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Strength Based Leadership

Strength Based Leadership. Presented by. Sharon Durkin Sara Nilsson Alex Dufek Van Theary Cristian Camerena. Strengths-Based Leadership 34 Strengths for a Great Leadership Team. The most cohesive and successful teams possess broad groupings of strengths.

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Strength Based Leadership

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  1. Strength Based Leadership Presented by Sharon Durkin Sara Nilsson Alex Dufek Van Theary Cristian Camerena

  2. Strengths-Based Leadership 34 Strengths for a Great Leadership Team • The most cohesive and successful teams possess broad groupings of strengths. • There are four distinct domains of leadership strength: • Executing • Influencing • Relationship Building • Strategic Thinking

  3. Four Domains of Leadership Strength Instead of one dominant leader who tries to do everything or individuals who all have similar strengths, contributions from all four domains lead to a strong and cohesive team.

  4. Four Domains of Leadership Strength The strongest teams have a representation of strengths in each of the four domains. • EXECUTERS make things happen. INFLUENCERS sell the team's ideas. • RELATIONSHIP BUILDERS hold the team together. • STRATEGIC THINKERS keep group focused. Individuals don’t have to be well-rounded, but teams should be.

  5. The Anatomy of a StrengthKnowledge

  6. The Anatomy of a StrengthSkills & Talent “A skill is designed to make the secrets of the best transferable” Competitive Charming

  7. The Anatomy of a StrengthObstacles to Building Our Strength Fear Weakness

  8. Are you putting your strengths to work?

  9. Are you putting your strengths to work?Things to ask yourself… Does my position allow me to achieve consistent, near perfect performance that is both excellent and fulfilling? • Is your employer investing in your strengths, or focusing on your weaknesses? • Does your employer know your strengths…? Have you told them? • Is your employer giving you tasks that play to your • strengths and that are engaging? • Are you part of a well balanced team that • utilizes everyone’s strengths properly?  If the answers to these questions were mostly NO, it might be time for you to part ways and seek a career that doesn’t expect you to become a “Jack of All Trades”, but instead the “Master of One”.

  10. Are you putting your strengths to work? Do they like their job? Are their positions utilizing their strengths or focusing on their weaknesses?

  11. Identifying a Strengths-Based OrganizationGeneral Assessment Does HR practices support a strengths based culture… • What does the employee selection process look like • Are employees with the right talent being hired Are employees forced to fit a mold… • Are employees unhappy and unproductive • Is there more emphasis on policies, procedures and competencies How is staff development selected for employees… • Are employees sent to workshops to build on weaknesses • Strength focused organizations send employees to workshops to sharpen strengths Is there promotion up the ladder… • Are people being promoted out of their areas of strength into a position of a “Jack of all Trades?

  12. Identifying a Strengths-Based OrganizationHow is it being Implemented Is it clear how performance measured • Are employees allowed to do what they do best in ways that works for them? • Gallup uses pay-for-performance compensation plan Talk the talk • Are employees consistently hearing that the beliefs and values are strength based driven • Does management express that they care about each employees development Does the organization have a theme profile • Gallup’s strength based profile outlines the following on their strength based culture: • Use your strengths to succeed; one size does not fit all; and strengths are a way of life

  13. Identifying a Strengths-Based Organization Outcomes Relationships formed with the customers Relationships formed internally Productivity, quality of work and personal growth and development in the company

  14. What does this all mean… Four Domains of Leadership Anatomy of a strength Knowledge Am I using my strength… Using your strengths 34 Talent Themes Strength-Based Leadership What does a strength based organization look like… How do I know what my strengths are…

  15. Now, Go Discover Your Strengths

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