Growing as a Leader through your Strengths

A Mindset to Guide you During your Time at Gies

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Participant Instructions (Slides Off)

Reminders for when we get started

1-videos on

2-active participation is key

3-let's have some fun

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1. Think of a time where you succeeded at something.

2. Write out the specifics of the scenario:

• Who was involved in this situation and how did you work with others?

• What was the scenario? Specifically, write out each aspect of the scenario (what was expected of you, what steps you took to be successful, etc.)

• Where did this event occur?

• Why did you think success was important?

• When did this occur?

• How did you go about achieving success?

Take approximately 5 minutes to reflect and take notes on this scenario.

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Positive Psychology

The study of positive traits, the study of positive institutions, the study of positive emotions

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"Nurturing positive emotion, identifying strengths, and fostering virtue in people and institutions leads toward a path of sustainable happiness rather than short lived pleasure"

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Why CliftonStrengths?

...increased self knowledge/awareness

...6x more likely to do what they do best

...6x more likely to be engaged at work or in school

...3x more likely to have an excellent quality of life

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talent+knowledge+skills=strength

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The Strengths Philosophy

• Top achievers fully recognize their talents and build on them to develop strengths

• Top achievers apply their greatest talents in roles that best suit them, and subsequently partner with those to tackle tasks that do not suit them.

• Top achievers invent ways to apply their greatest talents to their achievement tasks. They use them to overcome obstacles and invent new ways of capitalizing on them.

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Underline anything you agree with
Cross out disagreements
Circle the things that are most accurate

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Understanding your Strength Profile

Breakout Discussion #1

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Breakout Discussion Recap (slides off)

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Breakout #2

Your Strengths and your Critical Activities

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Breakout #3

Scavenger Hunt

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Wrap Up

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"A leader needs to know his/her strengths as a carpenter knows his tools, or as a physician knows the instruments at her disposal. What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths-and can call on the right strength at the right time. This explains why there is no definitive list of characteristics that describes all leaders."

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