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Leveraging Strengths To Promote Career Success

© 2018 Menttium Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Confidential.

Your Host

Sue Stanek, Ph.D.Menttium Facilitator

“We are born with talents – it is up to us to develop them into strengths.”

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Agenda

• How To:o More effectively know/articulate your strengths

o Better leverage your strengths

• Gain greater self-awareness o When strengths become weaknesses

o Leveraging others’ diverse strengths within your team/organization

• Voices of Experience• Next Steps

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Natural Talents Developed are StrengthsWhat Are Your Stand Out Strengths?

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“At work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day.”

• Strongly Disagree• Disagree• 50/50• Agree• Strongly Agree

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“At work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day.”

One-third strongly agreed

• Six times as likely to be engaged at work• Three times as likely to have excellent

quality of life

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Leveraging Our Strengths

We do our work:• Better• Faster• Greater – we accomplish

more

With more: • Emotional engagement• Stamina• Creativity

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Articulating Your Strengths

If an executive at work asked you right now…• Could you easily articulate them?

• Could you give examples of how they made a significant positive impact?

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Reflection: Self and Others

1. Ask Yourself• What comes easily to me that doesn’t to others?• What am I known for? What words do others use

to describe me?• Tools: MBTI, DISC, Strengths Finder

2. Ask Others • If I wrote an article or book, what topic would

people learn the most from me?• From your perspective, what do I know or do

uniquely better than others?• Seek Feedback proactively, all the time

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Handout

Which Adjectives Describe Me Best?

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Articulating Your Strengths

• Four Domains of Effective Leadership• Executing• Influencing• Relationship Building• Strategic Thinking

• Assessment: Top Five applied to four domains

• 40 year study• 10 million people• 34 Themes• Assessment: Top Five

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Effectively Knowing/Articulating Your Strengths

Look for reoccurring

themes

Sharpen your focus

Don't minimize your strengths

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Leveraging Strengths

Proactively shape your role around your strengths:

1. Develop weekly discipline to map out where you can apply your strengths.

2. Talk with your manager and/or team about how you could better leverage your strengths.

Look for patterns, ask:

“How and where could I further cultivate my strengths?”

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When Strengths Become Weaknesses

Over-Strengths = Unproductive Application

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Strengths and Diversity

“I would have never thought of itthat way before.”

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How To

• More effectively know/articulate your strengths• Better leverage your strengths

Gain greater self-awareness

• When strengths become weaknesses• Leveraging others’ diverse strengths within your

team/organization

Back to the Beginning

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Voices of Experience

Julie OwenChief Operating Officer,

Innovative Office Solutions

John RexPresident,Rex Executive Leadership

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Next Steps

• Review and use the handout• Discuss elements of today’s session that resonate

most in your next mentoring partnership meeting• Leverage resources provided for inspiration and

motivation

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Resources

• Linked In: Seeing Strengths In Mundane Everyday Lifewww.linkedin.com/pulse/seeing-strengths-mundane-everyday-life-bethany-von-steinbergs

• Book: Succeed – How we can reach our goals, Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.• Book: Be Your Own Brand - A breakthrough strategy for standing out from the

crowd, David McNally & Karl Speak• Book: Strength Finders 2.0, Tom Rath• Online: Strength Finder Assessment Only

www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/Purchase/en-US/Index• Book: Strength Based Leadership, Tom Rath and Barry Conchie

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/seeing-strengths-mundane-everyday-life-bethany-von-steinbergs

https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/Purchase/en-US/Index

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