strengths intro san jose

Strengths Based Leadership

for the Engaging Parish

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What is Your Experience?

• When have you faced a challenge for which you did not feel equipped? What made the task difficult for you? How did you complete the task?

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• When have you faced a challenge for which you knew you had just what was needed? What within yourself did you draw upon? What was the result?

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Created in God's Image, !Called to Holiness

• “Unless people know the grandeur for which they

are made, they cannot reach fulfillment and

their lives will be incomplete. Nor will they know that they are called into interpersonal union

with God and each other.”

(Go and Make Disciples, 5)

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Stewards of All We Are

Members of the Body !of Christ, the Church

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Clifton StrengthsFinder

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• Donald Clifton, PhD • What would happen if we studied what is right with

people? • Strengths Philosophy • Use talents as the bases for consistent achievement of

excellence • Individuals are able to gain far more effectiveness when

they expand effort to build on their greatest talents, rather than when they spend a comparable amount of effort to fix their weaknesses

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Not Using Strengths

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• 6 times as likely to be disengaged !

• Dread going to work !

• Have negative interactions with colleagues !

• Achieve less !

• Have fewer and less creative moments !

• Earn less money

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Becoming All God Intended for You to Be

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Clifton StrengthsFinder

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Web based tool based on 30 years of research with over 2 million people in 25 countries- 177 items !Identifies 34 themes or talents !Identifies top 5 signature themes !Results are reliable from about age 15 on !One theme is not more valuable than others- there are many different gifts, but the same source

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Insights into your Strengths, think about…

You tend to enjoy and excel at what comes naturally to

you…

…and are drained and frustrated by tasks that are not enjoyable or natural

A Great Day

A Bad Day

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Natural or innate way of thinking, feeling, or behaving

Consistent, near perfect performance in an activity you enjoy

How Gallup Defines Talents & Strengths

TALENT

STRENGTH

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What You Do Best is VERY Unique

• 1 in 275,000 chance of meeting someone with your “Top 5”

• 1 in 33 million chance of meeting someone in your lifetime with “Top 5” in same order

• 1 in 447 trillion meeting someone with your 10 in same order.

You are uniquely created

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Discovering Talents

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1 in

295,232,799,039,604,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 !

U.S 316.684,301 World 7,111,553,348 1:35pm September 15,2013

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Incorrect Assumptions

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If you try hard enough, you can do anything! !

If you want it badly enough, you can make it happen! !

If you dream it, you can achieve it!

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Correct Assumptions

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Some behaviors can be learned, but many are impossible to learn. !

Finding weaknesses prevent failure, but don’t necessarily lead to excellence. !

You will be successful being who you are, not what you do!

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5 Clues into Talents….

1. What kinds of activities are you naturally drawn to?

2. What kinds of activities do you seem to pick up quickly?

3. In what activities did the “steps” come automatically?

4. In what activities have you just “lost track of time?”

5. During what activities have you had moments when you were asked “how did you do that? or when you said “When can I do that again?”

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Be the Star God Has

Gifted You to Be!

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It’s Fiesta Time!

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The 4 Fold Character of the Steward:

Return the gifts to God with increase

Share God’s gifts lovingly

Receive God’s gifts gratefully

Develop God’s gifts responsibly

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It’s a Cyclical Process

RECEIVE God's gifts gratefully Discovery & Acceptance

…a desire to NUTURE God's gifts responsibly

Exploration and Expansion “What might be”

…a call to SHARE God's gifts justly/sacrificially Partnership and Collaboration

...RETURN God's gifts abundantly "Glad and Generous Hearts”

Positive Core

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