Project Management Institute | Professional Development Day September 10, 2012

Effective Leaders…

Understand their followers’

needs

Surround themselves with

the right people and then

maximize their team

Know & invest in strengths

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A team is a group of individuals who cooperate and work together to

achieve a given set of objectives or goals (Horodyski, 1995).

Understand and leverage each other’s strengths.

High Performing Teams

What are Strengths?

What are Strengths?

Talents, skills, knowledge, passion …

Simple Math TALENT (a natural way of thinking,

feeling or behaving) X Investment (time spent practicing,

developing your skills, and building your knowledge base)

= Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance)

Talent x Investment = STRENGTH

34 Themes for identifying talents Over 4 million

people have taken this assessment

Gallup

(Page 5-6 in booklet)

Spotting talent and strengths.

Clues Strength Weakness Feel energized/ satisfied by

activity

Feel defensive about

performance

Learn quickly Don’t profit from repeated

experience; suffer burnout;

Glimpses of excellence Consciously think through the

steps of a process; slow to learn

Experience being in the “flow” Experience reduction in

confidence

Look forward to activity Lack futuristic thinking about

activity

Getting individuals in position.

Four Domains of

Leadership Strengths

Executing

Influencing

Relating

Strategic/

Thinking

Executing Domain

Achiever

Arranger

Belief

Consistency

Deliberative

Discipline

Focus

Responsibility

Restorative

Influencing Domain

Activator

Command

Communication

Competition

Maximizer

Self Assurance

Significance

Woo

Relating Domain

Adaptability

Developer

Connectivedness

Empathy

Harmony

Includer

Individualization

Positivity

Relator

Strategic/Thinking Domain

Analytical

Context

Futuristic

Ideation

Input

Intellection

Learner

Strategic

Ready

to fly…

Let’s

Apply!

(Page 7-9)

ACTIVITY

What are your strengths? (Think of “Favorite Project”)

What strengths do you need to surround yourself with? (Minimize weakness)

Describe a current/past project

Share how specific skill sets/talents fit into project.

Bethany Spilde

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