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Creating Our Best SelvesThrough Strengths and WellbeingDiscover Your StrengthsStrengths Quest: Helping Students, Staff, and Faculty AchieveAcademic, Career, and Personal SuccessMaterial included in this handout may not be reproduced or presented withoutexplicit written consent of the Gallup Organization, and the facilitators.
Learning Objectives:After completing this section, students will be able to: Define talent, theme, and strength. Discuss the role that talent and strength play in the success of top achievers. Identify and define, in basic terms, their own themes of talent. Discuss their themes of talent with significant others. Define, in basic terms, the 34 themes of talent. Recognize the unique, but different, talents of others.Activity: Writing Challenge.1.1.2.2.3.3.4.4.5.5.2 Page
Activity: A Time at Your Best - Five Clues to TalentYEARNINGRAPID LEARNINGWhat activities can you notwait to start?What kinds of activities doyou seem to pick up quickly?FLOWIn what activities did you get“lost in the moment”?SATISFACTIONGLIMPSES OFEXCELLENCEWhat activities make youthink, “Whencan I do that again?”During what activities haveyou had moments ofexcellence, when you thought,“How did I do that?”
DVD: The Truth About YouThe truths that allow you to play to your strengths most ofthe timeAs you grow you become more of who you already areYou are going to grow and develop the most in your areas ofstrengthWhat your team needs of you most of all is for you to bring yourstrengths deliberatelyNotes:Teach a person grammar and she will write a sentence,Inspire her to channel her strengths and she will write poetry.-Marcus Buckingham4 Page
Roots of the Strengths Movement Positive Psychology Donald Clifton Gallup Clifton Strengths Finder Marcus BuckinghamDo you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?Your talents can help you develop personally and professionally.Strengths Quest can deepen your relationships by helping you see and value talent inothers.Strengths Quest helps managers understand what energizes and engages people andhow maximizing talent can create a great working environment for their staff oncampus.Effective and productive teams meet their goals and achieve meaningful outcomes bycapitalizing on the diverse talents of their members.Notes:5 Page
What are Strengths and Weaknesses?Strength: The ability to provide consistent, near-perfect performance in a specificactivity.Talent: A natural way of thinking, feeling, behaving.Behavior patterns that make you effectiveThought patterns that make you efficientBeliefs that empower you to succeedAttitudes that sustain your efforts toward achievement and excellenceMotivations that propel you to take action and maintain the energy needed toachieveo You cannot not do ito Talents are potential strengths!oooooTheme: A group of similar talents.Skill: The capacity to perform the functional steps of an activity.Knowledge: What you know, either factually or through awareness gained byexperience.Strength: Produced when talents are refined with knowledge and skill6 Page
Is it strength or is it a weakness?IfI amthinking I am feelingI want toIt is a strengthIt is a weakness I can’t wait to start. I hate to have to do this. This is fun.I could do this forever.This is my callingJust try and stop dentFind a way to do more of it.Learn more about itFind role models to learnfrom.Look for people who arereally good at it. When will this end?This is going to take forever.Thank goodness this is nearly over.Can I sit this one istractedHope I never have to do it again.Get the new guy to do it.Shove it to the right side of the deskand forget it.Do anything else instead. Buckingham, M. (2007). Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance. New York, NY:Free Press, p. 99.“One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of lowcompetence. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence tomediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.”-Peter Drucker7 Page
What Gives You Energy?“Despite the American myth, I cannot be or do whatever I desire – a truism, to besure, but a truism we often defy.Our created natures make us like organisms in an ecosystem: There are some rolesand relationships in which we thrive and others in which we wither and die.”-Parker Palmer, Let Your Life SpeakENERGYOUTCOMESEXPECTATIONS8 Page
Activity: First GlanceWhat was your first reaction to your Strengths Finder results?What new discovery have you made about yourself?What, if anything, surprised you about your results?Have you shared your “Top 5” with anyone? What was their reaction?9 Page
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How unique are you?5,166,449 respondentsStrengths Development FrameworkStrengths AwarenessConfidenceSelf EfficacyMotivation to excelEngagementApply strengths to areas needing improvementGreater likelihood of success12 P a g e
Homework: Treasure HuntTalk to co-workers who have at least one Signature Themedifferent than your own.Jot down the theme you discussed, and at least one benefit ofthat theme.NameThemeOne Benefit of the ThemeWhich theme or themes did you gain a greater appreciation for as a result of this conversation?What did you learn about yourself as a result of this activity?13 P a g e
Activity: Answer the questionUtilizing Strengths language, find a partner and introduce yourself in response tothis greeting:“Nice to meet you. What do you do at South Mountain Community College?”WHY CAN’T THIS LAST FOREVER?Live Your Strengths!Know your top 5Be proud of your top 5Post your top 5Donate your top 5! Donate them every day!Commitments:One of my Signature Theme that I want to learn more about andconsciously apply more oftenOne of my Signature Themes I will donate to my work more oftenthan I do now:One thing I will do differently starting tomorrow:14 P a g e
References:Buckingham, M. & Coffman, C. (1999). First, break all the rules. New York, NY: Simon &Schuster.Buckingham, M. & Clifton, D. (2001). Now, discover your strengths. New York, NY: Simon &Schuster.Buckingham, M. (2005). The one thing you need to know. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.Buckingham, M. (2007). Go put your strengths to work: Six powerful steps to achieveoutstanding performance. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.Buckingham, M. (2008). The truth about you: Your secret to success. Nashville, TN: ThomasNelson Publishers.Buckingham, M. (2008). Find your strongest life: What the happiest and most successfulwomen do differently. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers.Buckingham, M. (2011). Stand out. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishing.Clifton, D. O and Nelson, P. (1995). Soar with your strengths. New York,NY: Dell.Clifton, D. O. and Rath, T. (2004). How full is your bucket? Positive strategies for work and life.Omaha, NE: Gallup Press.Clifton, D. O., LIesveld, C and Winseman, A. L. (2004). Living your strengths: Discover your godgiven talents and inspire your community. Omaha, NE: Gallup Press.Fox, Jennifer, M.Ed. (2008) Your childs strengths: Discover them, develop them, use them. NewYork, NY: Penguin Group.Gallup Youth Development Specialists. Strengths Explorer For Ages 10 to 14. Omaha, NE: GallupPress.Rath, T. & Conchie, B. (2008). Strengths based leadership. New York, NY: Gallup PressRath, T. & Harter, J. (2010). Well being: The five essential elements. New York: NY, Gallup Press.Rath, T. (2006). Vital friends: People you cannot afford to live without. New York: NY, GallupPress.Rutigliano, T & Brim, B. (2010). Strengths based selling. New York, NY: Gallup Press.Wagner, R. & Harter, J. (2006). 12 The Elements of Great Management. New York, NY: GallupPress.Wagner, R. & Mueller, G. (2010). Power of 2: How to Make the Most of Your Partnerships atWork and in Life. New York, NY: Gallup Press.15 P a g e
Web Sites of Interesthttp://strengths.orgThe Clifton Strengths Schoolhttps://www.strengthsquest.comThe Strengths Quest home pagehttp://strengths.gallup.comThe Gallup Strengths home pagehttps://www.strengthsfinder.comThe Strengths 2.0 Web sitehttp://gmj.gallup.comThe Gallup Management Journalhttp://strengths.ning.comStrengths Social Sitehttp://tmbc.comThe Marcus Buckingham CompanyQuestions or FeedbackJulie a.eduScott Geddis602-359-0902scottgeddis@gmail.com16 P a g e
Strengths Quest can deepen your relationships by helping you see and value talent in others. Strengths Quest helps managers understand what energizes and engages people and how maximizing talent can create a great working environment for their staff on campus. Effective and productive
