strengthsfinder a practical tool for: gaining self awareness increasing personal performance...

StrengthsfinderA practical tool for:

Gaining self awarenessIncreasing personal performance

Effective interviewing

The Coach

Bob HakesGeneral Manager, Kemps• Strengths as a company culture

1.Context – insights from the past

2.Individualization – interpersonal uniqueness

3.Maximizer - excellence, next level

4.Arranger – shuffle, effective flexibility

5. Relator – engaged, one on one

Overview

Gaining self awareness• Development short cuts• Top line intro to Strengthsfinder

Increasing personal performance• Strength providers• Finding your flow

Effective interviewing• Strengths, substance and spiritually-centering questions• Interview prep • Over prepare, then go with the flow

Development short cuts

Assessment

Support

Challenge

Support• Coaching• Mentoring• Friend• Peers

Self awareness• Strengthsfinder• Bar-On• Meyers Briggs

Challenge (interview examples) • Roles• Setbacks• Projects

Gaining self awareness

Strengthsfinder overview• Unique--millions of combinations

Your signature thumb print (everyone is different) How your energy and excellence are best expressed

• Positive Psychology Build on what works

• Practical tool Vernacular to identify talents Develop talents Leverage strengths


Strengthsfinder overview• Talent = Latent Strength• Strength = Applied Talent• Top 5 vs. 34• Top 5 = 80% of what you do naturally• Another 20%, so probably a #6, 7, or 8 in play• Strengths are only part of all the factors of performance

Values Character Social EQ Maturity


Strengths: in a word/phraseAchiever – drive to accomplish, closure in the day Futuristic – sees an inspiring vision of the future

Activator – act/decide, proactive in the moment Harmony – consensus builder, great at assists

Adaptability – mold/flex, radically in the moment Ideation – innovate, sees break thru ideas

Analytical – microscopic seeing, prove it to me Includer – widen the circle, outgoing team builder

Arranger – shuffle, organize, effective flexibility Individualization – discriminating, uniqueness

Belief – values, transcendent cause Input – hyper curious, encyclopedic knowledge

Command – will, influence, lead Intellection – deep study, simplify complexity (E=mc2)

Communication – story teller, translator Learner – drive to competence, can do, tackle new things

Competition – win, compare Maximizer – excellence, leverage, next level

Connectedness – transcendent meaning, 360* seeing Positivity – enthusiasm, fun, contagious optimism

Consistency – fairness, equitable, guidelines/SOP Relator – engaged, friendship, one on one

Context – sees/learns insights from the past Responsibility – deep personal ownership, follow thru

Deliberative – careful, close to the vest, sees obstacles Restorative – fix, return to prior functioning

Developer – encouraging, sees potential, next step Self assurance – self confidence, sense of self

Discipline – create structure/order to gain efficiency Significance – count, excels in spot light

Empathy – feelings count, sense feelings of others Strategic – sees optimal path, recognizes big pic patterns

Focus – create structure/order to accomplish goal Woo – interpersonal persuasion, influence


Strengths organization

Traction Lifestyle Wild Card(Great at initial first steps, get movement, they have (These themes add seasoning/flavor to (These themes fit well with the other 32spikes on them and are pervasive to others). the other strengths, orientation to life). and can’t really over function).

Activator Adaptability CommunicationCommand Belief LearnerFocus Consistency

DisciplineDriving Harmony Problem Solving(Keep initiative progressing at rapid pace, more personal). Positivity (These strengths find solutions and next steps).

Achiever Responsibility AnalyticalCompetition ArrangerMaximizer Seeing DeliberativeSelf-assurance (Show how we view the world around us). InputSignificance Analytical Restorative

Connectedness Interpersonal Context(Working with and approach to others, relationship building). Deliberative Problem IdentificationDeveloper Futuristic (Brain stormers, pattern recog, clean sheet of paper).

Empathy Ideation IdeationIncluder Strategic IntellectionIndividualization StrategicMaximizer RelatorWoo


Effective strengths collaboration

• How to utilize diverse strengths– Gain a head start– Consider all the issues– More well rounded

Increasing personal performance

Greg’s Top Five• Woo• Strategic• Positivity• Self-Assurance• Activator

- Great networker, very persuasive, influence peddler.

- Powerful selling configuration.- Ideal job – executive level selling.

Bob’s Top Five• Context• Individualization• Maximizer• Arranger• Relator

- Strong interpersonal strengths, practical problem solver.- Powerful configuration for

leveraging people’s abilities.- Ideal job – team leader, develop

people.


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Contrasting strengthsrub vs collaborate


Find your flow

• Leverage strengths, experience, skills, knowledge.

• Good for the company and good for you.

Good for company

Good for you

optimal


Strengths & value creation

1. Strength-surfacing questions. A. What do you yearn to do?B. What kind of work have people told you in the past sets you apart?C. What are you naturally drawn to, even when it’s not part of your role?D. What do you pick up on quickly, with untutored excellence or aptitude?E. When was the last time you felt you were in the zone? F. What brings you deep satisfaction?G. Describe a time you added exceptional value and got results?

2. What common threads emerge from your answers above? 3. What do these common threads say about your unique value?


Substance & capacity questions

1. What are you passionate about?2. What are your non-negotiables?3. Tell me about the last mistake you made?4. What was the last difficult decision you made? What made it difficult?5. Describe a time you took an unpopular position, stood up for the underdog or

backed someone who was wrongly accused.6. What circumstances bring out positive emotion (Eustress) in you? Same

question for negative emotion (distress). 7. What have you found to be the keys to managing your emotional weather

patterns?8. Describe a time you got results by working with someone with complementary

strengths and skills. What worked? Were there any frustrations?


Spiritually centering questions

1. What do you feel God has prepared for you? How are you doing? Hopeful? Despair?

2. What connection do you find between God, your strengths and your best & true self?

3. Describe a time in the past when God spoke clearly to you? What were your surroundings? What did it feel like?

4. How can your strengths become virtuous? What is the value of virtuous strengths?

5. How do you refuel spiritually?


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Interview structureBusiness Summary

Why did your job exist?How did your job drive profit for the company?

30 seconds

Value PropositionWhat unique value did you bring to your job?

What were you known for?30 seconds

STAR examplesSUMMARIZE the situationDescribe the TASK at hand

What ACTION steps were taken What were the RESULTS

90 seconds



STAR examples Principles• Examples give you credibility• Your accomplishments from the past will be repeated in the future

Areas of what countsTasks that demonstrate:1.Initiative and follow through2.Taking a leadership role3.Effective problem solving4.Effective communication – persuading a person or group of people5.Working with others collaboratively 6.Creativity and innovation7.Results achieved through priority setting8.Technical mastering



STAR example worksheet

Summarize summarize the situation, pithy facts and embellish

Task insert what counts for the task at hand

Action insert the strength leveraged during your action step

Results be clear, finish strong, primary and secondary



STAR example worksheet

Summarize Needed team approval on new business initiative/proposal

Task Communicating, influence, working with others

Action Individualization – during presentation used language that uniquelyspoke to each decision maker, pre-presentation provided

information to slower decision maker, checked in often to clarify

Results Initiative approved - Created excitement, generated momentum



Over prepare, then read & react



Meeting structureMeeting I.

Review Strengthsfinder top 5 and strengths-surfacing answers. Develop a clear value proposition. Introduce substance & capacity and spiritual-centering questions.

Meeting II. Play back your understanding of strengths and value proposition. Review substance & capacity and spiritual-centering answers. Intro biz summary and value proposition.

Meeting III. Tie together the three Q&A worksheets. Practice biz summary and value proposition. Intro STAR examples.

Meeting IV. Review completed STAR worksheet. Practice two examples.



Coaching information

• Coaching definition: helping someone meet the requirements of the game.

• Coaches: Dawn Edwards, Bob Hakes

• Next steps if interested:

Read “Now Discover Your Strengths” by Buckingham and Clifton.Take the Strengthsfinder test to determine your top 5.Fill out the strength and value creation worksheet (slide 13).Contact Bud Becker at [email protected]


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