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Strengths-Based
Organization
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2020 VISION : To be the Industry’s Most Essential
ResourceEndless Opportunities
Meritocracy
Entrepreneurial Spirit
Strengths Based Organization
High Performance Culture
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The 3 Tools to Develop a Strength Based Organization
Kolbe
DiSC
Strengths Finder
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DISC Dominance Influence Steadiness Conscientiousness
Discover your communication styles
Understanding others
The 3 Tools to Develop a Strength Based Organization
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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
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Kolbe Fact Finder Follow Thru Quick Start Implementor
Kolbe Assessment identifies how you take action.
Stay tuned…
Will occur in 2014!
The 3 Tools to Develop a Strength Based Organization
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Discovering your
Strengths
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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
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Talents
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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
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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
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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.
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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?
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◦ 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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Questions and Answer?
Discussion