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StrengthsFinder 2.0

Maximizing our Strengths and Team Performance

Positivity Individualization Achiever Strategic Learner

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Why

Strengths?

Strengths

Defined

Individual &

Team Data

Applications

& Leverage

ROAD MAP FOR THE SESSION

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“Most Americans do not know what their

strengths are. When you ask them, they

look at you with a blank stare, or they

respond in terms of subject knowledge,

which is the wrong answer.”

-Peter Drucker

Strengths


StrengthsFinder

• Created by Dr. Donald Clifton, “Father of Strengths-Based Psychology

• Gallup introduced online assessment in 2001

• 34 possible “Themes” encompassing

combination of Talents + Knowledge + Skills

• 33,390,720 distinct possible Top 5 Themes

Gallup’s Inspiration


Do you agree with the following statement:

“At work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best everyday.”

Why Strengths?

Strengths-based development

increases in engagement…


Intent-to-Stay

…and retention of team members.

…without Strengths-Based Development

…with Strengths- Based Development

10x increase

…without Strengths-Based Development

…with Strengths- Based Development

2.3x increase

Why Strengths?

Using Strengths

I am good at what I do

My work is energizing

I look forward to my job

Time goes quickly

I am enjoyable to be around

I treat customers, co-workers,

friends well

Not Using Strengths

I don’t excel at my work

My work is tiring

I dread my job

Time drags on

I have few positive, creative

moments

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Focusing on strengths dramatically impacts everyday life at work.


Why

Strengths?

Strengths

Defined

Individual &

Team Data

Applications

& Leverage


Strengths Defined

Strengths are a combination of your talent, knowledge, and skills.


Skills The steps of an activity1 or the ability to

conduct an activity

Knowledge Facts and lessons learned1

Talent Naturally recurring patterns of thought,

feeling or behavior1 that can be

productively applied

Strengths

+

+

Source: 1) Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton, Now Discover Your Strengths (New York, NY: The Free Press, 2001) 29.

Visual: Brad Pugh, The Fit Factors (Atlanta, GA: Strengths Publishing, 2012), 22.


Why

Strengths?

Strengths

Defined

Individual &

Team Data

Applications

& Leverage



Individual Strengths


An Example: Individual Strengths

Positivity

Individualization

Achiever

Strategic

Learner

Director of Planned

& Major Giving

Potential Areas of

Contribution StrengthsFinder

Themes

• Providing Feedback

• Crisis Management

• Onboarding

• Delegating & building

specialized teams.

• Goal-setting

• Strategic Planning

• Donor Strategies

• Keeping ahead of

fundraising trends

• Developing his team


Team Strengths Data

Defining Team Strengths


How are Strengths distributed across a team?

Based on the collective Strengths, in which sort of activities is the

team most likely to excel or feel challenged?

How can we leverage StrengthsFinder insights to work together

more productively?

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Leadership Domains


Achiever

Arranger

Belief

Consistency

Deliberative

Discipline

Focus

Responsibility

Restorative

Analytical

Context

Futuristic

Ideation

Input

Intellection

Learner

Strategic

Adaptability

Developer

Connectedness

Empathy

Harmony

Includer

Individualization

Positivity

Relator

Activator

Command

Communication

Competition

Maximizer

Self-Assurance

Significance

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Three Development Teams: Many Strengths!



Environmental

Development

Team

EXECUTING

25%

INFLUENCING

6%

RELATIONSHIP

BUILDING

34%

STRATEGIC

THINKING

35%

Environmental Development Team

Leadership Domains


Percentage of Total Represented Skills

Strategic Thinking

Influencing

Executing

Relationship Building

69% of team’s skills fall in Strategic

Thinking and Relationship Building

35%

25% 6%

34%

Environmental Development Team

Strengths: Total Distribution


Strategic Thinking

Relationship-Building

Influencing

Executing

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

20


Higher Education

EXECUTING

22%

INFLUENCING

17%

RELATIONSHIP

BUILDING

31%

STRATEGIC

THINKING

30%

Higher Education

Leadership Domains



Strategic Thinking

Influencing

Executing




30%

22% 17%

31%

Higher Education



Strategic Thinking


Influencing

Executing

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8


SOCIAL SERVICE

EXECUTING

31%

INFLUENCING

14%

RELATIONSHIP

BUILDING

36%

STRATEGIC

THINKING

20%

Social Service

Leadership Domains



Strategic Thinking

Influencing

Executing


67% of team’s skills fall in

Executing and Relationship Building

20%

31%

14%

36%

Social Service



Strategic Thinking


Influencing

Executing

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

Entire Group

Leadership Domains



Strategic Thinking

Influencing

Executing




29%

25%

13%

33%

Entire Group



Strategic Thinking


Influencing

Executing

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

ABUNDANCE & SCARCITY OF TALENT

Bar charts demonstrate an uneven distribution of talents across the group.


But we have few with:

• Focus

• Self-Assurance

• Command

• Competition

• Significance

• Discipline

• Activator

Our team has many with:

• Learner (53)

• Responsibility (49)

• Achiever (48)

• Input (38)

• Strategic (38)

• Relator (36)

• Positivity (34)

• Empathy (31)

• Harmony (31)


Why

Strengths?

Strengths

Defined

Individual &

Team Data

Applications

& Leverage


Discussion

1. What initial conclusions might we draw from these initial data? What

sort of activities are these teams most likely to excel in or feel

challenged by?

2. What are the implications/applications of these data for how we

might manage and motivate these advancement teams?

3. How might we create a work culture that celebrates strengths?


Closing


What is your key takeaway from the session today?

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