strenghts based teamwork
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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, [email protected]
Strengths and Leadership; Presented by: Jeremy David Jones
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Thanks For Your Attention
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