Strengths-Based Leadership

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Strengths Based

Leadership

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Introductions

• Name

• Company / Title / Role

• Your #1 character strength

• What are you hoping to learn today?

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Handout

• ViaMe!TM Character Strengths

• Scenarios – Applying Strengths

• Virtues – Classification of Strengths

• The 5 Happiness Strengths

• Resources

24 Character Strengths

• Signature Strengths

strongest and most natural

• Middle Strengths

situational

• Lesser Strengths

least naturally occurring but still fundamental

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A Little Creativity…

1. If you had an extra two hours today,what would you do with it?

2. What is your definition of fun?

3. Draw a picture that represents yourtop strength.

The Science of Character

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The Science of Character

• Who do you admire and why?

“Admiration is the first stair toward tryingyour wings.” Pepper Blair

Partner Up

• Choose one of your signature strengths

• How do you use this strength?• At work• At home• With friends

• How do people respond to you when you use this strength?

• What does it look like when you overuse this strength?

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Positive Psychology

• In the early 2000s, a 3-year project involving 55distinguished scientists was launched.

• A study of character traits throughout time.

• Chris Peterson and Martin Seligman

• VIA Classification of character strengths & virtues

24 Character Strengths

• What is best in you!

• Morally and universally valued

• Encompass our capacities for helping ourselvesand others

• Produce positive effects when we express them

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Using Your CharacterStrengths Leads To:

• More positive emotion

• More engagement

• Better relationships

• More meaning

• More accomplishments

6 Virtue Categories

• Wisdom

• Courage

• Humanity

• Justice

• Temperance

• Transcendence

www.viacharacter.org

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Wisdom & Knowledge

• Cognitive strengths that entail the acquisitionand use of knowledge

www.viacharacter.org

Courage

• Emotional strengths that involve the exercise ofwill to accomplish goals in the face ofopposition, external or internal

www.viacharacter.org

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Humanity

• Interpersonal strengths that involve tending andbefriending others

www.viacharacter.org

Justice

• Civic strengths that underlie healthycommunity life

www.viacharacter.org

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Temperance

• Strengths that protect against excess

www.viacharacter.org

Transcendence

• Strengths that forge connections to the largeruniverse and provide meaning

www.viacharacter.org

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Reflect briefly…

• Think about a time, recently or awhile back,in which you were happy and fully engaged inyour life, work, and play.

Write it down…

• How were you taking action during thistime?

• What were you doing that contributed tothis happiness and engagement?

• What character strengths do you think youwere frequently using at this time?

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ScenariosUsing Signature Strengths

• Scenario #1

Marketing Firm & Restaurant

• Scenario #2

Private College & Strategic Planning Team

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Scenario Discussion Results

• What was your approach?

• How did you use everyone’s signaturestrengths?

• What did you learn from this activity?

5 Happiness Strengths

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Look Back At…

1. If you had an extra two hours today, what wouldyou do with it?

2. What is your definition of fun?

3. Draw a picture that represents your top strength.

4. Who do you admire and why?

5. Reflection…happy and fully engaged.

Your Pearl for Today

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Write it down.

What learning will you apply in the next week?

Make it happen.

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Comment Card

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