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Leveraging Strengths To Promote Career Success
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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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