10 Steps to

Leveraging the

Strengths of Your

Team

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Ten Steps 1. Keep it Classy

2. Create a Clear, Compelling and Shared Vision

3. Use Milestones to Motivate

4. Focus on the Positives

5. Go for Flow

6. Be Poised

7. Play to Their Strengths

8. Avoid Too Much “I” in the “We”

9. Feed Their Ego

10. Give Feedback Privately and Constructively

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1

Keep it Classy @DeEttaMJones

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2 Create

clear, compelling

&

shared

VISION

a

VISION

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3 Use

Milestones

as a

Motivator

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Positive

Experiences of Positive Emotions

Broaden Momentary

Thought-Action Repertoires

Build Enduring Personal

Resources

Transform People and Produce

Upward Spirals 4

Focus

on the

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Appreciative Inquiry is the study and exploration of what gives life to human systems when they function at their best.

This approach to personal change and organization change is based on the assumption that questions and dialogue about strengths, successes, values, hopes, and dreams are themselves transformational.

Technique:

Appreciative

Inquiry

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Go for

Flow

5

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Be Po i sed

6 Always

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Play to Their Strengths 7

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Maximizing strengths involves:

• identification of strengths

• integration of strengths-related knowledge into

how an individual views himself or herself

• behavioral change in accord with capitalizing

on strengths

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Avoid Too Much “I” in the “We” 8

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9 Fe

ed

th

eir e

go

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10 Give feedback

privately and

constructively

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