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UAC Conference - March 2, 2011
StrengthsQuest Stories:
Understanding Self and Others
Ed Brodka UB Career Services
Positivity – Woo - Adaptability – Maximizer – Strategic
Jennifer Morrison, Ph.D. UB Student Support Services
Achiever – Competition – Learner – Input – Intellection
Susan J. Ott, Ph.D. UB McNair Scholars Program
Achiever – Learner – Discipline – Focus - Input
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Our Goals for Today…
1. Overview of StrengthsQuest and why it’s
important.
2. Opportunity to get a “taste” of SQ.
3. Hear how our 3 departments at UB are using
StrengthsQuest.
4. Share how you may be using SQ at your
schools.
5. Other resources and training.
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Raise your hand if you..
1. Are currently using StrengthsQuest at your
school or department.
2. Are somewhat familiar with StrengthsQuest but
are not really using it.
3. Know little or nothing about StrengthsQuest.
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Is this about your success or the
success of your students?
Both!
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What do we know about Success?
“Individuals gain more when
they build on their talents, than
when they make comparable
efforts to improve their areas of
weakness”
-Clifton & Harter
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People who have the opportunity to focus
on their strengths everyday are:
1. Six times as likely to be engaged in their
jobs
2. More than three times as likely to report
having an excellent quality of life in general
- Tom Rath (2007)
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Strengths in Organizations – Employee Engagement
55%
57%
33%
38%
29%
45%
16%
40%
22%
1%
61%
2%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
2006 Poll Ignored Weakness Strengths
Engaged
Not Engaged
ActivelyDisengaged
Copyright © 2008 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Some Research Findings….
Strengths-based interventions have contributed to
statistically significant increases in:
• Student retention and academic performance
• Students’ academic engagement and self-efficacy
• Self-confidence, optimism, direction, hope, altruism,
and sense of meaning and purpose
See strengthsquest.com – Educator Resources – Research, also…
A Comprehensive Strengths-Based Approach to the First-Year Experience, Laurie A.
Schreiner, Ph.D. Eileen Hulme, Ph.D. Azusa Pacific University, 2006 Annual Conference on
the First-Year Experience
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Employers and Graduate/Professional Schools
will ask our students:
What are your strengths?
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Here are 5 common answers to the question:
What are your strengths?
1. “I work well with others.”
2. “I have good communication
skills.”
3. “I am organized”
4. “I am creative.”
5. “I am a hard worker”.
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How can StrengthsQuest help?
It expands our vocabulary about our talents.
How?
Based on Gallup polling company’s 40 year
study of human strengths, scientists lead by
Donald Clifton created a language of 34 most
common themes of talent that are used when
people are successful.
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What is Talent vs. Strength?
Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling or behaving)
X
Investment (time spent practicing, developing your skills,
and building your knowledge base)
_____________________
= Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance,
doing something that makes you feel strong)
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If you want to succeed, you need to:
1. Realize and affirm your natural talents and
see where you can use them.
2. Develop your talents for given activities.
3. Apply your strengths in life –academics,
careers and relationships.
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Activity: Choose & Share Strength Story
1. From the StrengthsQuest Quick Reference
Guide, put a “X” next to 5 that you feel best
describe you.
http://www.strengthsquest.com/content/141365/Resources.aspx
2. In small groups, share a story of how you
have recently used one of your chosen
talents in your job or at home.
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How have we used StrengthsQuest in
career services, academic advising and
graduate school advising?
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For more info from Gallup..
1. Go to strengthsquest.com to see Educator Resources
including free webinars, trainings, articles, activities and
research.
2. For more info contact: [email protected] or call:
(800) 713-2595
3. To bring a training to your campus, please reach out to:
KYLE J. ROBINSON, [email protected] ,
Director of Programming and Career Development
Education Practice, (952)838-0239
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For more info at NACADA…
Articles… http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/Theory.htm
Strengths Based Advising
Strengths Based Advising via the NACADA Journal
Using Strengths-Based Advising to Promote Persistence
and Restructure “One Size Fits All” Advising Models
NACADA Webinar at:
http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Webinars/W39.htm
DW39 Academic Advising for Student Retention and Persistence: A Strengths
Development Approach
Online Webinar Presentation
Thursday, March 31, 2011
1:00 - 2:30 Central Time
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Read this book: StrengthsQuest: Discover and Develop Your Strengths in
Academics, Career, and Beyond, by Clifton et. al. (2006)
or
access it on-line with a SQ Code
Affirming/Developing sections
• Actionable Items for all 34 Themes
Apply Your Strengths in Academics
• General academic life
• Study Techniques
• Relationships
• Class Selection
• Extra Curricular Activities
Applying Your Strengths in Careers
• Actionable Items for all 34 Themes
Copyright © 2008 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Questions??
Thank you for sharing your Strengths
with us!
-Ed , Jennifer and Susan
.