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Unlocking your team’s success USING THE CLIFTON STRENGTHSFINDER

Leslie Boomer – Gallup Certified Strengths Coach Connectedness l Maximizer l Individualization l Relator l Learner

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Copyright © 2014 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.


The #1 selling book on Amazon isn’t a book.

It’s a movement…

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“What will happen when we think about what is RIGHT with people rather than fixating on what is

WRONG with them?”

Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D. psychologist and business executive 1924-2003

What’s the answer to why building on innate talent is so powerful?Here is a snapshot of the data that started the StrengthsFinder movement: The average reader who began at 90 words per minute – improved to 150 words per minute or 67% In contrast - the above average reader who began at 300 words per minute – improved to 2,900 words per minute or 800%


The #1 selling book on Amazon isn’t a book.

It’s a movement.

Therefore, based on research, the StrengthsFinder movement is about focusing on what is strong, not what is wrong – creating a paradigm shift from remediating weakness to positive strengths-based development. This is so powerful because:

•  Real human development MAXIMIZES human POTENTIAL •  Understanding innate talent and developing your natural strength

improves the way you work and live

The world needs a new way to develop people

Building on your strengths with CSF is the perfect way to stop trying to make people into something they are not and instead, help them become the best version of who they already are

Today you’ll see that the action steps are simple - If you choose to take them they will be transformative


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THE BEST

Businesses

Coaches

Organizations

Partnerships Schools Teams

Become a workplace of choice when you take steps to join the strengths movement

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The core of the strengths movement is shifting organizational development to find what’s right with people so everyone can be a superhero!


THE STRENGTHS ZONE

Working outside your strengths-zoneWhen you’re forced to perform a task in ways that don’t come naturally – it feels like you’re a square peg being pounded into a round hole.


Working within your strengths-zone When you’re given the freedom to perform a task in ways that come naturally – it feels like a perfect fit!

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Thousands of the world’s BEST organizations ingrain Gallup’s strengths science deep into their culture. Here are just a few:


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“At Rackspace Hosting we’re religious about using

Gallup’s StrengthsFinder 2.0.”

Robert Scoble Startup Liaison Officer Rackspace

“Every employee has their five strengths on the back of their badges and if you ever meet our chairman, Graham Weston don’t bring this up, because you’ll end up with a multi-hour interesting conversation about corporate culture, people, and how to build great teams using this system.”


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“At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization…”

New York Times Recommend the best business book you’ve read in recent years

Sheryl Sandberg Chief Operating

Officer Facebook Inc.

“Now, Discover Your Strengths, by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton. This book has been instrumental in how we think about developing talent at Facebook. ...we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make people fit around jobs. We focus on what people’s natural strengths are and spend our management time trying to find ways for them to use those strengths every day.”

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LEARNING HOW TO APPLY YOUR GREATEST TALENTS IN YOUR EVERY DAY LIFE IS A KEY TO SUCCESS!


PEOPLE WHO FOCUS ON USING THEIR STRENGTHS ARE 3X AS LIKELY TO REPORT HAVING AN EXCELLENT QUALITY OF LIFE.


WHAT DOES GALLUP RESEARCH SHOW ABOUT BUILDING ON STRENGTHS IN THE WORKPLACE?

are 6X as likely to be engaged in their jobs

People who use there strengths everyday

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People who learn to use their strengths every day have 7.8% greater productivity

Teams who focus on strengths every day have 12.5% greater productivity

Employees who receive strengths feedback have 14.9 lower turnover


Sales associates who received coaching on their strengths experience 11% higher volume per customer and a 6% higher closing percentage on average


WHAT DOES GALLUP RESEARCH SHOW ABOUT BUILDING ON STRENGTHS WITH TEAMS?

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MIRROR IMAGES: SIMILAR ACHIEVEMENTS WITH DIVERSE TALENT THEMES!

Elite Athlete #1 Elite Athlete #2 1st baseman 1st baseman

Pac 10 Pac 10 Olympic Gold Medalist (2) Olympic Gold Medalist (3)

All-American (2) All-American (3) NCAA Championship (2) NCAA Championship (3)

#1 – Achiever #1 – Belief #2 – Competition #2 – Relator #3 – Learner #3 – Harmony #4 – Analytical #4 – Connectedness #5 – Deliberative #5 – Adaptability


EVERYONE HAS TALENT Innate talent is something that’s always been with you. Examples of talent include:

! Says what they’ll do and they do what they say

–  Responsibility

! Loves to make lists of tasks to be completed and cross them off as they get them done

–  Achiever

! Loves measuring themselves against others so they can win

–  Competition

! Speaks up, takes charge and leads with authority

–  Command


WHAT IS WEAKNESS? !  Weakness is less a thing than it is a lack of natural talent -

–  Weaknesses show up when people are forced to perform tasks using methods that do not come naturally

It is difficult to impossible to achieve excellent results when there is a lack talent for performing a given task

Examples from your experience? Think of – time when you had to do something in a way that didn’t come naturally – what was the result?

!  Finally - does strengths-based development ignore weakness? –  No – in fact research shows that ignoring weakness doesn’t work

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Every leader must always invest in strengths.

“Leaders around the world are thinking about empowerment these days, and there is no more effective way to empower people than to see each person in terms of his or her strengths.”

Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D. Father of Strengths-Based Psychology

When leaders focus on individuals’ strengths, their employees are 8x more likely to be engaged.


Managers who predominantly focus on employees’ strengths reduce active disengagement to an astoundingly low 1%.


TEAM Dynamics The DNA of a Team

A team’s ability to achieve excellence by getting the most out of each team member’s natural talents will depend upon how well the team is able to:

!  Understand the talents/strengths of others !  Appreciate differences !  Use this information in a meaningful way

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CLIFTON STRENGTHSFINDER FULL 34 THEMES OF TALENT - DOMAINS OF TALENT

Executing Influencing RelationshipBuilding

StrategicThinking

Achiever Activator Adaptability Analytical

Arranger Command Connectedness Context

Belief Communication Developer Futuristic

Consistency Competition Empathy Ideation

Deliberative Maximizer Harmony Input

Discipline Self-Assurance Includer Intellection

Focus Significance Individualization Learner

Responsibility Woo Positivity Strategic

Restorative Relator


CLIFTON STRENGTHSFINDER FULL 34 THEMES OF TALENT - DOMAINS OF TALENT

Executing Influencing Relationship Building Strategic Thinking

Executing themes - these

Influencing themes are those that

Relationship themes – people with dominant

Strategic thinking themes help teams

Themes are about making

take charge, speak up and make

Relationship building themes bond

consider the bigger picture of what

things happen – getting things

certain the team voice is heard.

Individuals together to make the team

possibilities can be. These people

done! These themes influence others to bring them along!

greater than just the sum of its individual parts.

analyze and synthesize data to inform better decisions for all.

The domains shed light on how individuals contribute to groups or teams. It is useful to learn and understand these descriptions and how they apply to your team when thinking about how your talent impacts and supports the people you work with every day.


CLIFTON STRENGTHSFINDER MATRIX JOHN DOE - TOP 5 SIGNATURE THEMES OF TALENT


StrategicThinking

#1 Adaptability #4 Intellection

#2 Harmony #5 Input

#3 Developer

No one person can or should be all things – we just need to be more of who we were made to be!

BUILD ON STRENGTH

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CLIFTON STRENGTHSFINDER TEAM MATRIX TEAMS & POWERFUL PARTNERSHIPS


StrategicThinking

Deliberative X2 Communication Harmony X5 Analytical

Restorative X2 Activator Positivity X5 Learner X5

Achiever X8 Maximizer X2 Empathy X5 Input X5

Responsibility X4 Woo Connectedness X4 Context

Consistency X2 Developer X4 Intellection X3

Belief X2 Individualization Ideation X2

Adaptability X2 Strategic X2

Relator X2

Includer X3

20 5 31 19

Green = Unique Themes


CLIFTON STRENGTHSFINDER MATRIX MIKE MASON - TOP 5 SIGNATURE THEMES OF TALENT


StrategicThinking

#1 Responsibility #4 Communication

#2 Arranger #5 Significance

#3 Belief

No one person can or should be all things –

BUILD ON STRENGTH


CLIFTON STRENGTHSFINDER TEAM MATRIX THE LAWN PRO


StrategicThinking

Achiever – 4 Significance – 2 Empathy Strategic

Responsibility – 2 Communication – 2 Includer Learner – 2

Belief – 2 Competition – 2 Harmony

Arranger Adaptability

Consistency – 2

Discipline – 2

12 6 4 3

Green = Unique Themes

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NAME IT! CLAIM IT! AIM IT!

Receiving your report is a beginning – not an end…

Name It!

Read your Signature Theme Report (Top Five) and highlight or underline the words or phrases that best describe you.

Claim It!

Which of your five Signature Themes do you really “own”? How does this theme help you to be successful in your role?

Aim It!

How could you use this Signature Theme more intentionally?


There’s an app for that – so you can name your greatest talent every day – NAME IT!


Successful strengths-based organizations make strengths part of the language of their day. CLAIM IT!

Johnson County (KS) Community College displays strengths language throughout campus.

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Learn about how strengths apply specifically to various roles and responsibilities.

AIM IT!


THEME DYNAMICS


Use strengths development resources to strengthen partnerships and teams.

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PARTNERSHIPS & TEAMS

We can excel as Individual Stars but…

We find maximum potential in Powerful partnerships & Well Rounded Teams


Understand the importance of investing in strengths coaching.

“Everyone needs a coach.”

Eric Schmidt Executive Chairman, Google


Join the movement Start building a strengths-based culture at GallupStrengthsCenter.com

14,733,903 people around the world have taken StrengthsFinder

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