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Strengths Based Leadership

ALVAREZ PORTER GROUP EMPOWERING LEADERS IGNITING ORGANIZATIONSTIONS

Allison Porter

ALVAREZ PORTER GROUP ALVAREZPORTER.COM

Making extraordinary things happen by focusing on the strengths and potential in yourself and your team.

Strengths Based Leadership

When you evaluate your own performance….

Do you think about what you did really well, or do you focus on the mistakes you made?

When you focus on staff performance, what do you wonder about more…

What are they doing

right?

What are they doing

wrong?

…Potential ++ & Strengths

…Potential -- & Weaknesses

As much or more than…

What might be possible if we focused on…

What fears does it raise?

Try your hand

•  More room for improvement •  More energy for learning •  In your area of strength

Looking for success

Positive Deviance study in Vietnam http://www.positivedeviance.org/about_pd/case_studies.html

The case for strengths-based leadership

The Pygmalion Effect

The case for strengths-based leadership

Las Vegas Housekeepers Exercise Experiment

Gallup’s Strengthsfinder 34 Strengths n  ACHIEVER n  ARRANGER n  BELIEF n  CONSISTENCY n  DELIBERATIVE n  DISCIPLINE n  FOCUS n  RESPONSIBILITY n  RESTORATIVE n  ACTIVATOR n  COMMAND n  COMMUNICATION

n  COMPETITION n  MAXIMIZER n  SELF-ASSURANCE n  SIGNIFICANCE n  WOO n  ADAPTABILITY n  DEVELOPER n  CONNECTEDNESS n  EMPATHY n  HARMONY n  INCLUDER n  INDIVIDUALIZATION

n  POSITIVITY n  RELATOR n  ANALYTICAL n  CONTEXT n  FUTURISTIC n  IDEATION n  INPUT n  INTELLECTION n  LEARNER n  STRATEGIC

3 tools for focusing on strengths

1.  Listen for potential 2.  Reframe the negative 3.  Follow the energy

Listening for what is possible

Potential

Understand

Agree or Disagree

What’s another way to

look at it?

Reframe – to + 1. From you don’t want to what

you do want 2. Change the point of

comparison 3. Take a longer view

This is something

you do really well!

Follow the energy

Take your idea and run with

“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid” – Audre Lorde

Cast of “Grease” Einstein High School Peter Smeallie, Director

When you dare to be powerful

What is one thing you could do to be more of a strengths-based leader? What questions or concerns do you have about focusing on strengths? What do you like about this way of leading?

allison@alvarezporter.com

ALVAREZ PORTER GROUP EMPOWERING LEADERS IGNITING ORGANIZATIONSTIONS

Allison Porter

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