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Strenghts Based Leadership Strenghts Based Leadership
Aleksandra Dukovska
Hubert Humphrey Fellow 2010/2011
Based on the book Strenghts Based Leadership
Tom Rath &Barry Conchie
• Type of leadership based on strenghts
• Examples of leaders and their strenghts
• Characteristic of strong teams
• Leading with intellection
• Important quotes
Content:
FIRST JUST JUMP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx0mYN32Kps
http://inside.nike.com/blogs/nikewomen-en_GB/2009/10/14/sofia-boutella-on-challenging-yourself
THEN…..
FIND AMONG four domains of leadership strenghts
Executive
Influencing
Relationship building
Strategic thinking
FROM
EXECUTIVE
Example: Wendy Koop
Chief Executive and Founder
TEACH FOR AMERICA
Strenght How to cover educational inequity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV2MjKWThtQ&feature=related
Executive
Types of people
Achiever, arranger, belief, consistency, deliberative, discipline, focus, responsibility, restorative
INFLUENCING Example: Simon Cooper
President of the Ritz Carlton
Challenge: how to take one of the world’s greatest brands to a new level of excellence
He asked a rock-star and philanthropist Bono to join a morning meeting with housekeeping staff
Goal: doing little things like this to win others
•Activator, command, communication, competition, maximizer, self-assurance, significance, woo
Influencing• Type of people
Activator, command, communication, competition, maximizer, self-assurance, significance, woo
Relationship Building
Example: Mervyn Davies
Strenght: To build an organization that had a “heart and a soul”
Relationship Building
• Davies had to build an extraordinarily diverse leadership team
People with different backgrounds and personalities
Relationship Building
Relationship Building
Type of people
Adaptability, futuristic, positivity, relator, learner
Strategic thinking
Example: Brad Anderson
Chief Executive officer Best Bay
Specialty: Anderson would simply disappear for weeks on end in search of new ideas
Strategic thinking
• Top five strengths: context, ideation, input, learner, connectedness
• He read everything from Rolling Stone to historical biographies
• Attend non-electronics conferences in search of bigger ideas
He brought outside experts to challenge Best Bay way of thinking to the point where
It was “radically complained about my peers”
Strategic thinking
“I find amazing that I can be fifty- eight years old and seem to know less every day. No matter how much you learn, it just continues to open up more substantial questions and relationships”-Anderson
THINK AND GROW
NEW TEAM
Characteristic of strong teams
Conflict doesn’t destroy strong team
Focus is on the results
Strong teams prioritize what’s best for the organization and they move forward
Characteristic of Strong teams
Members committed to personal life
Strong teams embrace diversity
Strong teams are magnet for talent
Leading with intellectionProvide stability
Help others to understand your need for solitude and space to think
Share your mental steps so others don’t worry that your thinking lost foundation
Leading with intellection
Be honest to admit that you are still learning
Respect knowledge that is superior to your own
Leading with intellection
“ Building a strong team within an organization requires the same basic ingredients of a successful soccer squad” – former UN Secretary General Kofi Anan
FIND
BEFORE EVERYTHING JUST