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Strengths Based Leadership
ALVAREZ PORTER GROUP EMPOWERING LEADERS IGNITING ORGANIZATIONSTIONS
Allison Porter
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Making extraordinary things happen by focusing on the strengths and potential in yourself and your team.
Strengths Based Leadership
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When you evaluate your own performance….
Do you think about what you did really well, or do you focus on the mistakes you made?
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When you focus on staff performance, what do you wonder about more…
What are they doing
right?
What are they doing
wrong?
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…Potential ++ & Strengths
…Potential -- & Weaknesses
As much or more than…
? ?
What might be possible if we focused on…
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What fears does it raise?
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Try your hand
• More room for improvement • More energy for learning • In your area of strength
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Looking for success
Positive Deviance study in Vietnam http://www.positivedeviance.org/about_pd/case_studies.html
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The case for strengths-based leadership
The Pygmalion Effect
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The case for strengths-based leadership
Las Vegas Housekeepers Exercise Experiment
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Gallup’s Strengthsfinder 34 Strengths n ACHIEVER n ARRANGER n BELIEF n CONSISTENCY n DELIBERATIVE n DISCIPLINE n FOCUS n RESPONSIBILITY n RESTORATIVE n ACTIVATOR n COMMAND n COMMUNICATION
n COMPETITION n MAXIMIZER n SELF-ASSURANCE n SIGNIFICANCE n WOO n ADAPTABILITY n DEVELOPER n CONNECTEDNESS n EMPATHY n HARMONY n INCLUDER n INDIVIDUALIZATION
n POSITIVITY n RELATOR n ANALYTICAL n CONTEXT n FUTURISTIC n IDEATION n INPUT n INTELLECTION n LEARNER n STRATEGIC
3 tools for focusing on strengths
1. Listen for potential 2. Reframe the negative 3. Follow the energy
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Listening for what is possible
Potential
Understand
Agree or Disagree
What’s another way to
look at it?
Reframe – to + 1. From you don’t want to what
you do want 2. Change the point of
comparison 3. Take a longer view
This is something
you do really well!
Follow the energy
Take your idea and run with
it!
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“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid” – Audre Lorde
Cast of “Grease” Einstein High School Peter Smeallie, Director
When you dare to be powerful
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What is one thing you could do to be more of a strengths-based leader? What questions or concerns do you have about focusing on strengths? What do you like about this way of leading?
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What is one thing you could do to be more of a strengths-based leader? What questions or concerns do you have about focusing on strengths? What do you like about this way of leading?
ALVAREZ PORTER GROUP ALVAREZPORTER.COM
What is one thing you could do to be more of a strengths-based leader? What questions or concerns do you have about focusing on strengths? What do you like about this way of leading?
ALVAREZ PORTER GROUP EMPOWERING LEADERS IGNITING ORGANIZATIONSTIONS
Allison Porter
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