Strengths-Based TeamWork Sepide Pourmarashi

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What Is TEAMWORK?

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What Is TEAMWORK?

A kind of work that blends individual STRENGTHS so that they complement each other, and in doing so brings people together with a sense of friendship and shared vision

So That

strengths applied in a common direction towards meaningful goals.

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Strengths Discovery“Bringing Talent To Life”

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Performance Equation

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PERFORMANCE

Skills

Talent & Type

Knowledge

What you know What you can do

WHO YOU ARE

What Is Talent?

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What Is Talent?

Recurring patterns of thoughts, feeling or behavior

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How Talents Develop?

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A Recipe For Strengths

TALENT X Investment

time spent practicing developing your skills building your knowledge base

= Strength

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What Are Strengths?

By refining our dominant talents with skill and knowledge, we can create strengths : the ability to provide consistent, near-perfect performance in a given activity (Clifton & Harter, 2003)

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Where We Are Now? (Gallup Survey)

What percentage of typical day do you spend playing your strengths?

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“Most of the time: 17%”

“Most of the time: 17%”

Where We Are Now? (Gallup Survey)

Which will help you be most successful? (Weakness Fixing OR Strength Building)

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Weakness Fixing: 59%

Weakness Fixing: 59%

Strengths Building: 41%

Strengths Building: 41%

Strengths Philosophy

“Individuals gain more when they build on their talents, than when they make comparable efforts to improve their areas of weakness” (Clifton & Harter , 2003)

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Weakness Fixing Model

-All behaviors can be learned:• If you try hard enough, you can do it.• If you want it badly enough, you can do it.• If you dream it, you can achieve it.

-Weakness-fixing leads to success.

Frustration(Disappointment) Anger De-motivation Resentment (feeling of ill will)

Lack of employee engagement

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Results Of Weakness Fixing Model

Chance of being engaged at work when the organization does not focus on Strengths? (According To Gallup Survey)

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Results Of Weakness Fixing Model

9%9%

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Strengths Building Model

-Some behaviors can be learned. Many are nearly impossible to learn. There is a difference between talent, skills, and knowledge.

-The best in a role deliver the same outcomes, but use different behaviors.

-Weakness-fixing prevents failure. Strengths-building leads to success.

Strengths Awareness ConfidenceSelf-Efficacy Motivation To Excel

Employee Engagement

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Results Of Strengths Building Model

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Results Of Strengths Building Model

Chance of being engaged at work when the organization focus on Strengths? (According To Gallup Survey)

73%73%

Engagement At Work

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“Our team beat the record again?”

ENGAGED

“Let’s go for lunch early”

NOT-ENGAGED

“Our leadership is

really screwed up”

ACTIVELYDISENGAGED

Knowing Our Strengths

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong…. (Business guru, Peter Drucker 1909-2005)

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What Are Strengths?

Most of us: Little /no answers of strengths Confuse strengths with knowledge Keen awareness of weaknesses (Parents,

Schools, Employers)

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What Are Strengths?

#1: Myth: As you grow, your

personality changes Truth: As you grow, you

become more of who you already are

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What Are Strengths?

#2: Myth: You will grow

the most in your areas of greatest weakness

Truth: You will grow the most in your areas of greatest strengths

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What Are Strengths?

#3: Myth: A good team member

does whatever it takes to help the team

Truth: A good team member deliberately volunteers his strengths to the team most of the time

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What Are Strengths?

Strengths: Before doing an activity: You look forward to do it While doing it: You feel effective After doing it: You feel fulfilled & authentic

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What Are Strengths?

4 S.I.G.N Of Strengths: 1-Success: Self-Efficacy, Activities that

Fulfill and sustain Energize Generate positive feelings

2-Instinct: Activities that You are drawn to You volunteer for You look forward to May be a bit scary

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What Are Strengths?

4 S.I.G.N Of Strengths: 3-Growth: Activities that

Feel easy and effortless Don’t seem to require you to concentrate Make time speed by Bring you happiness

4-Needs: Activities that Seems to fill innate need Feel authentic and correct Feel satisfying Charge your “batteries” 28

Why Focus On Strengths?

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Speed: People operating from strength learn the role faster and adapt to more variance in the role quicker.

Productivity and Precision: People operating from strength produce significantly more at higher quality.

Longevity and Attendance: People operating from strength stay longer, miss less work, and build stronger customer relationships.

Recognizing & Putting Talent To Work

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Nearly a decade ago, Gallup unveiled the result of a landmark 30-year research project that ignited a global conversation on the topic of strengths.

Recognizing & Putting Talent To Work

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Results of the research are 34 themes that were developed that became the common language for talent. These are very specific terms that describe what people do well.

Recognizing & Putting Talent To Work

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

Clifton StrengthsFinder Theme

References:

StrengthsFinder 2.0 ; Tom Rath ; Gallup Press; 2007 Strengths Based Leadership; Tom Rath , Barry Conchie; Gallup Press; 2008 Comprehensive Strengths Based Approach To The First-Year Experience; Laurie

A. Schreiner, Ph.D.; Eileen Hulme, Ph.D.; Azusa Pacific University: 2006 Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience

Building A Strengths-Based Organization (International Facilities Management Association Austin, Texas, May 13, 2010, Melinda Figeley Dean, SPHR

National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers ;August 21, 2006;Omaha, Nebraska

Strengths-Based Performing Teams, Facilitator; Presenter: Chiquita T. Tuttle, MBA, Marketing Management & Health Care Consulting, LLC, Oakland, California 94605, Bananactt@comcast.net

Strengths and Leadership; Presented by: Jeremy David Jones

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Thanks For Your Attention

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