Strength Based Leadership

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

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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.

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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 dont have to be well-rounded, but
teams should be.
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The Anatomy of a StrengthKnowledge
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The Anatomy of a StrengthSkills Talent

• A skill is designed to make the secrets of the
  best transferable

Competitive
Charming
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The Anatomy of a StrengthObstacles to Building
Our Strength
Fear
Weakness
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Are you putting your strengths to work?
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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 everyones 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 doesnt expect you to become a
  Jack of All Trades, but instead the Master of
  One.

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Are you putting your strengths to work?

• Do they like their job?
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Are their positions utilizing their strengths or
focusing on their weaknesses?
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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?

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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
• Gallups 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

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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
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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
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Now, Go Discover Your Strengths