when difficulties arise. Driven by your talents, you may wish to have
a broader range of control and accountability on the job or in your personal life. By nature, you may reject
the idea that telling a falsehood about something unimportant is acceptable. Perhaps you refuse to make
an innocent social excuse to protect someone’s feelings. Instinctively, you place a premium on doing
everything correctly. Whatever you are involved in or associated with must typify — that is, symbolize —
accuracy and precision. Your high standards demand exactness. Because of your strengths, you are
occasionally willing to be vulnerable. Perhaps you claim your talents or admit your weaknesses. Your
openness may help some people know you better as a person. Your straightforward style may convince
others you are honest, dependable, and reliable.
Questions
1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?
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Achiever
SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION
People who are especially talented in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work hard.
They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive.
YOUR PERSONALIZED STRENGTHS INSIGHTS
What makes you stand out?
By nature, you win over individuals once they notice you are intense, diligent, and earnest. You are
attracted to people whose work ethic matches your own. This explains why many of them like you and why
you like many of them. Driven by your talents, you frequently work without much rest. You typically want to
pinpoint useful and intriguing facts. You likely have a need to explain why various events unfolded as they
did. This information undoubtedly permits you to produce more and better results. Because of your
strengths, you probably have a reputation for working many hours so your team, class, or workgroup can
reach its goals. Chances are good that you likely have a reputation for being a hard worker. This explains
why you tell individuals they can accomplish a lot more than they think they can. You press people to excel
rather than settle for mediocre results. You probably have a difficult time associating with people who do
only what is expected and who complain when they are challenged to do much more. Instinctively, you
frequently sign up for group activities that involve physical exertion and/or long hours. You probably notice
your work ethic is much stronger than that of your teammates.
Questions
1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?
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Executing Domain
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• Arranger
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Influencing Domain
• Activator
• Command
• Communication
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• Maximizer
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• Influencing domain
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Relationship Building
• Adaptability
• Connectedness
• Developer
• Empathy
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• Includer
• Individualization
• Positivity
• Relator
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Strategic Thinking Domain
• Analytical
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PT students
• Many have strengths in Relationship Building
• Business school: Influencer
Student 1
• Deliberative
• Restorative
• Futuristic
• Adaptability
• Empathy
Student 2
• Achiever
• Discipline
• Maximizer
• Harmony
• Futuristic
Futuristic
Translating to Group Work
Group Composition
• Responsibility or Discipline or Focus
• Harmony or Includer
• Activator or Achiever
• Maximizer or Developer
Group Composition
Experience in
• Writing
• Public Speaking
• PowerPoint
Group Composition
• Let’s Practice
• Make 4 groups of 5 students
Group Composition
• Responsibility or Discipline or Focus
• Harmony or Includer
• Activator or Achiever
• Maximizer or Developer
My Groups
• A E H S C
• F R T B P
• J L K N G
• M Q O D I
End of Semester Survey
• 5 questions
• 5 point Likert scale• Strongly agree – strongly disagree
Survey2
• Lurie SJ, et al, 2011, Family Medicine
• “Assessing Teamwork: A Reliable Five-Question Survey”
• Survey of effectiveness of the team
Question 1
• This team encourages everyone to share ideas
• 71.4%
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• Leadership in this team creates an environment where things can be accomplished
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• People in this team have the information they need to do their jobs well
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• When people in this team experience a problem, they make a serious effort to figure out what’s really going on
• 78.5%
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• Everyone in the team feels able to act on the team vision
• 78.5%
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Student Open Response
• “I don’t think our group really focuses on our strengths. I don’t know my teammates strengths.”
Student Open Response
• “I really enjoyed this exercise because I think it really opened my eyes to how different people can work together, and how the differences can make a group that much stronger. It has also allowed me to view myself in a different, and more positive light which has been very beneficial.”
Student Open Response
• “I think that Strengthsfinder was a good way to self assess and understand others.”
Survey Responses
• Low sample size: 14
• 35% of the class
Survey Responses
• Additional variables for group effectiveness3
• Clear Purpose
• Openness/Communication
• Knowing one and others’ roles
Changes for next year
• Initial activity to review strengths
• Offer pointers for successful group experiences
• Reflection paper
Further Use of Strengthsfinder
• Common language
• Mentoring meetings/advisor meetings
• Interviews
• Workplace
Strengths in the clinic
Strengths in the workplace
QUESTIONS???
Youtube.com
CliftonStrengths
• https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/home.aspx
References
1. Rath T. Strengthsfinder 2.0. New York: Gallup Press; 2007
2. Lurie SJ, Schultz SH, Lamanna G. Assessing teamwork: A reliable five-question survey. Fam Med. 2011;43(10):731.
3. Bannister SL, Wickenheiser HM, Keegan DA. Key elements of highly effective teams. Pediatrics. 2014;133(2):184. doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-3734.