CliftonStrengths
Jeff Yacup
Recapping Last Week
Leadership is...
a process of influence that requires people working together to achieve goals
effective leaders utilize a range of skills including effective communication (verbal, non verbal, listening), empathy, flexibility, inspiring and motivating others, etc.
Expectations...
from facilitator...
allow space for creativity, challenging, encourage dialogue, don't be a drag, make it applicable to real life, energetic, introduce new concepts, encourage us to reach goals
from each other...
communicate, work together, challenge and support, respectful, openness to new ideas, judgement free, have fun...
we're all in this togetehr!
Functional Teams
Talent
Lineup
Positive Psychology
The study of positive traits, the study of positive institutions, the study of positive emotions
"Nurturing positive emotion, identifying strengths, and fostering virtue in people and institutions leads toward a path of sustainable happiness rather than short lived pleasure"
talent+knowledge+skills=strength
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.
Reviewing
Your
Strengths
Scavenger
Hunt
Your Strengths and your Critical Activities
Domains of Talents
- Executing-they know how to make things happen. Leaders with this area, have the ability to implement solutions, and turn ideas into reality.
- Influencing- they are able to help their team reach a broader audience. They are always selling the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization. These people ensure the group is heard.
- Relationship Building-they are the essential glue to hold the team together. Without these people, the team is a group of individuals. These individuals are able to create groups/teams that are great than the sum of the parts.
- Strategic Thinking-they are the people who keep us all focused on what could be. They absorb and analyze information to assist the team in making a better decision with a focus to the future.
"if you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything"
Thought Experiment
Wrap Up
BioE Session 2: Introduction and Overview of CliftonStrengths
By Jeff Yacup
BioE Session 2: Introduction and Overview of CliftonStrengths
Participants in this session will complete CliftonStrengths prior to attending the session. During the session participants will receive a general overview of the strengths philosophy and positive psychology. Participants will also participate in interactive activities that will help them to better understand their strengths and how to leverage them in working in groups and teams
