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Strengthsfinder for Project Managers

Joining the Strengths Movement

Allyn Bader Barclay

PMP, Trainer and Strengths Coach

Discover You

February 27, 2016

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Agenda

• Start with Strengths; Finish with Talent

• Discovering your Natural Talents

• Benefits of Knowing your Talents

• Productivity; Impact of Strengths

• Strength Themes

• Cracking the Code

• Using your Strengths

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The key to success is to fully understand how to apply your greatest talents and strengths in your everyday life.

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What will happen when we think about what is right with people rather than fixating on what is wrong with them?

Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D. psychologist and business executive (1924-2003)

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Strengths vs Weaknesses

Your Strengths

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Your Weaknesses

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Development Approaches to Personal Development

Conventional Approach:

Maintain each person’s strengths and work on fixing weaknesses.

Strength Based Approach

Focus on each person’s strengths and manage around weaknesses.

IdentifyImprovement Areas

Develop anImprovementPlan

IdentifyTalents

Develop Strengths

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People Who Focus on Using Their StrengthsMaximize Their Potential

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People who learn to use their strengths every day

have 7.8% greater productivity.

Teams who receive strengths feedback have 8.9% greater profitability.


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Everyone Has Talent

Examples of talent include:

• effortlessly and instinctively starting conversations

• thinking in an orderly or timely manner

• being able to easily influence others

• seeing patterns in data

• consistently having a positive outlook on life

Talent is a naturally recurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied.


There is nothing wrong with being aware of our weaknesses and managing them, but our greatest opportunity for success lies in building on our natural talents.

Let’s start now to identify and maximize each person’s talents and strengths.

Start With

TALENT:

Finish With

Strength:

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“I use my strengths every day.”

Print the Following Phrase Three Times:

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34 Talent Themes

“The wonderful thing about talents is that they hold great potential for us. It is through our talents that we can tap into our

greatest potential for success.”


The Anatomy of a Strength

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Talent ( a natural way of thinking,

Feeling, or behaving)

Investment ( time spent practicing,

Developing your skills, and building your knowledgebase)

Strength ( the ability to consistently

Provide near perfect performance)


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Stand Up When…


Your Greatest Talents

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The #1 selling book on

Amazon isn’t a book.

It’s a movement.

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You Know Your Strengths, now what?

Achieving Personal Goals

• Career

• Family

• Recreational Activities

• Volunteer Work

• Sports

Focusing on the Strengths of Others

• Managers

• Project Manager

• Parent

• Spouse

• Friend

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YOUR REPORT IS A BEGINNING, NOT AN END.

NAME IT! CLAIM IT! AIM IT!

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Every leader must always invest in strengths.

“Leaders around the world

are thinking about

empowerment these days,

and there is no more

effective way to empower

people than to see each

person in terms of his or

her strengths.”

Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D.

Father of Strengths-Based Psychology

When leaders focus on individuals’ strengths, their

employees are 8x more likely to be engaged.

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Teams who received

strengths feedback have

8.9% greater profitability.

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Employees who received strengths feedback

have 14.9% lower turnover.

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Sales associates who received

coaching on their strengths

experience 11% higher volume per

customer and a 6% higher closing

percentage on average.

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Managers who predominantly focus on employees’

strengths reduce active disengagement to an

astoundingly low 1%.


Join the movement. Resources available to you.

Start building a strengths-based culture at

GallupStrengthsCenter.com.

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