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WELCOME
Integrating and Celebrating Strengths
OVERVIEW: STRENGTHS
 What are Strengths?
• Talents
• Skill and Knowledge
 History of Strengths
 Five Clues of Talent
 The Truth About You
• SIGNS of Strength
 Building Strengths
 Signature Themes
• Theme Dynamics
• Balconies/Basements
 Engagement: Why Strengths?
 Sharing and Reflection
DO YOU PUT YOUR STRENGTHS TO WORK?
• Have you identified your strengths?
• Could you list one or two strengths, if asked?
• Can you call upon them at a moment’s
notice, if required?
• Do those around you recognize your strengths?
• Are your strengths valued at home and work?
Group Discussion: Share a story when you were at your best.
GET SET!
“People Sort” Activity
• Think about the following
questions.
As you reflect on what gives you
energy, sort yourself in a
continuing line across the room
based on your preferences.
• Enjoy the Discoveries
• Have Fun!
WHAT GIVES YOU ENERGY?
You are expected to attend a gathering.
There will be 50 people there,
and you won’t know anyone.
WHAT GIVES YOU ENERGY?
Your closet:
WHAT GIVES YOU ENERGY?
What energizes you most when serving on a
team, planning a college-wide event?
Can we get together
I have an idea!
Let me get it done
I will spread the word.
WHAT GIVES YOU ENERGY?
What role energizes you most
when attending a strategic planning meeting?
WRITING CHALLENGE
WHAT ARE STRENGTHS
Talent
natural recurring
patterns of thought,
feeling, or behavior
that can be
productively applied
Skill & Knowledge
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time spent practicing,
developing your
skills, and building
your knowledge base
Strength
refining our dominated talent with
skill and knowledge – the ability to
provide consistent, near-perfect
performance
Strengths are talents used productively
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POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: THE ROOT OF STRENGTHS
CLIFTON STRENGTHSFINDER™
MEASURING STRENGTHS
 Web-based assessment, perspective of Positive Psychology
 Presents 177 Items
 Participants choose between the pair of statements
 20 second intervals
 Identifies “top five” signature themes
 Measures the presence of talent in 34 themes
RELIABILITY/ VALIDITY
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Over 9 million surveyed globally, 34 languages
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Four decades of studying talent and success
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Criterion-related, predictive validity study
• 93.45% predictions confirmed
• 70% accurate
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Factor and reliability analysis
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Score differences average under .04
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Test-retest over a six month interval - .75
FIVE CLUES TO TALENT
 Yearning
 Rapid Learning
 Flow
 Glimpses of Excellence
 Satisfaction
BUILDING STRENGTHS
THE TRUTH ABOUT YOU
The TRUTHS that allow you to play to
your strengths most of the time:
• As you grow, you become more of who you
already are.
• You are going to grow and develop the most in
your area of strength.
• A good team member deliberately volunteers
his/her strengths to the team most of the time.
THE FOUR SIGNS OF A STRENGTH
What does one of your strengths feel like to you?
S = SUCCEED
• When you do it, you feel effective
I = INSTINCT
• Before you do it, you actively
look forward to it
G = GROWTH
• While you are doing it, you feel
inquisitive and focused
N = NEEDS
• After you have done it, you feel
fulfilled and authentic
(Buckingham, 2008)
SIGNATURE THEMES
TREASURE HUNT
 Find 10 people whose Signature Themes
are NOT in your top five
 Record
 Person’s name
 Theme name
 One benefit from this
theme
TREASURE HUNT QUESTIONS
SIGNATURE THEMES TREASURE HUNT QUESTIONS
 What one discovery did you make while doing this exercise?
 What did you learn about yourself?
 Were there some participants who had themes that you know
you could benefit from if you partnered with them?
 Think about one of the themes that seems the least like you.
Were you surprised by its benefit?
 As you work with or develop deeper relationships with
colleagues and employees, how can you continue to build a
better understanding of unique talents?
EXPLORING MY SIGNATURE THEMES
SIGNATURE THEME
TALENT PHRASES/DEFINITION OF THEME IN YOUR
OWN WORDS
1. Competition
I like to engage in activities.
I am good at……I can win at………
2
3
4
5
DISCUSSION: What did you learn about people in general, about strengths, and
about this discovery process?
MY SIGNATURE THEMES AND HOW I USE THE TALENTS IN THEM
THEME
TALENT PHRASES/
DESCRIPTION OF
THEME
WHY THIS THEME IS
BENEFICIAL (What it
enables me to do)
WHEN/WHERE I
RECENTLY USED
TALENTS IN THS THEME
1. Arranger
Good at organizing
things, events, family
activities
Helps me maintain my
sanity at work and help
develop strategies for
getting things done
Organized a Job Expo with
a small group of PT staff
and volunteers
2.
3.
4.
5.
THEME DYNAMICS
Two Themes
How might you, with dominant
talent in these themes,
approach your role as a
leader?
How will these themes affect
your relationships with
others?
1.
2.
1.
2.
1.
2.
Themes do not work in isolation. Leaders need to understand that their themes,
and the themes of those with whom they work, interact, creating unique individual
strengths.
YOUR ROLE AND YOUR SIGNATURE THEMES
What is your role?
Signature Theme
1.
Critical Activities
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________________________________________________________
5. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
BALCONIES AND BASEMENTS
BALCONIES AND BASEMENTS
THEME
BASEMENT LABEL
BALCONY LABEL
Command
Bossy
Confident and powerful
advocate for others
Positivity
Unrealistic
Optimistic, uplifting
Achiever
Workaholic
Productive, an internal
motivation, determination
Futuristic
Dreamer
The vision of what could be,
possibilities
Self-Assurance
Arrogance
Trust your own instincts,
confident
WAIT! WHAT ABOUT MY WEAKNESSES?
A weakness is anything that gets
in the way of excellent performance
I can’t ignore my weaknesses,
so what do I do?
 Use your strengths to overcome a
weakness
 Design a support system
 Form complementary partnerships
 Adjust/Get better
 Open communication/Transparency
DRIVING ENGAGEMENT: FOCUSING ON STRENGTHS
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EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT – WHAT WE WANT
Accountability
Alignment
Approachability
Attitude
Candor
Connection
Meritocracy
Purpose
“This is about how we create the conditions in which
employees offer more of their capability and potential.”
– David MacLeod
TALENT COMMITMENT PLAN
SHARING YOUR STRENGTHS
WHAT DO YOU DO?
The next time you are asked, “WHAT DO YOU DO?”
rather than simply sharing your title, try and integrate
some of your signature themes into your answer.
BUILDING MY ALIGNMENT PLAN (MAP)
Plan
Core Purpose/Mission
Learning Style
Values/Beliefs
Capabilities/Strengths
Responses
WRITING AND REFLECTION