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Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent
Leaders of great groups love talent and know where to find it.
They revel in the talent of others.
-Warren Bennis & Patricia Ward
Organizing Genius
Presenter:
Kristen Storey
Director
Human Resource Development
Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent
Session Outcomes:
 Describe what a strengths-based leadership
approach is
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Discuss ways of how to identify strengths
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Recognize what leadership strength is and how to
build it
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Begin to appreciate the value and benefits of using
this particular leadership approach
Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent
What is a strength?
What do you think would be the value
behind a strengths-approach to
leading?
Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent
Gallup Research Findings on Successful Leaders
•Effective leaders invest in strengths
•Surround
themselves with the right people and then
maximize their team
•Understand
their follower’s needs
Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent
In what ways can you assess a
personal strengths?
Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent
How HRD assesses strengths:
 Ensuring all staff take and report their DiSC, MBTI,
and Strengths profiles with the team
 Mapping strengths for team composite
 Ongoing performance discussions
 Observation of work deliverables
 During work planning and performance reviews
each employee is asked:
What parts of your work or projects you worked on
energized you, were most meaningful, brought you
fulfillment?
Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent
Awareness Tools for
Identifying & Leveraging Talent
Tool
Personal Profile System (DiSC)
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Index of Learning Profiles
Competing Values
Strengths Finder
Team Effectiveness Profile
Information Use
Behavioral Assessment
Personality Indicator
Learning Style
Behavioral Assessment
Values and abilities
Behavioral Assessment
Note: All tools listed are offered through HRD programs and services
Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent
Strengths Finder Themes HRD Staff
Based on the book/instrument from Now, Discover Your Strengths:
How To Develop Your Talents and Those of the People You Manage. M.Buckingham & D. O. Clifton
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Achiever
Activator
Adaptability
Analytical
Arranger
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5
X
Color Legend
X
X
Belief
Command
Teal = 3 or more staff
share this strength
X
Communication
Competition
Connectedness
Dk. Green = 2 staff share
this strength
X
Consistency
Context
Deliberative
Developer
Discipline
Empathy
Focus
Lt. Green= 1 staff have
this strength
X
X
White= No staff list this
strength
X
X
Futuristic
Harmony
Ideation
X
X
Includer
Individualization
Input
Intellection
Learner
Maximizer
Positivity
Relator
Responsibility
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Restorative
Self-Assurance
Significance
Strategic
Woo
X
X
Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent
What Makes A Great Leadership Team?
•Cohesive teams posses broader groupings of strengths
•There
is a representation of strengths from each leadership
domain
•Individuals
should be
need not be well rounded, successful teams
Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent
The Four Domains of Leadership Strength
•Executing-catch an idea, making a reality
•Influencing-reach a broader audience
•Relationship Building -holding a team
together
•Strategic Thinking –sees what could be
Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent
Executing
Influencing
Relationship Building
Strategic Thinking
Achiever
Activator
Adaptability
Analytical
Arranger
Command
Developer
Context
Belief
Communication
Connectedness
Futuristic
Consistency
Competition
Empathy
Ideation
Deliberative
Maximizer
Harmony
Input
Focus
Self Assurance
Includer
Intellection
Responsibility
Significance
Individualization
Learner
Restorative
Woo
Positivity
Strategic
Relator
Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent
HRD Leadership Composite
Executing
Influencing
Relationship Building
Strategic Thinking
Achiever X
Activator XX
Adaptability X
Analytical
Arranger
Command
Developer XXXX
Context
Belief
Communication XXX
Connectedness XXX
Futuristic X
Consistency
Competition
Empathy XXXX
Ideation XX
Deliberative
Maximizer XX
Harmony X
Input XXX
Focus X
Self Assurance
Includer
Intellection X
Responsibility X
Significance
Individualization X
Learner X
Restorative
Woo XX
Positivity XX
Strategic XX
X
Relator X
Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent
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How might you begin using a strengthsbased leadership approach?
In what ways are you already using the
concept? How successful is it?
Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent
To sustain a strong team, leaders must
continue to:
 invest in each person’s strengths
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build better relationships among its
members
Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent
Recommended Books:
•Now,
Discover Your Strengths Marcus Buckingham and
Donald O. Clifton
•Go
Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to
Achieve Outstanding Performance, Marcus Buckingham
•Strengthsfinder
2.0, Tom Rath
•Strengths-based
Leadership: Great Leaders, Team, and
Why People Follow, Tom Rath and Barry Conchie