leading with your strengths - crash course in gallup strengthsfinder
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Learning about Gallup StrengthsFinder and how to use the information to achieve your natural potential.TRANSCRIPT
Leading With Your Strengths
• Graduated from Benedictine College in 2008
• Served as the Resident Director of St. Scholastica Hall from 2010-2012
What about YOU?• Name• Hometown • Top 5 Themes •Why did you decide to come to
BC
Achiever Activator
Adaptability Analytical Arranger
Belief Command
Communication Competition
Connectedness Context
Deliberative Developer Discipline Empathy
FocusFuturistic HarmonyIdeationIncluder
Individualization Input
Intellection Learner
Maximizer Positivity
RelatorResponsibility
Restorative Self-Assurance
Significance Strategic
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WE ARE WHAT WE REPEATEDLY DO.
-ARISTOTLE
Talent vs. Strength Talent – naturally recurring pattern of
thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied.
Strength – ability to provide consistent, near-perfect performance in a given activity.
Five Clues to Talent Yearning
To what kinds of activities are you naturally drawn?
Rapid LearningWhat kinds of
activities to you seem to pick up
quickly?
FlowIn what activities did
you automatically know the steps to be
taken?
Glimpses of Excellence
What sorts of activities do you naturally do
well?
Satisfaction
What kinds of activities give you energy and a
sense of passion?
Building Your Strengths
Skill
Talent Knowledge
Strength
Barrier Labels labels undercut and
unfairly judge a strength.
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Why Strengths?
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A leader needs to know his strengths as a carpenter knows his tools, or a physician knows the instruments at her disposal. What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths – and can call on the right strength at the right time. This explains why there is no definitive list of characteristics that describes all leaders.
- Dr. Donald O. Clifton
Three Types of People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Nqzx4Z1FA
Weakness
Define it and move forward.
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• A weakness is something that gets in your way or in the way of others.
• Is it a non-talent or a weakness?
Weakness vs. Non-talent
Dealing With Weakness• Open communication/transparency • Get the RIGHT training • Leverage other talents • Use support systems • Form complementary partnerships
Balconies and Basements
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One Final Note About Strengths • Affirm and Integrate!– Learn to appreciate and value your own unique
set of talents, then turn them into strengths.
• Great leaders know what they do best and capitalize on those qualities.