leveraging your strengths authenticity and vulnerability … · 2019-09-05 · 6 © 2019 menttium...

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Leveraging Your Strengths, Authenticity, and Vulnerability

to Maximize Impact

© 2019 Menttium Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Confidential.

Your Host

Sue Stanek, Ph.D.Menttium Facilitator

“We are born with talents – it is up to us to develop them into strengths.”

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Agenda

• How To:o More effectively know/articulate your strengths

o Better leverage your strengths, authenticity, and vulnerability

o Recognize when your strengths create drag vs thrust

• Voices of Experience• Next Steps

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“At work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day.”

• Strongly Disagree

• Disagree

• 50/50

• Agree• Strongly Agree

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“At work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day.”

1/3 strongly agreed

• 6 times as likely to be engaged at work

• 3 times as likely to have excellent quality oflife

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Leveraging Our Strengths

We do our work:• Better• Faster• Greater – we accomplish

more

With more: • Emotional engagement• Stamina• Creativity

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What Are Your Stand-Out Strengths?

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Articulating Your Strengths

• What is one of your stand-out strengths?

• What is an example of how it made asignificant impact in your job?

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Reflection: Self and Others

1. Ask Yourself• What comes easily to me?• What am I known for? • Tools: MBTI, DISC, Strengths Finder

2. Ask Others• If I gave a TED Talk…• From your perspective…• Seek Feedback proactively, all the time

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Handout

Which Adjectives Describe Me Best?

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Articulating Your Strengths

• Four Categories of Effective Leadership• Executing• Influencing• Relationship Building• Strategic Thinking

• Assessment: Top Five applied to the 4categories

• 40 year study• 10 million people• 34 Themes• Assessment: Top Five

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Effectively Knowing/Articulating Your Strengths

Look for reoccurring

themes

Sharpen your focus

Don't minimize your strengths

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When Strengths Become Weaknesses

UnproductiveNot Valued

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Personal Application

When did one of your strengths become a weakness?

Ex: When my positivity underestimated (missed) the objections we’d encounter on a product launch

“When ….”

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Authenticity & Vulnerability

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Strengths + Authenticity + Vulnerability*

=SIGNIFICANT VALUE

* The courage to show up when you can’t control the outcome.

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Voices of Experience

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Devi ChettyDirector, Retail Payments

Technology ServicesFederal Reserve Bank of

Atlanta

Nick SnoplyDirector, Human Capital

UnitedHealth Group


Everyone’s Optional Strengths

• Being on time

• Strong work ethic

• Positive bodylanguage

• Energy

• Attitude

• Passion

• Being coachable

• Doing extra• Being prepared

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Next Steps

• Review and use the handout• Discuss elements of today’s session that resonate

most in your next mentoring partnership meeting• Leverage resources provided for inspiration and

motivation

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Resources

• Linked In: Seeing Strengths In Mundane Everyday Life

www.linkedin.com/pulse/seeing-strengths-mundane-everyday-life-bethany-von-steinbergs

• Book: Succeed – How we can reach our goals, Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.• Book: Be Your Own Brand - A breakthrough strategy for standing out from the

crowd, David McNally & Karl Speak• Book: Strength Finders 2.0, Tom Rath

• Online: Strength Finder Assessment Only www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/Purchase/en-US/Index

• Book: Strength Based Leadership, Tom Rath and Barry Conchie• Book: Dare to Lead, Brene Brown

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/seeing-strengths-mundane-everyday-life-bethany-von-steinbergs

https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/Purchase/en-US/Index

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