Hello!

My Name is:

My Five Signature Themes

Are:
Strengths Based
Development
Seminar Leader: Susan Thomas

Strategic
Empathy
Individualization
Maximizer
Ideation

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Focus on YOU!
Name?

What you get paid to do?

Which Theme fits you like a

glove?

(Intro)
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Gallup asked the following question

How many of you

get to do what you
do best everyday at work?

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Do You Use Your Strengths Every Day?

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Human Psychology

Deficit Approach Strengths Based Approach

Study what is wrong with Study what is right with

people people

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Performance Management Strategy

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Change of Focus

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What Does Performance Improvement
Mean to Most People?

Fixing Weaknesses!
Gallup asked the following question
Which would help you be more successful in your life
knowing what your weaknesses are and attempting to
improve your weaknesses?
or
knowing what your strengths are and attempting to
build on your strengths?

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

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 StrengthsFinder Assessment

Identifies ones themes of talent

(dominant patterns of thinking, feeling behaving)

These themes are areas where there is the

greatest potential to develop strength

Can be developed into strengths when

supplemented with relevant knowledge and
skills

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Maximizing Talent
We can maximize the talents of others (and ourselves) by
setting them up for success.

Knowing someones strengths can tell us a lot about the way

they execute, influence, build relationships, and solve
problems.

When we know someones areas of excellence we can help

them use their strengths by positioning them in situations or
with others where those strengths can be alive.

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Five Clues to Talent
What are you naturally inquisitive about? (Yearning)

What activity are you engaged in when

the time flies by? (Timeless)

What activity gives you a great deal

of satisfaction?

What do you pick up rapidly?

What can you do to near perfection?

(How did I do that)

(Complete work page)

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StrengthsFinder Reflection
After reading your Signature Themes Report, complete the
following questions:
Which of your Signature Themes describe you best?

Which of your Signature Themes do you use most

frequently?

Were you surprised by anything in the report?

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Peak Performance
Recall a personal accomplishment (job or personal)
something you feel proud of.

Break down the steps to success, the outcomes

achieved, and the skills required.

Now, consider the Strength Finder themes you

utilized to achieve this success.

(Exercise)
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Signature Themes and How You Use Them *

Why Its a Strength

Description/ When/Where I
(What does it
Strengths Definition of the Recently Used
enable/empower
Strength This Strength
me to do?)

Set up a workshop for

Activator Move to action quickly Make quick decisions
staf

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 Clarifying the Language
The key to building strength is to first identify your
dominant themes or talents (naturally occurring
thoughts, feelings and actions)

Strength = talent + knowledge x skill

A strength is the ability to provide consistent,

near-perfect performance in a given activity.

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Integration of Strengths
Workplace: increases in employee engagement and
productivity (do what I do best)

Education: improved attendance, grades,

enthusiasm, options

Relationships: optimize team relationships and

importance

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Talent Line-Up

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Investing in Strengths Drives Engagement

Improvement %

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Got Engagement?
Engaged
These employees are loyal and productive. They are likely to stay with their
company for at least a year. They are less likely to have accidents on the job
and to steal.
Not Engaged
These employees may be productive, but are not psychologically connected
to their company. They are more likely to miss work days and to leave.
Actively Disengaged
These employees are physically present but psychologically absent. They are
unhappy with their work situation and insist on sharing this unhappiness with
colleagues.

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Disengaged?

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 Workplace Teams
Staf participating in strengths based development
programs widely report an increased understanding and
respect for their co-workers, and that they work together
better as a result of knowing, accepting, and working to
develop the strengths that their peers bring to the table

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Treasure Hunt

Name Name of Theme Benefit of the Theme

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The Four Domains

Strategic
Executing Influencing Relationship Building
Thinking

Achiever Activator Adaptability Analytical

Arranger Command Connectedness Context
Belief Communication Developer Futuristic
Consistency Competition Empathy Ideation
Deliberative Maximizer Harmony Input
Discipline Self-Assurance Includer Intellection
Focus Significance Individualization Learner
Responsibility Woo Positivity Strategic
Restorative Relator

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Mapping your team

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Team Grid
Understanding the theme dynamics of your team helps
you to be a more successful and productive team.

Acknowledge team's strengths

Consider assignments/roles based on strengths

Opportunities that your team may have for partnerships

within the team

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Complementary Partnerships
Partnerships are forming all around us every day. They are
formed for a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons
include:

To make up for a lesser talent

To take over where one person leaves of
To enhance what one person already possesses

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Different Strengths

The (Very Diferent)Strengths of

Leaders
Wendy Kopp Brad Anderson Simon Cooper Mervyn Davies
Founder and CEO CEO President Chairman
Teach for America Best Buy The Ritz Carlton Standard Chartered

Achiever Context Maximizer Achiever

Competition Ideation Woo Futuristic
Responsibili Input
Arranger Positivity
ty Learner
Relator Connectedn Activator Relator
Strategic ess Significance Learner

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Here is what Gallup knows
about top achievers:

fully recognize their talents and build on them to

develop strengths

apply their greatest talents in roles that best suit

them.

invent ways to apply their greatest talents to their

achievement tasks. (StrengthsQuest, p.8)

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The Potential

What might happen if departments developed

strengths to build everyones potential in
becoming the best of the best in the process
of learning, working and living?

Camel video http://strengths.ning.com/video/20

97137:Video:2302

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Managing Challenges
Strengths conversation
Get the right education and training
Leverage your strengths to manage a weakness
Partner with someone
Just do it!
Dont do it

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Resources

www.strengthsquest.com
On the Purchase tab

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Whats Next?

Share your results with a friend/colleague

One idea you will take with you
Visit www.strengthsquest.com
Events

Educator Resources

Purchasing Information

Strengths School: www.strengths.org
Strengths Network: www.strengths.ning.com

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