Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing Productivity Through Leveraging Talent

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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
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Now, Discover Your Strengths Increasing
Productivity Through Leveraging Talent

• Session Outcomes
• Describe what a strengths-based leadership
  approach is
• Discuss ways of how to identify strengths
• Recognize what leadership strength is and how to
  build it
• Begin to appreciate the value and benefits of
  using this particular leadership approach

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• What is a strength?
• What do you think would be the value behind a
  strengths-approach to leading?

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• Gallup Research Findings on Successful Leaders
• Effective leaders invest in strengths
• Surround themselves with the right people and
  then maximize their team
• Understand their followers needs

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• In what ways can you assess a
• personal strengths?

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• 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?

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• Awareness Tools for
• Identifying Leveraging Talent

Tool Information Use Personal Profile System
(DiSC) Behavioral Assessment Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator Personality Indicator Index of
Learning Profiles Learning Style Competing
Values Behavioral Assessment Strengths
Finder Values and abilities Team Effectiveness
Profile Behavioral Assessment Note All tools
listed are offered through HRD programs and
services
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• What Makes A Great Leadership Team?
• Cohesive teams posses broader groupings of
  strengths
• There is a representation of strengths from each
  leadership domain
• Individuals need not be well rounded, successful
  teams should be

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• 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

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HRD Leadership Composite
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• How might you begin using a strengths-based
  leadership approach?
• In what ways are you already using the concept?
  How successful is it?

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• To sustain a strong team, leaders must continue
  to
• invest in each persons strengths
• build better relationships among its members

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• 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