Improving Performance Through Strength

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Improving Performance Through Strength
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Todays Purpose

• Learn about Strengths-based Development
• Identify personal strengths using Gardners
  Multiple Intelligences
• Consider other avenues to identify strengths,
  including the StrengthsFinder
• Explore how these concepts can be used in the
  workplace and in our life

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Why Strengths?

• Each persons talents are enduring and unique

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Why Strengths?

• Our greatest room for growth comes from our
  greatest strengths

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Wed all be perfect if we could just get rid of
our weaknesses
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Lets let our strengths ruleand move our
weaknesses to the background
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What should we do differently?

• Increase our understanding of our
  strengthsindividually and collectively
• Find ways to improve on and use these strengths
  on a regular basis

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Identifying Our StrengthsA History
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A Closer Look at Multiple Intelligences
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Multiple Intelligences

• Linguistic word smart
• Logical-mathematical numbers smart
• Spatial picture smart
• Bodily-Kinesthetic body smart
• Musical music smart
• Interpersonal people smart
• Intrapersonal self smart
• Naturalist nature smart

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Activity 1 Lets Explore

• Find a partner
• Begin by sharing your three intelligences
• Then answer this question

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Activity 1 Lets Explore

• Think of how youve used one of these strengths
  to achieve success in lifedescribe a story or
  situation that offers a specific illustration.
  This should be an example which youre proud to
  share, and which shows off the best of who you
  are. Tell your partner this story. Do not be
  humble!
• You each have 5 minutes

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Activity 2Up a Notch

• Working with the same Partner
• Brainstorm on this question
• Review your listidentify a strength that is
  under used by comparison. How might you
  increase the use of this strength in your daily
  work or personal life?
• You have 10 minutes

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StrengthsFinder
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StrengthsFinder

• Based on research by the Gallup Organization
• Yet another way to examine our strengths
• StrengthsFinder identifies five particular
  strengths from among the potential 34 that
  research has identified

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StrengthsFinder

• Achiever
• Activator
• Adaptability
• Analytical
• Arrange
• Belief
• Command
• Communication
• Competition
• Connectedness
• Consistency
• Context

• Deliberative
• Developer
• Discipline
• Empathy
• Focus
• Futuristic
• Harmony
• Ideation
• Includer
• Individuation
• Input
• Intellection

• Learner
• Maximizer
• Positivity
• Relator
• Responsibility
• Restorative
• Self-Assurance
• Significance
• Strategic
• Woo

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Your Challenge

• Continue the Strengths reflection and action
• Increase your knowledge of your personal
  strengths
• Identify ways you can use these strengths even
  more!

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Theres more

• Positive Organizational Development
• Positive Psychology
• focuses on the dynamics that lead to developing
  human strength, producing resilience and
  restoration, fostering vitality, and cultivating
  extraordinary individuals, units and
  organizations.

Kim Cameron University of Michigan School of
Business
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• Thank you!